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Strategy - Faculty & Research

overcome these problems and meet both journalistic and scientific standards. The results of four experiments covering crime, the economy, the environment, and gender equity indicate that editorial decisions have large effects on readers’... View Details
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
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Courses - Entrepreneurship

how executives should approach making critical decisions during the different phases of an entrepreneurial company's life. Starting from the vantage point of the individual , we will put ourselves in the... View Details
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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

recent changes in the US trade policy environment on small businesses. Drawing on a survey of more than 4,000 small businesses conducted between March 22 and 31, 2025, we examine firms’ knowledge, expectations, and decisions during a... View Details
  • January–February 2023
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Forecasting COVID-19 and Analyzing the Effect of Government Interventions

By: Michael Lingzhi Li, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Omar Skali Lami, Thomas Trikalinos, Nikolaos Trichakis and Dimitris Bertsimas
We developed DELPHI, a novel epidemiological model for predicting detected cases and deaths in the prevaccination era of the COVID-19 pandemic. The model allows for underdetection of infections and effects of government interventions. We have applied DELPHI across more... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Epidemics; Analytics and Data Science; Health Pandemics; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

transition? Would these strategic decisions be sufficient to steer SOHO China through new economic hurdles? Is 3Q enough to buoy SOHO’s performance and bring it into the next phase of growth? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2021
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What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

produce desired behaviors. That slows down decision making and execution. Employees (and, as we will see) customers are loyal only to a point. This is a culture designed to support one strategy. It may be a strategy built around a highly... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Institutions and Corporate Lobbying

“Institutions and Make-or-Buy Decision of Lobbying: The Role of Sociopolitical Legitimacy on Foreign MNEs’ Lobbying Internalization”

In this study, I examine how legitimacy comes into play in foreign MNEs’ make-or-buy decisions... View Details

Keywords: Institutions; Make V. Buy; Lobbying; Legitimacy; Corruption; Culture; Multinational Enterprise; United States
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Podcast - Business & Environment

series on adaptation, host Mike Toffel sits down with Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart of Probable Futures. They discuss how Probable Futures tools are educating decision makers to better understand how their organizations will experience... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

Administration. He looked most closely at decisions made during phase two clinical trials—the period when diseased patients are treated with the test drug and results are compared with patients randomly... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 14 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

other hand, always prided itself on its personal touch, empowering individual stores—even individual employees—to make decisions about products that emphasize high quality, healthy, and local foods. That decentralization, however, caused... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction. However, at a micro level, investment and continuation View Details
  • 16 Nov 2021
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How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

differently in the initial phases of the restructuring, pushing back against the French government and other shareholders by resisting the pressure for increased dividends, or more accurately gauging the likely acceleration of competition... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Feb 2021
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Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

course. His research and consulting work focus on the fundamental transformation of the energy industry in light of rapid technological change and climate change-related pressures. Professor Weiss is a faculty affiliate of BEI. In this interview with Rebekah Emanuel,... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Join a growing community of students and alumni committed to thoughtfully crafting their lives. The Overlooked Key to Successful Scale-Ups Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Rayport + More Info – Less Info Conventional wisdom says there are two View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Brian Knutson and Uma R. Karmarkar Although linked, researchers have long distinguished appetitive from consummatory phases of reward processing. Recent improvements in the spatial and temporal resolution of neuroimaging techniques have... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

predict that they will act ethically at the bargaining table.   2. Participating in the negotiation: During this action phase when negotiators are at the table, making decisions about offers, agreements, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Business History - Faculty & Research

Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision By: Laura Phillips Sawyer In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying... View Details