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- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
which has been the focus of her research during her yearlong study at HBS. She’ll present some of her findings at a June 29 workshop called “Capitalism and the Senses,” which “brings together scholars from... View Details
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medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
their houses to total strangers who may or may not be serial killers. Five VC firms rejected the nascent company’s pitch outright, and another two didn’t even bother to reply. “Investors must have thought, who would ever do this?” says... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26
(2011) Abstract Many studies have documented the benefits of religious involvement. Indeed, highly religious people tend to be healthier, live longer, and have higher levels of subjective well-being. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2011
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Most Popular Articles of 2010
also examining the tradeoffs inherent in a range of accountability mechanisms. Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Advocates of goal setting argue that for goals to be successful, they should be specific View Details
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- 26 Apr 2016
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April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote labor services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
motivates employees to execute strategy effectively. The value of these programs is measured by the value they create in the enterprise, not by how little is spent on them. An adequate technology infrastructure View Details
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Donation Experiment By: Katerina Linos, Laura Jakli & Melissa Carlson 2021 | American Political Science Review 115, no. 1 As government welfare programming contracts and NGOs increasingly assume core aid... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March–April 2023
- Article
Pricing for Heterogeneous Products: Analytics for Ticket Reselling
By: Michael Alley, Max Biggs, Rim Hariss, Charles Herrmann, Michael Lingzhi Li and Georgia Perakis
Problem definition: We present a data-driven study of the secondary ticket market. In particular, we are primarily concerned with accurately estimating price sensitivity for listed tickets. In this setting, there are many issues including endogeneity, heterogeneity in... View Details
Keywords: Price; Demand and Consumers; AI and Machine Learning; Investment Return; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Alley, Michael, Max Biggs, Rim Hariss, Charles Herrmann, Michael Lingzhi Li, and Georgia Perakis. "Pricing for Heterogeneous Products: Analytics for Ticket Reselling." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25, no. 2 (March–April 2023): 409–426.
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
School providing legal assistance to small businesses and entrepreneurs. Cyberlaw Clinic: A Harvard Law clinic program offering pro-bono legal services to individuals, small start- ups, non-profit groups and... View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
also an area of heavy growth. As the 1980s ushered in the rise of high-tech research and start-ups, Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. helped finance Cetus, an early biotech firm, as well as Intel, which created the first microprocessor.... View Details
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Ahmed Alimi
accountant" for the small business his mother ran in his home country, Nigeria. He continued to study accounting in high school, then pivoted to the actuarial sciences when he attended the University of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
begin with consumer electronics. That industry began with radio. Two enterprises commercialized, that is, brought the technology into public use: Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading U.S. electrical... View Details
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David Chan
lifetime, average winter temperatures in my hometown have warmed 5°F, and snowstorms are now anything but certain. Since 2001, 17 of the 18 warmest years on record have occurred. Having studied atmospheric... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
bookings drop by an estimated 12 percent in the time period studied compared to white, Black, or Hispanic hosts—just one way that Asians experienced broad discrimination after the pandemic’s origins in China were politicized, finds a new... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
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Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
study there. The two-year project included the creation of the Bloomberg Center, an extension of the building’s southern footprint and new south-facing entrance named to honor William Henry Bloomberg, the... View Details