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  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

that explores the mechanisms’ distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms—within-firm productivity improvement shifts the productivity distribution rightward, while selection and market reallocation shifts the revenue and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

minimum wages to go up 13.5 percent a year. That’s an 82 percent increase in wages over five years. Higher wages will cause China’s growth engine to transition from low-cost exports to domestic consumption. My prediction is that over the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade
  • 23 Jan 2019
  • News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

so what is the mission? What is the tactical plan to get this done? It’s in four phases. The first phase is the analytical phase. This is where we take a blood sample, a muscle biopsy from my brother to dive into the details of what is... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

Using Excel 2007: A Step-by-Step Approach Harvard Business School Note 109-052 The objective of this note is to provide a set of easy, step-by-step guides for some analytical techniques that are useful in the analysis of cases discussed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

Ramanna Abstract—SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) negatively View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

research has consistently demonstrated the benefits of multicultural experience for individual-level creativity, its potential advantages for collective creativity in culturally diverse teams have yet to be explored. We predicted that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

analysts from Gradient Analytics and Banc of America face charges of stock price manipulation from Biovail, a Canadian pharmaceutical company. Gradient and BofA produced negative reports on Biovail's earnings quality. At the same time,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

use people analytics to improve how people work. These badges, and the multiple sensors inside of them, allow careful tracking of interactions in the workplace. Ben was kind enough to partner with us to help us measure, carefully and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

scholars to devote more resources to obtaining a fundamental understanding of contemporary and future practice and how analytic tools and contemporary advances in accounting and related disciplines can be deployed to improve the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

emphasize the value of being prudent with money. Additional analysis supports our predicted indirect effect of religiosity on spending through frugality. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54362 2018 The New... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-115 Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) negatively predict enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

from analytics when they haven’t declared it themselves. If marketers avoid those tactics, use data judiciously, focus on increasing trust and transparency, and offer people control over their personal data, their ads are much more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

data are often voluminous and unstructured, presenting analytical challenges for traditional tools that were designed for well-structured, quantitative data. We adapt methods from natural language processing and machine learning to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Local Hero

charge of the team’s bottom line. “The skeptics in town predicted that even if we raised enough private funds to build the park, we’d still fall on our faces, because we’d have $20 million in debt that no other team in baseball has,”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

develop a supply model to predict product development responses to changes in store locations. Through policy simulations, I discover that the firm uses outlet stores to serve lower-value consumers who self-select by traveling to outlet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

process innovation. Prior research has focused on the alignment between new technologies and the internal capabilities of firms to pursue them. I extend the investigation to include external capabilities as well. I develop a framework for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne