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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
enough data and information to do so. Plans, and the corresponding KPIs and other metrics that will empower your team to execute them, should be adjusted to address the company’s immediate needs and short-term goals, and communicated... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
interest in the subject was initially stimulated by the explosive growth of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The real value of Windows, we learned, was not about the product, per se, but the applications written by independent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
performance evaluations by describing the effects of implicit penalties (rewards), whereby workers ranked at the top (bottom) of objective performance rankings fail to receive the reward (penalty) due to management’s subjective... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
change to organizational change dilemmas associated with sustainability. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198704072.do Working Papers Individual Experience of Positive and Negative Growth Is Asymmetric: Global Evidence from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
What really fuels a boom-and-bust cycle in the modern global economy? It’s not always household debt, says a new paper that parses in-depth data across 115 countries. Instead, rising corporate debt may flash the clearest warning that a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
the data showed that customers tended to order a higher percentage of "should" items (like leafy greens) and a lower percentage of "want" items (like candy bars) the further in advance they placed an order. For a detailed account of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
Summing Up Personal Predictive Analytics: Should We Be Careful What We Wish For? The world of continuous monitoring of numerous sensors for machines and humans, limitless information storage capacity, and big data combined with rapid... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53281 Tournament Incentive Plans Incorporating Objective and Subjective Criteria: Implications for a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
also discussed the use of phones' location-tracking technology, as it pertained to advertising. It's been a subject of concern among privacy advocates, but not, apparently, among the majority of panel attendees. "Have you ever gone back... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Sloan Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many people today in the information technology world and in corporate boardrooms are talking about "big data." Many believe that, for companies that get it right, big data will be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
learning to predict which candidates will do best in a particular position. The question is, how much should companies weight this information versus the more subjective impression gleaned from job interviews? “Essentially firms [are]... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
they should open target data and compete on solutions—compounds and molecules addressing the targets. I agree. If we're going to get the breakthrough products we want at a development cost we can afford, we have to figure out the best... View Details
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
industry's rich array of data made it a prime subject for such a study. "Banks maintain customer data at a very fine grade level, and the government captures competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
it a week in advance rather than a day in advance of delivery. Indeed, the data showed that customers tended to order a higher percentage of healthy items (like leafy greens) and a lower percentage of unhealthy items (like candy bars) the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
it, students get a hands-on sense of what is unique about digital economics and business models, from new businesses like 3-D printing to "classics" like Facebook. They also do a deep dive into data analytics. "There are... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
data cover two field experiments run by a large stock-photography agency. We find that substantially reducing the requested amount generates a small increase in the settlement rate. However, for the same reduced request, a message... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
But technology has changed all that. “These always-on technologies mean that we’re always in constant interaction with others. We wanted to see if that is a good thing.” They spent a year compiling data from 600 small groups, running... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
No-action letters could be helpful tools, as they would allow regulators to assure lenders that new products, or partnerships, are legal and that no enforcement action will be needed. 4. Shine a light on bad actors with better data on... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
PublicationsEnterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions Through Big Data Author:Thomas H. Davenport Publication:FT Press, 2012 Abstract This book, an edited collection of research papers from the International... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne