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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
investors) or explicit (as captured by how actively analysts ask questions) demand for the English conference calls. This suggests that the form in which financial information is presented can impose additional processing costs by limiting investors' ability to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2015
- Working Paper
Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement
By: Frank Nagle and Christoph Riedl
Studies of online word of mouth have frequently posited―but never systematically conceptualized and explored―that the level of disagreement between existing product reviews can impact the volume and the valence of future reviews. In this study we develop a theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Online Word Of Mouth; Online Communities; Viral Marketing; Online Product Reviews; Quality; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Reference Programs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Digital Marketing; Analytics and Data Science
Nagle, Frank, and Christoph Riedl. "Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-091, May 2013. (Revised May 2015, selected for AOM Best Paper Proceedings.)
- Profile
Mark Giragosian
attraction of HBS is its application of the case study method. “One of my weaknesses was that I did not always speak up as quickly as I should have in business settings. The case method strengthens my ability to analyze and interpret... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
Sticky Capital Controls
By: Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro and Andrés Fernández
There is much ongoing debate on the merits of capital controls as effective policy instruments. The differing perspectives are due in part to a lack of empirical studies that look at the intensive margin of controls, which in turn has prevented a quantitative... View Details
- Web
Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
combination of forward-looking coursework, unique team activities with a diverse global network, and a capstone project that applies the program’s learnings. 6 months, 5-6 hrs/week Enroll by June 2 $6,500 Credential Business Essentials View Details
- Web
Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Interpret data to inform business decisions Recognize trends, detect outliers, and summarize data sets Analyze relationships between variables Develop and test... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital
Keywords: by Charles C.Y. Wang
- 2010
- Working Paper
Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari L. Granger
The sole objective of our ontological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we mean a way of being and acting in any leadership... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
In examining the competitive dynamics of R&D strategy, Josh has become particularly interested in how the introduction of new knowledge generated by rivals impacts the direction of R&D efforts. Understanding how new information alters project portfolio decisions is... View Details
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
focalized if selective interpretation of Franklin’s Poor Richard, and continues to stand tall as a heroic, uncompromising paragon of capitalism even as we debate issues of wealth disparity, CEO compensation, tax reform, and raising the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online
Accruals and Deferrals Inventory Long-Lived Assets Credit Risk Management Deferred Taxes Featured Exercise Record advanced business transactions as journal entries 8.5 hrs Module 5 The Statement of Cash Flows Understand how to construct and View Details
- 2018
- Book
Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought
By: Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert and Richard Whatmore
When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he... View Details
Keywords: Morals; Politics; Istvan Hont; Jealousy Of Trade; Enlightenment; Economic Nationalism; Markets; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Trade; History
Kapossy, Béla, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert and Richard Whatmore, eds. Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- 2013
- Comment
Fairness and Redistribution: Comment
By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
In an influential paper, Alesina and Angeletos (2005)—henceforth, AA—argued that a preference for fairness could lead two identical societies to choose different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: one with low taxes and a belief that the... View Details
Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra. "Fairness and Redistribution: Comment." American Economic Review 103, no. 1 (February 2013): 549–553.
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
where the work can be quite technical. Then you have the self-improvement people who can’t read and interpret the science, and some of it’s wrong. Where it is really exciting now is the seam between science and self-improvement, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
interpretation of the results, which is that we are identifying these human decision-making tendencies that explain why demographic change is so slow,” Chang says. “Once demographic change has happened, it’s much stickier than people... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
admirers right away, leveling the playing field and giving users a confidence boost. Picture walking around knowing exactly who likes you without needing to interpret signs like smiles, texts, and awkward banter. The research team... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- Web
Profiles - MBA
question, tracing the threads of digital sovereignty and interpretive authority as they warped in contexts fraught with warring economic priorities while blossoming in communities using digital platforms to express true, untold stories.... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side
our preliminary findings to the team and helped them think through how to use the results to improve their work. After studying four or five teams in a given company, we also met with the management team of the organization to share our general findings with them and... View Details
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Case Services - Faculty & Research
newsletter to faculty. The HBS Directors of Research is a body comprised of HBS faculty who are responsible for the research policies of the School. Case Services communicates those policies to case writers and provides support to the faculty in View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?
making decisions often decide to trust their anecdotal experience rather than AI’s interpretation of the data. The trouble is, sometimes decision makers think they understand the inner workings of an AI system better than they actually... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne