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- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Whether it’s booking a hotel, renting a movie, or buying a car, many of us consult multiple reviews before deciding. It’s called aggregating opinions, and we do it without even thinking about it. Crowdsourcing works so well, in fact, says... View Details
- 19 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- Fast Answer
Companies: social responsibility
CSRHub: Aggregates data from multiple sources. Free registration is required to see basic data. Monthly subscriptions provide access to finer rating categories. Global 100: Most Sustainable Corporations in the World: The Global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots
Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of... View Details
- 07 Mar 2016
- HBS Seminar
Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Web
Banking System - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
expense divided by average assets. Source: Bank Holding Company Y9C Data The aggregate Tier 1 ratio is much higher than its pre-crisis lows, driven by new capital regualtion. The Tier 1 ratio is defined as tier1 capital divided by assets.... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
proposition offered by the two clothing retailers is so different that one cannot learn much from comparing the aggregate cost of servicing customers at the two companies. Armani would probably not benefit from studying Wal-Mart's selling... View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
- 26 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews
Farronato says. Machine learning for dining out Regulatory health inspections are nothing new: Most cities maintain grading programs to evaluate restaurants’ hygiene practices, and that information is publicly available to savvy diners. Yelp is a mainstream,... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
show that this aggregation of information is not only a leading indicator of violations of rules and regulations, but it’s even a leading indicator of the whistleblower complaints themselves,” Campbell says of the study that resulted,... View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
succeed, the value created by the differentiation—measured by higher margins and higher sales volumes—has to exceed the cost of creating and delivering customized features and services. Unfortunately, many companies cannot accurately decompose their View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
aggregate information or map out where and how water is impacting a company’s supply chain.” Leni and Taryn see multiple entrepreneurial opportunities in the water space, among them: “assessing water risks and water quality, nature-based... View Details
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
adjusting much more rapidly, those surging gas prices become more meaningful, he says. “They need to pay more attention to these types of aggregate shocks, even if they are transitory, because they can affect retail prices much faster... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
were, they aggregated into a mighty marketing force. By 1994, Snapple was available across the country, and as distributors added painstakingly cultivated supermarket accounts, sales ballooned to $674 million from just $4 million ten... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Tokyo, MBK Partners focuses primarily on buyouts of consumer-facing businesses in China, Japan, and Korea. With nearly $30 billion in capital under management, the firm is raising its sixth flagship fund, targeting $8 billion; the firm’s average View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
List, an annual compilation of promising scripts recommended by anonymous Hollywood insiders. In a new working paper, Judgement Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry, Luo and her two co-authors—Jeffrey... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
its merchant banking activities, Stern, with several of his colleagues, founded The Cypress Group, a private firm that makes equity investments and now manages two funds aggregating $3.5 billion of capital. In addition to his... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
Industries, which focuses entirely on the media and entertainment sector, and which includes sessions on basketball star LeBron James, online video aggregator Hulu, the NFL, and the Metropolitan Opera, among other cases. The first part of... View Details
- 27 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding
Author's note: Over the past few weeks, I have been asking CEOs attending programs I teach at Harvard Business School a simple question: What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? They've mentioned numerous complicated challenges that I have View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg