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- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
student-to-student interactions in face-to-face class sessions. The article outlines a technique used in an MBA marketing course for crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment of class participation during case...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
assessment and valuation technique used in the private equity industry. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218106-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-484 Institutionalized...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
staff must learn it. What were the variables you saw in a team learning a new technique or technology? What role did "psychological safety" play in the ability of a team to master an innovation? A: Most people think that the...
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- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
application performance management (APM) solutions lack robust anomaly detection capabilities and root cause analysis techniques that do not require manual efforts and domain knowledge. In this paper, we develop a density-based...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007
in the multi-agent settings in which these decisions typically occur. In this paper, we develop a model that extends neural nets techniques to capture recognition processes in groups of decision-makers. We use the model to derive some...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
David M. Upton Abstract This paper examines how a company sets out to build an operations-based advantage. In particular, we investigate the implementation of a lean operating system at an Indian software services firm. By studying the attempted introduction and impact...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
go off on your own and create something different. With consensus decision making and shared responsibility for everything, nobody feels responsible. In our book, we discuss how Japanese companies need to adopt more business unit...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
restaurants for a three-month period, with randomization done at the restaurant level to assess the overall impact of advertisements. We find that advertising increases a restaurant’s Yelp page views by 25% on average. Advertising also...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
give-and-take of reaching conclusions. For the research that led to writing Hedgehogs and Foxes, I relied on secondary sources, but focused on critical episodes. For example, Dwight D. Eisenhower characteristically favored consensus and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2000
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Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
studies in the early 1990s. This interaction intensified through their collaboration on the Moroccan Pilot. This incremental engagement process also enabled them to undertake a due diligence assessment of each other to View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016
November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky's representativeness heuristic. A decision maker View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
on its balance sheet leading to low levels of net debt. The case requires students to analyze performance using Modified Dupont Decomposition techniques to assess if firm performance is resulting from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
for a while The technique of continuous forecasting was there, we just needed to adopt and tailor it. continuous forecasting/budgeting/planning requires more effort to think about the future than the former once-a-year event." The...
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by James Heskett
- 18 Oct 2004
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The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
analysts perform is assessing the need for external financing to fund operations. Thus, analysts are already intimately aware of what financing needs a company is likely to have. Accordingly, in periods leading up to a need to go to...
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- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
demand information that the dealer obtains through the initial assessment and subsequent learning in the selling process. With the dealer's average net profit per car in the estimation sample being around $1150, the initial View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008
technical and economic competitiveness with petroleum-based polymers and conventional composites. We assess whether these developments also improve the environmental sustainability of biopolymers, by using a life cycle approach. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
I joined the company. The company's long history of success had led to a soft underbelly that manifested itself in a lack of discipline. The company was extremely values-centered, but its internal norms of consensus decision making,...
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by Bill George
- 26 Nov 2007
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Best Practices of Global Innovators
critical principles followed by companies that formed successful collaboration programs. What are these principles? A: First, firms must develop a collaboration strategy that is aligned to their business needs. At its heart, this requires View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2013
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Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
those questions are incredibly complex. Gupta and his colleagues solve them using a technique called "persistence modeling." Simply put (and the calculations are anything but simple), you first calculate the expected effect of...
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