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  • 07 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

by a better product or a better method or a better organization or a better strategy. Schumpeter believed the exact opposite, and of course he was right. This is an extremely hard lesson to accept, particularly by successful people. But... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

existing methods such as including observed covariates, random effects, or fixed effects. We then apply the latent space approach to identify social influence on installation of mobile apps in a social network. We find that peer influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

that “Gathering direct and original facts is a tedious and dif cult task, and it is not surprising that such work is avoided.” For the 50th JAR Conference, we introduce a framework to help researchers understand the complementary value of seven empirical View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Profile

Maliha Khan

understand all aspects of business. How has your HBS experience shaped your career path? When I started at HBS, I thought I'd eventually work in consulting then return to my family's business. But going through the case View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Retail
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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

different effects or methods of action, trials essentially consist of monitoring patients for proper dosage, effectiveness, and side effects. Medical devices, meanwhile, can differ from each other in almost every respect, including how... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

will disagree about the optimal choice from a randomly selected available set. We provide an algorithmic method to compute these metrics in the case where the probability of a given feasible set is a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

to determine the importance of attributes, a willingness that extends to following explicit recommendations of online agents based on those attributes (Study 5).   Cases & Course MaterialsGenzyme's CSR Dilemma: How to Play Its HAND... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors: Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads to superior or deficient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

transpires within the larger, corporate context of Intuit, where founder Scott Cook has been attempting to transform the enterprise into a leaner, more innovative company. The case describes in detail the lean startup View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

become the hubs of the network. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

By: Edward McFowland III, Sandeep Gangarapu, Ravi Bapna and Tianshu Sun
We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing context, public... View Details
Keywords: Prescriptive Analytics; Heterogeneous Treatment Effects; Optimization; Observed Rank Utility Condition (OUR); Between-treatment Heterogeneity; Machine Learning; Decision Making; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
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  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

a firm's headquarters—for the presence of large, non-managerial individual shareholders in firms. These shareholders have a large impact on firms, controlling for selection effects. Course Research: Using the Case View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

the Panama Canal to make use of both conventional historical methods and the tools of quantitative analysis, The Big Ditch examines the impact of the Panama Canal on the Republic of Panama, the United States, and the world. Noel Maurer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

product used in econometrics, is a good example of this. “Our research plainly shows that value creation doesn't necessarily lead to value capture.” In cases where values are intermediate, we find that the firm prefers to open the core... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services
  • Profile

Andres Sarmiento

experience included the large diversity of our class, the many roles I could take, but mostly the case method. As an introvert, I need to put more effort into speaking up and expressing my opinions; the case... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services
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case of CORe participants , a Credential of Readiness from Harvard Business School Online. Certificates and credentials are delivered by mail to your home address after your final grade has been processed. How should I list my credential... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

organization to a new level. And at home, rebels are more engaged partners, parents, and friends. Packed with strategies for embracing rebellion at work and in life as well as illuminating case studies from a wide range of industries,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

be attributed to donor firms' concerns about the potentially negative consequences of scrutiny over outsourcing for themselves and for their affiliated candidates. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-103.pdf   Cases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace