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- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
entrepreneurial venture. The paper, which offers a rare glimpse into an area where little consolidated data is available, is forthcoming in the journal Social Science & Medicine. "This study happens to focus on cadavers, but it... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
computer to access data stored on another and to interact with that information. As he publicized his innovation among his fellow employees and across the computing community, people admired the quality of his work. In fact, in... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
market, then investors, employees, intermediaries such as law firms and data providers, and the wider capital markets are likely to be knowledgeable about the venturing process and the strategies, financing, support, and exit mechanisms... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
the insights and observations that you have from discussing it with students, but maybe you could start just by telling us what led you to write this case. George: Well, the Guardian last year broke the story on Facebook being invaded by Cambridge Analytica and user... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
practices creating a learning and innovative organization; and tracking results in terms of the "four Rs" of retention, referrals, returns to labor, and relationships with customers. It shows "the culture cycle" at work in practice based on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using four years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in product variety and inventory levels are both associated with higher sales. We also show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
might not expect prices to increase very much.” Helpful for M&A analysis As part of their study, MacKay and Remer used market-share data to develop a statistical model that would allow antitrust authorities to more quickly incorporate... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
Ferri, on leave as a visiting assistant professor of accounting at NYU's Stern School of Business, sees a number of avenues for future research on executive compensation, including its influence on risk-taking and the effects of regulation and disclosure regimes on... View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
provided excellent comparative data of the kind that we have seen all too little in the public debate on the matter. And nearly everyone admirably avoided the political rhetoric that has clouded rational thought about a truly complex... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
patients; however, organizations have struggled to obtain outcomes data from electronic health record (EHR) systems. This study describes how Texas Children’s Hospital customized a commercial EHR system and assembled a cross-functional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
data and then thinking about the potential complementarities of strategies from a portfolio construction context. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211025-PDF-ENG News in the Digital World: Who Pays? Stephen P.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
technologies could leverage their abilities. It is generally agreed that Wal-Mart would have been impossible to manage so efficiently without state of the art, computerized data processing. So Walton authorized investments in it. Wal-Mart... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
markess. Using stock market data for the largest seven developed countries between 1986 and 2013, they disentangled changes in the prices of securities versus their value. “This is how you can piece out whether a positive return in the... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
data security, implementation challenges, and the limits of education technology's impact in the classroom. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/technology-innovations-in-k-12-education/an/314123-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
will probably be enhanced by the information that others have about us. Will big data overwhelm us, thereby reinforcing such things as brand loyalty? Or will the quality of our search and valuation devices make us smarter, and less loyal,... View Details
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
emotional activity, but this paper shows the benefits of factoring in a more left-brain mathematical approach as well," says Raman. "If you have 300 stores, and every day you're receiving data on how each of those stores is... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
retrospective data compensate for projections? What is "real information"? And do conservative estimates of the future lead organizations to underperform? What do you think? Original Article This question is not as innocuous as... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
mortality, respectively). Contrary to prediction, interdisciplinary collaboration mediates, rather than moderates, the relationship between using deliberate learning activities and workgroup performance. Thus, our data suggest that using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological tools and View Details
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
project, starting with the data generation. "She managed to convince people to tell her how they were doing every day," said Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. Amabile explained the importance of approaching field... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel