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- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system maintenance costs, and hence to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
between the firm and an outside investor. A common assumption in the signaling game literature is that beliefs among the participants in the game are refined using the Intuitive Criterion refinement. Our experimental results provide evidence that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess disapproval for several forms of kidney markets and to understand why individuals disapprove by identifying factors that predict disapproval,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
Kominers, and Ross Rheingans-Yoo Abstract—This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
behavioral ethics as the study of systematic and predictable ways in which individuals make ethical decisions and judge the ethical decisions of others that are at odds with intuition and the benefits of the broader society. By focusing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
end-users as the basis for high-speed, digital, interactive, multimedia services." The scenarios, said moderator Scott Bradner, senior technical consultant at Harvard, were not so much predictions as a means to evaluate the next... View Details
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
bit before you do your own thing?” When Rayport’s class convened in Aldrich Hall to discuss the Amazon case, Bezos sat in the first row and listened as most of Kilar’s classmates predicted the likelihood that Amazon would fail.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
look, with a considerable degree of instability, a variety of populists, and an incredible degree of unpredictability. That wasn’t true 30 years ago, when everything was secure and predictable in the United States, and Latin America was... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
organizations, or society) by leveraging customer data fairly and transparently? HBS: Ayelet Israeli, Marvin Bower Associate Professor Eva Ascarza, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Digital Emotions Lab How can we capture, View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
illnesses, positioning themselves in the mainstream,” predicts Debora Spar. “Venture capitalists will fund research into stem-cell science that runs in accordance with the wishes of society. Firms will cluster where the rules are... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
innovations before bringing them to market. The general lesson for any company that depends on distribution partners: Be wary. As Zhu told the audience at Future Assembly: “Before you build your business model around platforms, you need to think about how to minimize... View Details
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
International ICST on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications (AMMA 2011) held in New York, August 22-23, 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions covering topics such as school choice, markets for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
development projects, some with predictable sales results, others more risky. The former pay for the company's daily bread and butter and fund R&D on future blockbusters. Inverness Medical Innovations, for example, is following... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
general expectation that in a down economy many donors of necessity will be less generous just when demand for services from nonprofits will be on the upswing. As a result, several panelists predicted that many smaller nonprofits will... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
very good at predicting either supply or demand in the oil industry," Stobaugh observes. "A little less than two years ago the price of oil was $10 or $11 a barrel. Now it's up around $30. Very few people View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests handwashing is habitual, we design, implement, and analyze a randomized field experiment aimed to test the main predictions of the rational addiction model. To reliably measure... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- March 2011 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Cree, Inc.: Which Bright Future?
By: David J. Collis, Mary Furey and Matthew Shaffer
After its founding in the late 1980s, Cree Inc. quickly grew into a major player in the emerging LED market. By 2007, technological improvements in LEDs had made them suitable for TV, computer, and mobile "backlighting"; and concerns over global warning led to calls to... View Details
Keywords: Cree; LEDs; Lighting Market; Clean Tech; Energy Policy; Semiconductors; North Carolina; Business Growth and Maturation; Forecasting and Prediction; Innovation and Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology Adoption; Electronics Industry; Green Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; North Carolina; Raleigh
Collis, David J., Mary Furey, and Matthew Shaffer. "Cree, Inc.: Which Bright Future?" Harvard Business School Case 711-457, March 2011. (Revised February 2014.)
- January 1999 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Advanced Technologies, Inc.
By: Thomas R. Piper
The CEO of a semiconductor equipment manufacturer is assessing the financial forecasts and financing plan prepared by the chief financial officer. Continued rapid growth will create substantial financing pressures, especially if profitability fails to recover and/or if... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Earnings Management; Financial Condition; Financial Reporting; Risk and Uncertainty; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development; Crisis Management; Profit; Financial Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Piper, Thomas R. "Advanced Technologies, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 299-042, January 1999. (Revised June 2006.)
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
coupling predict IT agility—defined as the cost of making changes to software applications. The measure of coupling that best predicts agility is one that captures all direct and indirect connections between... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel