Traffic - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

When participation costs are large relative to the volume of traffic an ad platform can offer, an advertiser may forego use of an ad platform that the advertiser otherwise finds profitable. Mergers between ad platforms can increase... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Jen Wong (MBA 2004)

wake up, read the news, and then check my traffic and see what’s happening on the Time Inc. sites.” News sources: “I’m on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Apple News all the time.” Print indulgence: Reading People magazine, a... View Details

Keywords: April White

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

series of labor-manager-owner conflicts—beginning with an air traffic controllers' strike in the United States in the 1980s—in which organized labor has suffered one defeat after another, often losing jobs in the process to more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

amazing for India. Falls are a leading cause of emergency calls, but traffic accidents are also a huge problem. India has only 1 percent of the world’s vehicles but accounts for 6 percent of the world’s View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

television advertising influences online shopping. We construct a massive dataset spanning $3.4 billion in spending by 20 brands, including measures of brands' website traffic and transactions as well as ad content measures for 1,224... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2017
News

Ask the Expert: On the Fly

couple of years will see more experimentation with baggage pricing. The success of Emirates is due in part to the fact that airline, airport, and air traffic control work together under one “boss” shareholder—ultimately owned by the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?

be the business person and think about the nuances of that, but there's also a ton of traffic coming by and I don't have limitations on how much money I can make." In other words, musicians today have massive potential to reach an... View Details

Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Music

Profile

Creighton Taylor

Accra news, weather, politics, and traffic. But one-on-one interviews dramatically changed their approach. “People don’t care about weather or traffic,” says Creighton. “The weather is always hot and humid; the traffic is always bad.” But... View Details

19 Sep 2019
News

Predicting Human Behaviors

gets—at CES and elsewhere—is “‘When will this be real?’ I tell them, ‘It’s real today.’” There are autonomous vehicles on the road, he notes. They aren’t driving through traffic in New York or Boston yet, but they will be. And when they... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

Q: If you were in charge, how would you monetize Pokémon Go? Shih: With so many people looking for spots to collect these things, the platform’s ability to pull traffic to particular locations is innovative and completely unique, and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 15

"co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2024
News

Crash Pad

available for specific conversion projects, which could also be helped by a move to loosen land-use laws at the state level. In October 2023, Boston launched generous property-tax abatement for conversions. City leaders hope the program will fill vacant buildings and... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

Google reviews (Google’s current tying strategy) or reviews from multiple platforms determined to be the best-performing by Google’s own organic search algorithm. We find that users prefer the version that does not exclude competitor content. Furthermore, looking at... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

that sold their products locally. From Heinz's perspective, these companies had not yet begun to tap the possibilities of a broad national market. By concentrating initially on growing cities, he intended to expand his young business westward across the country.... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

08 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

even if it leads to leftover merchandise, can result in an increase in net recovery on the cost value of the inventory sold. Their approach also recommends higher markdowns at the beginning of the liquidation process than is typical, in order to benefit from the higher... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

20 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.

FertilityIQ from our tiny kitchen table, we did it arm-in-arm with 90 talented and compassionate HBS sectionmates, who’d gladly walk in front of traffic to support each other's dreams. My sectionmates have been there to pick Deborah and... View Details

25 Jun 2014
News

Giving millions of students a new path to learning

them on YouTube?’ And I said, ‘No, YouTube is for cats playing piano. It is not for serious mathematics.’ Slowly the traffic picked up and you fast forward to 2008, 2009 and several tens of thousands of people were using the site every... View Details

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Campus Vehicular Access | About

Parking Attendant and walking their package to its destination or delivering to Central Receiving. Other arrangements for campus access must be made with Operations/Security personnel in advance. Exceptions may include some larger volume deliveries, such as Poland... View Details

07 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 7

making, and practice. We discuss important implications and offer suggestions for further research. Read the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0618 Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management Authors:Cynthia... View Details