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    Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

    Lacking human insight, artificial intelligence will be limited when it comes to helping marketers open the black box of market prediction, says Tomomichi Amano. View Details
    • 13 Dec 2019
    • News

    The AI Transparency Paradox

    • 19 Oct 2021
    • HBS Seminar

    Cynthia Rudin, Duke University

    • 10 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: January 10

    be reinforced in the labor market but do not result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-048.pdf Inside the Black Box of the Corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Article

    Beyond Individualized Recourse: Interpretable and Interactive Summaries of Actionable Recourses

    By: Kaivalya Rawal and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As predictive models are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes decision-making, there has been a lot of interest in developing algorithms which can provide recourses to affected individuals. While developing such tools is important, it is even more critical to... View Details
    Keywords: Predictive Models; Decision Making; Framework; Mathematical Methods
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    • 02 Jun 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

    for these long-standing disparities.” For the past 20 years, Chandra has been examining differences in health outcomes between white and Black Americans, searching for solutions to shrink the gap. In a recent working paper published... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Racial Diversity in Private Capital Fundraising

    By: Johan Cassel, Josh Lerner and Emmanuel Yimfor
    Black- and Hispanic-owned funds control a very modest share of assets in the private capital industry. We find that the sensitivity of follow-on fundraising to fund performance is greater for minority-owned groups, particularly for underperforming groups. We... View Details
    Keywords: Buyouts; Capital Formation; Minorities; Venture Capital; Minority-owned Businesses; Race; Diversity; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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    • October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
    • Background Note

    Plavix: Drugs in the Age of Personalized Medicine

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Mara G. Aspinall and Rachel Gordon
    PIavix, one of the world's best selling drugs in 2010, appears to have a limited future. Its patent was due to expire soon, and recently new data had been discovered that indicated that a small subset of the population would be at risk for stroke, heart attack, or even... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Positioning; Business and Government Relations; Genetics; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 06 Nov 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

    Summing Up Is Business Agility a Product of Top-Down or Bottom-Up Resource Allocation? Respondents to this month's column provided possible explanations for greater reliance on top-down resource allocation processes (RAPs) while reminding... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

    By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen
    This paper studies a novel, light-touch approach to aggregate judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and... View Details
    Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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    Large-Scale Investment (LSI, MBA Elective Curriculum)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty
    Large-Scale Investment (LSI) is a case-based course about project finance that is designed for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a... View Details
    Keywords: Project Finance; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Capital Budgeting
    • October 2021
    • Article

    Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

    By: Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher and Michael Wahlen
    We study a novel, low-cost approach to aggregating judgment from a large number of industry experts on ideas that they encounter in their normal course of business. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs... View Details
    Keywords: Judgment Aggregation; Quality Uncertainty; Creative Industry; Project Evaluation And Selection; Creativity; Film Entertainment; Judgments; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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      Henry W. McGee

      Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

      Keywords: television; motion pictures; media; e-commerce industry; entertainment; broadcasting; distribution; health care; journalism; wholesale; arts; nonprofit industry
      • August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
      • Case

      MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work

      By: Elie Ofek and Amanda Dai
      In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of development and billions of dollars in expenses, the FDA had finally approved its drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Adoption; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      • 26 Jun 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

      facial-expression tracking is used to study viewers’ real-time emotional responses when watching comedy movie trailers online. These data are used to predict both viewers’ intentions to watch the movie and the movie’s box office success.... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 17 May 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

      they feel like fits within a certain box and like very much will conform and like lay low and just kind of do what’s expected of them, and they’re not necessarily looking for the outspoken like political radical person,” a View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 16 Sep 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: September 16, 2008

      format. Customers know that at some prices, firms find it profitable to produce high-quality products and at other, lower, prices, this is not the case. Thus, customer empowerment leads to higher profits. Organizational Responses to Environmental Demands: Opening the... View Details
      • 21 Jan 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: January 21

      in bond risk premia. Specifically, bond risk premia are high when aggregate MBS duration is high. The model offers an explanation for why long-term rates may appear to be "excessively sensitive" to movements in short rates and... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 04 Jan 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: January 4

      be explained by choosers' behavioral biases or informational limitations. These explanations imply that absent behavioral or informational effects, larger menus would be objectively better. However, in an important economic context-401(k)... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 17 Aug 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

      of extreme economic, political, social, and meteorological instability. The Black Lives Matter protests that began in the United States in late May and spread worldwide have thrown another massive change agent into the equation.... View Details
      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams