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- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
States. Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic conditions) and IVF use at the national level from 2000 to 2011. We then analyzed the relationship at the state level through longitudinal regression models. The base... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
experimental and field data to examine how those who transgress rules may elicit more stringent penalties from those with the authority to punish them if they appeal to relevant norms endorsing leniency. Specifically, we test how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
1986) (Brick Tower Press) This book offers tested solutions to a variety of problems from a multitude of expert sources. The problems discussed are ones most frequently asked about by readers of the Small Business Digest (SBD) during the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
for soccer fans, FirstRowSports. The NFL’s as-yet-unnamed foray into online streaming will test the waters with an October 25 game only available online. The cable and telecom industry has taken note, evidenced by its heavy lobbying... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
2004, and Charley's pediatrician wants Tracy to come in to see her the next morning. Some of Charley's test results had just been faxed over from the neurologist, and they don't look normal. Tracy won't let her get off the phone. "No,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
organization. A Role for HBS Palepu: Is there anything in the curriculum or classroom we can do that might enhance some of the changes we've talked about? Lorsch: I think we can teach students more about what we mean by professional management and give them... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
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founder of Parallel Domain, a “synthetic data generation platform for training and testing the world’s next generation AI.” Before founding Parallel Domain, he worked at Apple where he focused on autonomous systems and simulation... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
can, under certain conditions, yield immediate post-break performance increases. We test our hypotheses using productivity data from 212 fruit harvesters collected over one harvesting season yielding nearly 250,000 truckloads of fruit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
Operations managers who are insulated from the marketplace must be forced to interact with people in units that are closest to customers. In all of these cases, it's up to senior managers to ensure that individuals work across organizational boundaries to View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
a series of meetings so as to surface and test a set of core strategic assumptions. Or they might assign someone to play the devil's advocate so as to ensure that a thorough critique and risk assessment of a proposal has been conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
concern. We also hypothesize that the effectiveness of such campaigns depends on the prior responsiveness of line managers. We test our hypotheses in the healthcare setting, in which problems are frequent. We use data on nearly 7,500... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
simulation is testing the student's understanding and ability to use the model, rather than testing whether the model accurately explains prices. In each of the four simulations that make up this lesson,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
Nestlé's flagship product in India—Maggi Noodles—citing excessive lead content per government lab tests. Nestlé disputes the government tests, noting that internal and third-party tests show the product to be safe. There is considerable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
(a) fosters a longer-term perspective and (b) widens the firm’s scope; and ecosystem creation. While much of the dynamic capabilities literature has focused on testing causal relationships between key performance variables and constructs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
intentional attempt to synthesize, abstract, and articulate the key lessons taught by experience. Drawing on dual-process theory, we focus on the reflective dimension of the learning process and propose that learning can be augmented by deliberately focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
concentration without co-locating. The final layer examines why some firms are more inclined to co-locate than others based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
rates, risk-aversion, and the influence of employers and neighbors. Download the working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-071.pdf Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond 'Basic Needs' Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
empirical data to test or challenge the "stylized facts" of economists, and sometimes learning from other disciplines new questions to ask in their own research. Q: Where is more research needed? A: The first answer is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
otherwise. We implement this test using a data set that covers the diffusion of 20 technologies for 23 countries over the past two centuries. We find that each of the relevant institutional variables that affect the costs of erecting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace