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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
while others turned them in the direction of travel. The discovery of such unspoken preferences among consumers led the company to make important changes in the development of its navigational system. The... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
the conventional financial system and the real economy. Publisher's link: http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.29.2.213 May 2015 Journal of Public Economics De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
to have scaled their software startup, InsightSquared, to $2 million in revenue and secured an $8 million round of venture capital. However, they disagreed on the path ahead, specifically on the sales and marketing plan. Shilmover View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
The facts of the ever-widening skills gap are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the US, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And judging by the $1 trillion spent on IT services in 2018 and the... View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
information on sites such as Yelp, eBay, and TripAdvisor. The framework relies on an algorithm set up to tackle bias inherent in reviews by taking into account reviewers who vary in accuracy, stringency, and by reputation. Luca cowrote the paper, View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the same applications to benefit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
situation where a smaller number of peers elect to share, and this would end up negatively affecting download speed. We show that this is not the case. It turns out that the behavior of peers is independent of the state of broadband technology. Therefore, only the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model intermediaries with production capacity. We also prove that substitutability is preserved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
The way Norwegians may want to buy clothes is very different to the way Spaniards are going to buy clothes, not only for the fashion but also for their preferred mode of payment, delivery, etc. Secondly, I found the concepts that we... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Profile
Sarah Zia
cultural norms for how to work in groups. My leadership style constantly flexed based on whom I was teaching or working with. While some people were more nervous and preferred gentle coaching, others appreciated “tough love” and View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Zoom buttons on digital devices let us examine images from many viewpoints. They also provide an apt metaphor for modes of strategic thinking. Some people View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
irritation, Pieper could empathize: Having logged thousands of miles sailing in the Pacific Ocean, she knew that gear is important—that it should be portable, perform well under stress, and preferably look good. It was an aha moment that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
views on distributive justice are shown to differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. A large share of respondents, and in some cases a large majority, resist the full... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
in-country executives. For country-specific products (such as baseball shoes in the United States), Adidas prefers using in-country designers rather than design teams working out of corporate headquarters. "It's a European style of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Profile
Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo was attracted to industrial engineering (her undergraduate major) for one of the same reasons she was ultimately attracted to business: "to optimize processes, not just in manufacturing, but in any... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact. Q: What are the chief impediments to strategy execution? A: The chief impediment is inertia. Over time, organizations tend to optimize the efficiency of their... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Closings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
participant-centered learning. They worry that students will become dependent on the instructor to present a definitive synthesis and analysis of the discussion, thus shifting responsibility away from participants to assess and continue to reflect on what they have... View Details
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Maliha Khan
In college, Maliha Khan kept her family's textile business at arm's length, preferring to follow a path that would lead to a PhD in political science. But as she approached graduation, the business changed dramatically. "Pakistan... View Details