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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
dot-coms, to security windows, to a PC for children, to a gadget that makes the knot in neckties. Nine corporations, including General Motors, Veridicom, Anderson Windows, FitSense Technology, and Lynx System Developers, sponsored student... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
professors were really fantastic,” she says. “What they are doing for a generation of students is going to have substantial impact on how financial management practitioners approach theory.” Left to Right: Professor Christopher Malloy,... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
Dow, General Motors, Nestlé, and Petrobras) and smaller entrepreneurial firms (such as the U.K.'s AIFS and China's BabyCare) undertake critical financing, investment, risk management, and incentive management issues to take full advantage... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Importantly, these past track records also predict divergent future real outcomes in patents, patent citations, and new product innovations. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/dimalco.pdf Paying It Forward: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a preferred group, we know little about the demand for such information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
Cyberattacks are surging: Accenture reports that cyber intrusions jumped by 125 percent, globally, in the first half of 2021 over the same period in 2020. And while all those data breaches and ransomware attacks have meant major headaches... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
considerations guiding financial reporting. Financial reports produced under the positive theory of GAAP would also generate information useful for equity valuation, but equity valuation is not predicted to be the primary objective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
occurs when an algorithm produces results that are systemically prejudiced due to erroneous assumptions in the machine learning process. ( + ) Code Switch The ability and propensity to adapt across shifting sociocultural contexts. Data... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
the customers who use them); adapts to new data as they become available; and has been applied to over 850 businesses acquired and integrated in one Fortune 150 company, ITW, which has consistently produced superior results. The book goes... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015
multivariate time series model to investigate the interaction between paid search and display ads and calibrate the model using data from a large commercial bank that uses online ads to acquire new checking account customers. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
disagree with this assumption, preferring tax policies based at least in part on a classic alternative objective: the principle of Equal Sacrifice. I generalize the standard model to accommodate this preference for a mixed objective,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
your book, examining the experiences of more than 4,000 women across four races and generations, what did the data conclude around the way forward? Jacqui: Our findings seem to anticipate many of the most positive developments in a year... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
practices and generate descriptive data to help assess performance. Platforms: Leading firms invest in an infrastructure—a set of development tools, technical standards, and working methods—to facilitate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
a lot of stuff over the two decades that passed, as we were trying to understand this better. But one of the things we realized, is that God doesn't create data in heaven, and then give it as a gift to mankind. Every piece of View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
incremental shifts towards sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book's distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
Financials Supplemental Financial Information 5-Year Data Summary CFO Letter Consolidated Balance Sheet Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Supplemental Financial Information page 1 of 2 Revenues As outlined in the letter from the CFO, at... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13
invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne