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  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

OTT, along with a recession, and use it to analyze cord-cutting behavior (i.e., dropping of cable/satellite subscriptions). We find high levels of cord cutting during this time and evidence that it became relatively more prevalent among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October–December 2022
  • Article

Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem

By: Mochen Yang, Edward McFowland III, Gordon Burtch and Gediminas Adomavicius
Combining machine learning with econometric analysis is becoming increasingly prevalent in both research and practice. A common empirical strategy involves the application of predictive modeling techniques to "mine" variables of interest from available data, followed... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Econometric Analysis; Instrumental Variable; Random Forest; Causal Inference; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction
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Cybersecurity Features of Digital Medical Devices: An Analysis of FDA Product Summaries

By: Ariel Dora Stern, William J. Gordon, Adam B. Landman and Daniel B. Kramer
Objectives:
To more clearly define the landscape of digital medical devices subject to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight, this analysis leverages publicly available regulatory documents to characterise the prevalence and trends of software and... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Medicine; FDA; Health Care and Treatment; Applications and Software; Safety; Cybersecurity; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 20 Feb 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Teck Ho, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business

    Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem

    Combining machine learning with econometric analysis is becoming increasingly prevalent in both research and practice. A common empirical strategy involves the application of predictive modeling techniques to "mine" variables of interest from available data,... View Details
    • 24 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

    demographics,” Fuller says. Acknowledge–and embrace–the prevalence female caregivers in the workforce. “Employers need to recognize that this demographic is going to become more important in the workforce of the future,” Fuller says.... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms

    By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
    Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
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    • 01 May 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

    unhealthy desire to control" (Judesther Marc). The very nature of servant leadership may influence its spread, according to David Livesley, who said, "Even if it is more prevalent than we think, we will never hear about it; what... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 2008
    • Report

    Survey Questionnaire on Environmental Management Practices: Summary of Results by Industry and Practices

    By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
    This document provides a summary of the results of a survey on Environmental Management Practices (EMP) conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara during October and November 2003. The survey was sent to 3255 facilities in 8 industrial sectors: pulp,... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Sectors; Surveys; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations
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    • 2022
    • Conference Presentation

    Organizational Competition: A Catalyst for Workplace Diversity and Desires for Uniqueness

    By: Samantha N. Smith, Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Katherine L. Milkman
    Competition is prevalent in organizations. For example, people often compete against their colleagues for status and recognition in the workplace or for opportunities for advancement. Workers also compete against others to get hired into organizations in the first... View Details
    Keywords: Status and Position; Organizational Culture; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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    • Research Summary

    A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Bollywood, Skin Color and Sexism: The Role of the Film Industry in Emboldening and Contesting Stereotypes in India after Independence

    By: Sudev Sheth, Geoffrey Jones and Morgan Spencer
    This working paper examines the social impact of the film industry in India during the first four decades after Indian Independence in 1947. It shows that Bollywood, the mainstream cinema in India and the counterpart in scale to Hollywood in the United States, shared... View Details
    Keywords: Film Industry; Bollywood; Tamil Cinema; Male Gaze; Social Impact; Stereotypes; Oral History; Film Entertainment; Gender; Race; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Business History; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India
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    • 15 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15

    circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions

    By: Lyra J. Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the work being performed. A thorough understanding of the... View Details
    Keywords: Modularity; Innovation; Product And Process Development; Organization Design; Design Structure; Organizational Ties; Mirroring Hypothesis; Industry Architecture; Product Architecture; Complex Technical Systems; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Product Development
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    • 07 Oct 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall School of Business

    • 21 Apr 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence

    Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
    • 10 Dec 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing

    Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Wesley Brandi; Publishing; Technology
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    A Taste For Obscurity: An Individual-Level Examination of 'Long Tail' Consumption

    By: Anita Elberse
    Because online retailers are often able to provide products in a more cost-efficient manner than bricks-and-mortar stores, online channels are characterized by a vast assortment of products. Proponents of the "long tail" principle recently argued that the demand for... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Distribution Channels; Product; Renting or Rental; Online Technology; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Retail Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Simultaneous Distinction, Democratization and Omnivorism Effects: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dynamic Symbolic Boundaries in Counterfeit Consumption Networks

    Sociologists have long examined the interactive relationship between social structure, taste and power.  This literature has overwhelmingly fallen into three, ostensibly competing, theoretical “camps”: Distinction, where high-status consumers use... View Details
    • November 2006 (Revised February 2007)
    • Case

    Microsoft Xbox: Changing the Game?

    By: Andrei Hagiu
    In September 1999, the Microsoft Xbox team was wondering which strategic choices would give it the best chance against the upcoming Sony PlayStation 2. Initially called "Project Midway" within Microsoft, the console project was intended to counter the perceived threat... View Details
    Keywords: Customers; Recruitment; Leadership; Management Teams; Multi-Sided Platforms; Two-Sided Platforms; Production; Strategy; Competition; Expansion; Video Game Industry; Texas
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