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23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

individual passengers’ connection times, the system also produces quantile forecasts for the number of passengers arriving at the immigration and security areas. Academic/Practical relevance: Airports and airlines have been challenged to improve decision-making by... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Jan 2012
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Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Hanna Hałaburda; Entertainment & Recreation

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

27 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

time and resources to learn "outside the job" would be really helpful. I actually considered applying to a SEAS master's program during my RC year, but without a program like this it was hard to coordinate schedules and... View Details

06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

an examination of companies such as Boston Scientific and Paramount, and through research on auctions, the authors identified three principal drivers of competitive arousal: intense rivalry, especially in the form of one-on-one competitions; View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

The China Rules

To achieve growth and profitability in the world's third-largest economy, multinationals need strong leadership--but China is tough on top executives. Pulsating with opportunity, China attracts foreigners, yet HR professionals continue to rank it as one of the most... View Details

14 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

medium, a similar dynamic could apply, with an increase in the supply of television (and ways to view it) causing a shift to new content and perhaps a small drop in how it’s viewed, but no real change in the allocation of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

between Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai in March 2020 attracted so much attention. You’d have to be pretty naïve not to assume that somewhere on their menu was negotiation around Google’s annual payment to Apple for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

July 2019
Article

'Forward Flow': A New Measure to Quantify Free Thought and Predict Creativity

By: Kurt Gray, Stephen Anderson, Eric Evan Chen, John Michael Kelly, Michael S. Christian, John Patrick, Laura Huang, Yoed N. Kenett and Kevin Lewis

When the human mind is free to roam, its subjective experience is characterized by a continuously evolving stream of thought. Although there is a technique that captures people’s streams of free thought—free association—its utility for scientific research is undermined... View Details

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Forecasting and Prediction

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20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

should be able to command more compensation, but never tried to see if that was true. So I decided to collect data on the executives in new ventures and on the ventures themselves, to see what the real story was. My dataset for this... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Sep 2012
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Why Do We Tax?

theory recommends substantial "tagging" or tailoring of taxes to personal characteristics (such as height) that are, on average, linked to wages. In the real world, this is seen as a terrible idea, except for some select traits, such as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

21 Aug 2023
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You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

grit is going to overcome structural inequality and the lack of growth in real wages. Each of these pieces has made stability harder to achieve individually and collectively.” One of the more telling indicators of the shift in how... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

only 910,000 homes on the market remained unsold nationwide, an all-time low. And Zillow, the online real estate sales platform, recently revised its 2022 forecast upward, predicting home prices will surge 16 percent nationwide. The... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

2020
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Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt

The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Advertising; Spending; Media

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Multilateral Bankruptcy Rules

By: Jerry R. Green

A classic problem in economics is the selection of a bankruptcy rule with good normative properties. The problem as usually specified is given by the “estate” E which is to be divided among the “claims” c= (c₁,... View Details

12 Nov 2001
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Facing the New World Order

high grade to several of the countries in East Asia. It puts technology at the center of the story. The real winners, in our view, over the long term are those countries that are able to sustain high rates of innovation. For middle-income... View Details

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24 May 2018
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Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris

For many successful business people, retirement (or the advanced stages of their careers) is not a time to abandon old interests, but an opportunity to create new successes on the foundations of previous ones, perhaps by serving on a... View Details

October 2022
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An Heir with No Spare: The Deitch Family Office

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger

Joe and Matt Deitch, father and son, knew it was time to start their own family office. Matthew had recently joined his father at the family’s three enterprises, and they both realized that their family’s needs had grown increasingly complex over the years. In search... View Details

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Managing Health Care Delivery

live online sessions, and self-paced lessons, this health care management program emphasizes opportunities for innovation and prepares you to improve medical and economic outcomes at a time when patient needs are becoming more complex,... View Details

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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

First Look: May 6, 2008

The China Rules

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

'Forward Flow': A New Measure to Quantify Free Thought and Predict Creativity

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

Why Do We Tax?

You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

Multilateral Bankruptcy Rules

Facing the New World Order

Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris

An Heir with No Spare: The Deitch Family Office

Managing Health Care Delivery