Curves - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2003
News

All in a Day's Work

planned to stay in Boston after graduation; part of her learning curve has been getting up to speed on the ins and outs of state and local government, as well as zoning regulations and other hurdles to development that were nearly... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate

19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him... View Details

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Lara Hodgson

non-traditional route, Hodgson eschewed the venture capital option and raised $3 million from angel investors and friends and family. It may have resulted in a slower growth curve but it gave Hodgson more control. And Hodgson enjoys... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

we’re selling them Coke Zero, Jettas, and GTIs. We’ve grown up with them, and that experience gave us a leg up on the learning curve about this cohort’s acceptance of the Internet, instant messaging, and many other technologies. That... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

insignificant or a significantly negative association with future returns. In supplemental analyses, we show that these forecasts are also informative of the time-series variation in aggregate conditions: 1) for a representative firm, the slope of the conditional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2020
News

Post-Office

lives because they are actually able to put deliberate markers around their days and weeks once they get past the change curve of, "I’m actually working 100 percent remote." THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

from an aggregate perspective) and framed the issues surrounding non-zero-sum games (most business ones). Also, the concept of "learning curves" became an increasingly important tool for planning. The learning curve was first... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

to outcomes. We assessed the learning curve for a new cardiac surgical center using precursor events (incidents or circumstances required for the occurrence of adverse outcomes). Methods: Intraoperative precursor events were recorded... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

how he gets inside the standard economic paradigms and frees himself to think about them in ways that generate such groundbreaking ideas. BW: Well, so I was always disappointed in standard economic theory. This idea that there’s, you know, supply and demand View Details

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