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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Our results have important implications for understanding how feedback shapes gender gaps in self-assessments. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55540 The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 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
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
model’s correct and incorrect classifications, the cutoff point on the curve that matches true positives and true negatives, and the payoff matrix Wehunt and Morse construct. Students can then follow the link directly from their model to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
new market, meaning it could race up the experience curve and lock in a sustainable advantage vis-à-vis its competitors. That approach could be the underpinning of a big new-growth business. Putting It All Together By systematically...
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- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
attention has been given to how managers can effectively allocate work across tasks and time to improve workers' performance. In this paper, we use the learning curve framework to investigate how productivity varies within task and within...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Diffusion Curves Authors:Diego Comin, Bart Hobijn, and Emilie Rovito Periodical:Journal of Technology Transfer (forthcoming) Abstract This paper documents the sources and measures of the cross-country historical adoption technology (CHAT)...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
the method prepared future business leaders, however, Harvard faculty and administrators have long been aware of a nagging truth: learning how business operates and actually doing business are very different things. No matter how well MBAs were prepared, there was...
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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
to outcomes. We assessed the learning curve for a new cardiac surgical center using precursor events (incidents or circumstances required for the occurrence of adverse outcomes). Methods: Intraoperative precursor events were recorded...
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Martha Lagace
- 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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- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
There is a two-way learning curve between the traditional firms and those that are grounded in the Internet. Certainly the Internet-only operations have proved that online financial services are viable. The fact that fifty thousand people...
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by Susan Young
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
worth more. But often these contracts have sharp points at which the curve changes direction all at once, which can produce odd incentives. Even more strikingly, many of the compensation functions have jumps—sell just one more unit and...
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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
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
Users will learn how to produce and interpret demand curves and calculate the price elasticity of demand. The concepts of revenue, costs, contribution margin, gross margin, and net income will be introduced to inform profitability...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
curve in which the central bank can provide market participants with forward guidance on both future short rates and on future Quantitative Easing (QE) operations, which affect bond supply. Forward guidance on short rates works through...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Dimitri Vayanos Abstract—We present a model of the yield curve in which the central bank can provide market participants with forward guidance on both future short rates and on future Quantitative Easing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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