Prediction - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

Boston predict which places might be violating public health regulations. And it is working with an education nonprofit in Watertown, Mass., Education Resource Strategies, to study how school districts spend money. "The outcome is that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

surprised by the design of the Apple Watch. Many told me is it not as aesthetically pleasing or distinctive as they would have predicted from an Apple product. If you put the Apple Watch in a lineup of its competitors, some people might... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

01 Dec 2022
News

The State of Play

where the business models, like the ideas behind them, are still expanding outward. Estimates by Grand View Research predict the industry will keep growing at a compound annual rate of 34 percent, at least through the next five years. The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43385 Harvard Business School Case 817-012 DataXu: Selling Ad Tech DataXu served marketers by buying digital advertising for brands using its demand-side platform. It sought a way to build a more View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

Default and Recovery Rates By: Bonsall, Samuel B., IV, Kevin Koharki, Karl A. Muller III, and Anywhere Sikochi Abstract—This study investigates whether rating agencies apply more stringent rating adjustments leading up to issuer defaults and whether the adjustments... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes, we show that this View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

commercial avoidance through zapping along with eye tracking on 31 commercials for nearly 2,000 participants are used to calibrate the model. New, simple metrics of attention dispersion are shown to strongly predict avoidance. Independent... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

Abstract Stigmatized minorities may have an advantage in persuading majority group members during some face-to-face interactions due to the greater self-presentational demands such interactions elicit. In contrast to models which predict... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2021
Case

Aster DM Healthcare: Budgeting for a Crisis

By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy Klopfenstein

In April 2020, Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a network of clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies in the Middle East and India, must create her company’s budget for the 2021 fiscal year in light of the onset of Covid-19. The pandemic had... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Judgments; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost vs Benefits; Budgets and Budgeting; Health Pandemics; Health Industry; Asia; India; United Arab Emirates; Dubai

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July 2010 (Revised December 2011)
Background Note

Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Pricing and Profitability Analysis

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery

Pricing is one of the most difficult decisions marketers make and the one with the most direct and immediate impact on the firm's financial position. This toolkit will introduce the fundamental terminology and calculations associated with pricing and profitability... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Price; Profit; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Measurement and Metrics; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry

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November 1999 (Revised July 2003)
Case

Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen

Pre-Paid Legal Services' business model reveals two key issues--managing the sales force and sales growth and managing claims. Students analyze the economics of the business and consider how to measure firm performance, how to evaluate and reward the sales force, and... View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Salesforce Management; Marketing Strategy; Accrual Accounting; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Insurance; Business Growth and Maturation; Insurance Industry

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23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

be able to do computational prediction for creating a top 20 list of antisense oligos. With those, we can test them against his cell line. So as part of the biopsy, in phase one, we establish a cell line. What that is, is it’s taking... View Details

16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

other, are open-source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by comparison. The mirroring hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with distinctly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

02 May 2017
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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

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

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