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- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
“It’s a very lengthy process, and we continue to look to bring on new partners.” While the refugee and asylum-seeker algorithms have a particular application, Paulson says the methodology can be adapted to solve resource allocation... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
successful technological innovation—but whose mindsets often clash. The authors dub these two types stewards and creators. An organization's stewards are usually managers; their goal is the careful allocation of the organization's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
selected through exit early in their careers, made time allocation decisions such as delayed marriage, and tended to migrate to places that were conducive to innovation. Father's income was positively correlated with becoming an inventor,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Authors:Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
chosen to designate an individual as a business leader (i.e., CEO), regardless of specific title, if he or she was regarded as the primary and, in some cases, sole leader in setting the company's direction, allocating resources, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we interpret a number of tournament design policies (number of competitors, prize View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
organizational coherence in support of the strategy Developing and managing human capital Allocating resources in alignment with the strategy Using performance data for decision making and accountability Here's how these play out on the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset ownership. In this paper, we draw on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
your non-tangible assets to show appreciation, which might be as mundane as providing staff with recreational opportunities to relieve stress. Showing that you care can sometimes make a critical difference in the organization’s ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Rotemberg Abstract A model is developed where firms in a financial system have to settle their debts to each other by using a liquid asset. The question that is studied is how many firms must obtain how much of this asset from outside the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
industry factors. The evidence on these interrelationships and the importance of multinationals to local economies suggests that global firms may be an important channel for transmitting economic shocks. This evidence also sheds light on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
"treated" with electronic monitoring is 13% (40% lower). We convince ourselves that the estimates are causal using peculiarities of the Argentine setting. For example, we have almost as much information as the judges have when deciding on the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s local circumstances. Our research site switched from its traditional decentralized hiring model... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
their secret sauce, and they are open sourcing it because they can benefit from others improving on these technologies. They also realized that their core asset is really the network and the infrastructure, not so much the algorithms. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
book value, it is seeing something of greater worth than the physical assets recorded in financial accounts. Though the dot-com bubble burst, the exuberant and often irrational funding of technology-savvy entrepreneurs pointed to the same... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
so that vast amounts of data can be captured and analyzed in order to improve the allocation and use of natural resources. Working with Microsoft and Cisco, Living PlanIT is doing this through its Urban Operating SystemTM—a unified,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Author:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract For the classical marriage model (introduced in Gale and Shapley, 1962) efficiency and envy-freeness are not always compatible; i.e., fair matchings do not always exist. However, for many, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
proprietary trading. In response, many financial institutions reduced their scope and reshaped their portfolios. In this context, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S. by assets since 2011, which had successfully weathered the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
the effective allocation of work. Cases & Course MaterialsSotheby's & Christie's Inc. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and C.J. WiseHarvard Business School Case 710-412 The fine art auction business has remained a duopoly over its 250... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne