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- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
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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- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
economist E.R.A. Seligman supported RPM as a legitimate tactic to protect small businesspeople and enhance non-price competition. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
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
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
impact on the link between diversity and bottom-line performance. As expected, minorities' negative assessments of their team's learning environment precipitate a negative relationship between diversity and performance, irrespective of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
unite partners' objectives for creating a flexible supply chain; benchmark performance against other retailers; and evaluate and manage new technologies. Raman and Fisher provide specific, detailed metrics and techniques that can be used...
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- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
2014, Longbow was deciding whether or not to maintain its position in NiSource. To make this decision, students must perform a discounted dividend analysis to determine the fundamental value of NiSource's stock. Students are also asked to perform a sum-of-the-parts...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Glaeser, William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto Publication:Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Consider the Chinese...
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by Danielle Kost
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential employees. In one of the first...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Mintzberg argued that strategic planning techniques (such as scenario planning) do not work well for organizations because they typically fail to engage business managers and remain detached from everyday action. But Mikes says the...
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- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Klaus, Flip Klijn, and Markus Walzl Abstract Using a bi-choice graph technique (Klaus and Klijn, 2009), we show that a matching-for-a-roommate market indirectly dominates another matching if and only if no blocking pair of the former is...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
should be a blessing in negotiation, of course. But picking the best possible deal takes careful planning. The set of techniques outlined here will put you on the right path. Beyond Batnas According to basic negotiation theory, Jim's...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
architecture. In particular, we draw upon modular systems theory to develop and test a series of propositions about the impact of component coupling on the cost of IT change. Our methods make use of “Design Structure Matrices” (DSMs), a novel network analysis View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
both an effective societal contributor and an economic powerhouse. Q: What other research are you working on? A: There are three projects I am quite excited about. My colleagues Rohit Deshpande, Lynn Paine, and I are launching a study of global business View Details
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by Manda Salls
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
consensus on best practices. They suggest six overall goals for a strategic exit interview process and describe tactics and techniques to make it successful. Among their recommendations: Have interviews...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (HBS MBA '03) was excelling at his job—selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals—when the company's 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new approach, Klump was expected to make an...
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by Garry Emmons
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
in a population. This chapter advances a historical comparison of these two methods-individual case reports and population meta-analysis-and draws attention to the fragmentation of the institutional basis for assessing pharmaceutical...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
is kryptonite to the real estate market, and I don't see an oversupply situation," he notes. Nor do other market insiders, whose consensus assessment is that new construction has not run ahead of market...
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- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
powerful machine learning technique known as Thompson sampling to address the challenge of balancing the exploration-exploitation tradeoff under the presence of inventory constraints. Our algorithms prove to have both strong theoretical...
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Carmen Nobel