Generalized Additive Model - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

on the general domain R by strengthening independence of irrelevant objects in two ways: in addition to requiring that the chosen allocation should depend only on preferences over the set of available... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

our first visit, Sr. Director of Technology Soren Kristiansen walked us through the LEGO Group’s efforts to develop the next generation of blocks. Their team is working in parallel on bio-based and recycled plastics, iterating on... View Details

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Field Course: Go to Market Sales Playbook Field Study - Course Catalog

company’s product. Too often, students graduate from HBS, raise capital and then investigate how to sell their company’s product or service. In this course, students are expected to experiment with different sales models and create a... View Details

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

retail space checked two major boxes. However, it was the ethos of the company and what they stood for that had Krantz clicking submit on her internship application. “In addition to being one of our vendor partners at S’well, Dick’s... View Details

Keywords: Retail

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

strength and performance, with the goal of preserving and extending patients’ independence and functionality. Blum, who has served Cytokinetics in various roles since its launch in 1998, is quick to point out that the company’s business View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

22 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles

sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change. Addressing society's rapid move to digital platforms, Dean Datar said, "As you look at some of the challenges that... View Details

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

in 2022, Wu and Clough saw a striking connection between the Las Vegas Strip and the digital platforms they had studied over the past decade. “People visit Las Vegas for the sense of hustle and bustle, which is generated by the presence... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

kinds of systems we see as being very effective, in that they're not intrusive…and the value you get back far outweighs the expense of clicks," he said. Eisenmann also asked participants if the advertising revenue model will... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006

predictive and prescriptive implications, this theory contributes to the general notion that pricing might affect as much as capture perceived value. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-055.pdf Capital Structure with Risky Foreign... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
News

Mission Possible

action,” she adds. Of course, many alums will continue to follow the more traditional path of doing well professionally before taking up social entrepreneurship in later life. A generation of economic prosperity has made it possible for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

filing of the 13D. Informed traders find it profitable to concentrate their trades with a leaking broker because the loss due to the information leakage is more than compensated by the gains derived from trading on the information View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2018
News

Case Study: Tip the Scale

find another way to scale an assembly-line process? The Answers: Has Walden considered an Amazon approach, with additional procedures for a customer’s second and possibly third choices, in case inventory does not match a customer’s first... View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

general manager of Special Services for NYNEX, responsible for servicing New England's largest corporate customers. Later that same year, she was named general manager of Access Markets, Marketing, and... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Reforming Company Boards

exceed analyst expectations. Businesses do not grow that way. If they’re managed well, they grow incrementally, with minor setbacks. The model that we have come to rely on — that companies’ earnings grow smoothly — is just not right. Do... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

demand for the various allergy products, which included several brands and package quantities, while modeling algorithmic price competition by the firms. When compared with a simulation in which each firm exhibited traditional (symmetric)... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

Portrait Project

Nathalie duPreez

otherwise. I am fortunate that I have had the encouragement and opportunities to live by his advice. Yet, just five miles away from where I grew up, children do not have fathers to make them "wings," nor role models to inspire... View Details

28 Feb 2022
News

Equal Partner

realized she could do more to disrupt the traditional investment model from the outside. At the time, Aditya was already working with Republic, an online investing platform. The company, which launched in 2016, offers investment... View Details

08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at... View Details