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  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

the emphasis has shifted from collection to analysis,” he explains. “And that’s a sea change. It allows a small firm like ours to compete equally from an information standpoint with a giant cargo ship of an organization. That’s a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 09 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

being in second place, it’s a pretty good place to be.” Consumers end up paying more To study how pricing algorithms affect competition, MacKay and Brown collected detailed pricing data from five large, multicategory retailers selling the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

typically lease a large fraction of their assets, and for steel- and automakers that have large unionized workforces, which will give them greater leverage to renegotiate collective bargaining agreements. But Chapter 11 will be less... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 14 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

schedules and to avoid the possibility of more companies pulling out of the project. "We just hung on for dear life and moved as quickly as we could after they said yes," Margolis says. Collecting and processing data from a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

(coauthored with Joanna Radin), Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100, has just been released. The book collects views on the work and challenges of the agency from FDA officials past and present, as well as from executives... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health
  • 31 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

collection on an American consumer and how credit agencies share the information to determine proper credit risk and worthiness of a consumer. The American system as defined in this note can be contrasted against the lack of developed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

problem is that these managers don't know what metrics to measure or how to interpret the results. They may collect all manner of plausible marketing-performance metrics, from customer satisfaction to retention, but if these can't be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

calculations also indicate that book-tax conformity could reduce tax rates considerably, as a 15 percent tax on book-pretax profits (just for public companies) would provide the same amount of corporate tax revenues being collected today.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

firms they work in? Are they specific to the firms that have developed them; or are they stars because they have some intrinsically special qualities and abilities? We have looked at investment analysts in research departments of investment banks and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context, and then assesses its impact on its users. The platform studies facial and emotion recognition and can help uncover the racial bias in algorithms used by social... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

The Rankings Game

softened their official position and once again offered to cooperate with the rankings. Both assigned someone to forward online surveys to recent graduates and alumni, and to coordinate data collection from various departments and funnel... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Security Chief

luggage and screen passengers for traces of explosives and narcotics. Public transit systems deploy the company’s surveillance cameras. Homes and offices rely on GE’s security and fire alarm equipment. Exporters install the company’s tiny monitors to track containers... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

clear that inciting such animosity — and indeed hatred — among certain groups of Americans toward their fellow citizens will serve our country well. Certainly, history offers no such assurances. In fact, leaders who have risen to power by relying heavily on View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

from the ideal conceptions of community. Through a detailed case study of the UNICEF-IKEA Bal Adhikar Pariyojana (BAP), a grassroots initiative that seeks to advance child rights in India, this paper examines how traditionally disempowered community members learn to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

most challenging aspects of systems integration. August 2013 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role of Social Identity, Collective Identification, and Intergroup... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence By: Bernstein, Ethan, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer Abstract— People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social influence introduces both benefits (higher... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

repertory theater. Shannon O'Connell noted that our collection of field cases on learning to become a successful functional manager had the potential to be organized into an executive's "hero's journey." This set off a process:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

Eigenfactor scores are readily computed for collectives such as departments or institutions. We show that a collective's Eigenfactor score can be computed either by summing the Eigenfactor scores of its members or by working directly with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

scholars, and business historians. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gjones/papers/Jones%20%20Friedman%20Flyer.pdf The Future of Boards Author:Jay W. Lorsch ed. Publication:Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming This book is a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

proposition. It aims to explore effective curricular and programmatic responses as opportunities for MBA programs to innovate. The paper also aims to call for collective action across the business school field to effectively address these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne