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- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
years, Turkasset has been ahead of the curve in avoiding a government crackdown—with a customer complaint rate of only 2 to 3 percent. (For context, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the United States receives more than 6,000...
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- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
other stakeholders to be abused Mr. McMillon has taken a first step to protect capitalism.” Nicolas T marked him Grade A. “He is ahead of the curve and by taking such decisions he will remain ahead.” Bolanie raised an interesting point...
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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few...
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- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
very much of their profits in new technologies, instead returning profits to shareholders or holding cash? Or is too much of our innovation devoted to "cool apps" that actually reduce productivity? Yet others still argue for patience. There is a learning...
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- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
trying to avoid. It’s alleged that pressure was increasingly being applied by top management to meet cost and delivery targets. Sales had done a great job selling planes several years out at prices based on costs that it was thought would eventually be achieved as the...
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- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest Over Colgate?
mean and the distribution around that, and then look at the overall shape of what we get, and determine whether we are actually getting something that looks like a realistic demand curve or not,” Israeli explains. When the GPT prompt...
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- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Black’s original conjectures, and the author highlights refinements and additions to the original list. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50338 November 2015 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Influence of Experience and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
again the presence of a lead firm acting as a knowledge integrator. In this case, the lead company is IKEA's largest European supplier. The firm developed a way to make high-quality curved laminates for the Swedish retailer, and continues...
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- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
changes be brought about slowly--one model shows an adoption curve ending in 2020--or with more of a big-bang approach? There appeared to be general agreement that the time for action is now. "I believe that every participant left...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
forces. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1413775 Repetition of Interaction and Learning: An Experimental Analysis Authors:Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract The learning View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
Campus roads are strategically curved so that no extended stretch of asphalt is visible from any point on campus. Such visual shielding of the bystander's perspective helps provide "as much domestic feeling as [is] reasonable"...
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- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
representative firm, the slope of the conditional expected return curve is more positive in good times, when expected short-run returns are relatively low; 2) the model-implied forecaster of aggregate returns exhibits modest predictive...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
need to know more than ever how consumers are redefining value and responding to the recession. Price elasticity curves are changing. Consumers take more time searching for durable goods and negotiate harder at the point of sale. They are...
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by John Quelch
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
passed along the knowledge it took him years to discover, Chandra's learning curve was shortened; Chandra in turn shortened the period for Reddy to learn certain aspects of entrepreneuring, and Reddy quickened Majmudar's learning process....
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
insignificant or a significantly negative association with future returns. In supplemental analyses, we show that these forecasts are also informative of the time-series variation in aggregate conditions: 1) for a representative firm, the slope of the conditional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when...
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- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
organizes the model’s correct and incorrect classifications, the cutoff point on the curve that matches true positives and true negatives, and the payoff matrix Figel constructs. Students can then follow the link directly from the model...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
from an aggregate perspective) and framed the issues surrounding non-zero-sum games (most business ones). Also, the concept of "learning curves" became an increasingly important tool for planning. The learning curve was first...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
between 1995 and 2007. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to determine the relative impact of key factors on operative time. Explanatory learning curve models were generated, and complication data were analyzed to...
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Martha Lagace