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  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

baseball and football first faced in the late 1800s; more contemporary models are extreme sports and professional poker, but neither was digital-first the way esports is. You can’t take anything for granted in this new world, Kennedy... View Details
Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

associated with a 0.5% increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

School prepared for the next century. We assembled forums of a dozen or more executives in Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and the US, gave them a package of graphic projections of the global economy in 2030, and spent an evening and a long morning discussing these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

interviewing techniques, term sheets—the kinds of things that people who start companies have to do.— Paul Marshall The second is forecasting cash flows, which is obviously not unique to entrepreneurs. We try to get students to recognize... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

I. Norton Abstract—While many experiments have explored risk preferences for money, few have systematically assessed risk preferences for everyday experiences. We propose a conceptual model and provide convergent evidence from seven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

video, all to improve the at-the-game experience and to keep pace with the coverage enjoyed by fans at home. Engineering Excitement If the NFL has seemed preternaturally blessed by good fortune and smart management, some of its success can be traced to a business View Details
Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

billion at the end of 2007. Lan is at an interesting point in history as the low-cost model was recently implemented. While early results have been strong, observers wonder if the airline can successfully manage three disparate business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

but is also necessary to use tie-breaking for schools whose capacity is sufficient to accommodate some but not all students of a given priority class. We analyze a model that encompasses one-sided and two-sided matching models. We first... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993 and the company sold stock to the public for the first time. Analysts forecast higher earnings for 1993, then the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

between firms' CSR ratings and analysts' forecast errors, indicating that learning is unlikely to account for the observed shifts in recommendations. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1507874 August 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2013
  • Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

newly approved Gen III+ nuclear reactors (e.g., AP-1000 variants or even the still-to-be-approved, but largely derivative Small Modular Reactors) are not likely to produce power cheaply enough to change the currently forecast build out of... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

food for its people. Through gardens planted with heirloom crops like Omaha Sacred Red Corn, Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans, and Mandan Squash—the "Three Sisters" of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred Seed is View Details
  • January 2025
  • Case

AI Meets VC: The Data-Driven Revolution at Quantum Light Capital

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
Ilya Kondrashov, CEO of Quantum Light Capital, was driven to harness AI for identifying high-potential scale-ups. Collaborating with Nik Storonsky, founder of Revolut, the duo observed that most venture capital (VC) decisions were heavily influenced by emotion, with... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Business Finance; Data Analysis; Angel Investors; Cognitive Biases; Scale; Venture Capital; Investment; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Public Opinion; Private Sector; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Business Earnings; Behavioral Finance; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; London; United Kingdom
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  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

startups, suggesting a time of increased experimentation in the economy. We provide a model of investment into new ventures that demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

worked in our favor was that we had developed multiyear financial forecast models. We were dealing with bank workout teams, which is very rugged. But because we had that information, we stunned them. They didn't expect that coming from a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

competitor to boost sales, become #1 in a niche market segment, and achieve economies of scale. He is struggling with whether the deal makes strategic sense given forecasts that this niche segment is declining, whether the price is too... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Meal Plan

positive picture, I’m afraid. Michael Kaufman: In 2019 the industry had 15.3 million employees; the forecast for 2020 was 15.6 million. I don’t know that we’ll see those levels in the future—as of early May, 8 million of those jobs have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade