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- 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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
lackluster. Able to deploy all the tools along the capital curve of impact investing, which if any is optimal for Anudip? The case recounts the transition of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam, from the Omidyar Family... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
TQM, which have worked in other sectors of the economy, without thinking about what's different about health care in terms of the knowledge base. Amy Edmondson, Richard Bohmer, and I did a study looking at learning curves in health care.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
declares Brierley. "Hal Brierley has been ahead of the curve on many great marketing ideas," says Professor John Deighton. "He pioneered database marketing when he founded Epsilon, and now he is making permission e-mail marketing work. My... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
continue mitigating those risks and advancing the technology?” The government is in the best place. They have all the testing. And while it will take much longer done by government, we’re still riding down that cost curve with chemical... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
where the business models, like the ideas behind them, are still expanding outward. Estimates by Grand View Research predict the industry will keep growing at a compound annual rate of 34 percent, at least through the next five years. The origin of that growth View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
confidence in security measures. In the meantime, firms must be careful not to push their customers into a realm where they are not comfortable. Two-Way Street There is a two-way learning curve between the traditional firms and those that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
For one thing, Black hosts were underrepresented in the data that was used to train the algorithm. What’s more, says Zhang, societal bias may result in different demand curves for Black-owned properties versus white-owned ones. Renters... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
Applegate, Pivot for Equity: Lessons from Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures, based on her 2020 case, “Pivotal Ventures: Bending the Curve on Women’s Power and Influence.” The HBS Club of Connecticut (HBSCT), together with the HBS Club of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
chains and people analytics to artificial intelligence-based models and automated biotechnology research, organizations further along the digital curve are responding differently than those still wondering how to evolve. The digital... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 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
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne