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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
returns across time horizons exhibit strong return predictability up to three years ahead and produce an aggregate equity term structure that tracks economic conditions. The implied term structure is upward sloping during normal or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
policy instruments, and defaults. On the other hand, understanding the precise mechanisms underlying consumer losses is essential to predicting the impact of mechanism policies aimed primarily at reducing specific frictions or mental gaps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
predicted by the theory. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/VCRiskReturn59.pdf 2006 Harvard Business Review Health Care's Service Fanatics: How the Cleveland Clinic Leaped to the Top of the Patient-satisfaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
match between firms, managers, and incentives using a new survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital, on their compensation schemes, and on the firms they work for. The data is consistent with the equilibrium correlations View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2024
- Supplement
ReNew (B): A New Direction
By: Gunnar Trumbull and Malini Sen
The global renewables sector was in a slump, but the Indian market was booming. India’s largest renewable electricity generator, ReNew, faced a dilemma: it traded on the Nasdaq in New York, but saw huge opportunity in the Indian market. In response, CEO Sumant Sinha... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Trends; Transformation; Private Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Energy Industry; Asia; India
Trumbull, Gunnar, and Malini Sen. "ReNew (B): A New Direction." Harvard Business School Supplement 724-032, February 2024.
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
Associate Professor of Business Administration. David B. Yoffie: Software can ensure stability in turbulence Marc Andreessen famously said about a decade ago that “software is eating the world.” For most technology-intensive companies today, that View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
outcomes are now visible. The trajectory Afghanistan is now on pays too little attention to new enterprise and job creation and is predictably dismal. The alternative scenario I've described has a brighter outcome. It amplifies the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- Web
Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library
system that would more precisely predict the immediate availability of planes for combat. Quartermaster Advanced ROTC, 1942. HBS Archives Photograph Collection. Building off the success of the wartime schools, HBS established the Advanced... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
growing list of chores. With names like “Clean” and “Shiny,” they mop and scrub floors, disinfect handrails, vacuum carpets, and pose for selfies. Behind the scenes, the airport is adopting a predictive maintenance approach to cleaning.... View Details
- December 1993 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Medical Products Co.
By: Robert H. Hayes
In early 1990, the company is contemplating changes in its European plant network for producing hypodermic products, including the total production capacity to be provided, the number and location of plants over which to spread this capacity, and which products should... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Production; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Europe
Hayes, Robert H. "Medical Products Co." Harvard Business School Case 694-065, December 1993. (Revised March 1995.)
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
at risk of cancelling health insurance coverage within two months, the researchers found. Almost one in five, 18.9 percent, predicted they’d be able to keep paying premiums for no more than two months. Another 13.2 percent were unsure how... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
superiority or inferiority of a given race (Gannon, 2016; Goodman, 2003; Kolbert, 2017), the color line persists as an enduring social issue in the United States. Over 150 years post-emancipation, the wealth gap between blacks and Americans of other racial backgrounds... View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
predictably difficult situations need to understand that human judgment is still one of the most important tools. Company leaders need to offer better employee training on all these points. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
that/ done that is also beneficial. At the end of the day, you’re going to find an internship. If you are skeptical and need further reassurance beyond my optimism, imagine the above meme in Oprah’s voice. Boston Winter After 9 months of staying here, I feel that the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
for her innovative research and teaching on the business of health care, Herzlinger has long predicted the unraveling of managed care in the United States, along with the rise of consumer-driven health care and health-care-focused... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
wealth weakly predicts happiness. “It’s okay to be money-focused,” says Whillans. “But beyond a certain point, the amount of money you have has little bearing on happiness levels.” Finding quality time in an already hectic schedule can... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
products—and more likely to indulge in treats. Why? “You did something good for the environment,” Karmarkar says, “so you can have a cookie.” It was easy to believe Bill Gates in 2012 when he predicted that Sal Khan’s (MBA 2003) 2006... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
predictable irrationality in citizens and consumers by "nudging" them by means of economic incentives to act in ways that regulators believe are in citizens' best interests. Lest we underplay the significance of this or somehow... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne