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- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
boom. Retail investors—who buy shares directly through websites like Robinhood rather than investment firms or employer-sponsored plans—snapped up stocks that appeared to have poorer prospects under traditional metrics. Remember the View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance (Harvard Business Press). As a practical guide, The New Science of Retailing helps retailers mine their sales data to identify and... View Details
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
Media outlets large and small have adopted digital paywalls to augment dramatic declines in print revenues, but given their negative effect on website traffic (and, in turn, online advertising), are paywalls an effective sales strategy? A... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- What Do You Think?
What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?
supplanted job priorities. No data was provided, but the impression left by the article was that because so many good people have left Amazon, it pursues either intentionally or unintentionally what can be called a low-retention strategy... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that is more detailed than the US Census data economists typically examine. In addition, they relied on a database called the Billion Prices Project, which Cavallo first developed as a Ph.D. student at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
of experimentation. Taking all these factors into account, a startup can create dozens of ads within just a few days, and learn quickly and cheaply what is most effective to attract suppliers. Uber, for instance, made extensive use of View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?
Online Micro Data. Early in the pandemic, Cavallo says, he thought stockouts would ease within a few months. “The composition of the stockouts changed over time. The temporary ones, which are visible in empty shelves or out-of-stock signs... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
process and then understand how it works is very difficult, however. Gross showed some creativity in finding an innovative way to do just that. His study looked at graphic design competitions that take place via online platforms that help... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject to fewer short-termist pressures. Our results show that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
intra-firm spillovers (internal agglomeration economies) and geographically bounded inter-firm spillovers (external agglomeration economies) on firms' location strategies. Using data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
the example of an online retailer who suddenly sees a monthly shopper stop buying for two months. “Customers just stop using the service but don’t have to tell the company.” In order to manage churn, companies typically use machine... View Details
- 10 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle
closely, the researchers conducted an online survey of nearly 600 people in the United States, asking them to recall their social interactions the previous day and categorize them into categories like stranger, acquaintance, friend, or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
so far). “In order to collect this data, we had to create our own operations, mostly at the London School of Economics,” says Sadun. Over time, the researchers employed more than 100 graduate students, overseeing them with quality and performance measures to ensure the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
contribution is tax-deductible in the contribution year, but both principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes the information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
Initial Offer Precision and M&A Outcomes. Their research builds on several previous social psychology studies showing that people place more value on precise numbers than on relatively round numbers. People tend to assume, true or not, that someone must have... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
year, an experiment can explain why it happens. "Field data will tell you that a mouse went over there," says Teixeira, who often uses CLER's infrared eye tracker to study how people respond to online... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
based on a large online survey and was cowritten with Boston College Professor Lucas Coffman and Boston University Professor Keith Marzilli Ericson. Understanding the aspirations of non-binary people Relatively little research has been... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding