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- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
begin by analyzing restaurant reviews that are identified by Yelp's filtering algorithm as suspicious or fake-and treat these as a proxy for review fraud (an assumption we provide evidence for). We present four main findings. First,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), used machine-learning algorithms to evaluate the abilities of job seekers and provide feedback by measuring not only skills and knowledge, but also personality and behavior traits. Since its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
enabled by creativity and the right organizational flexibility and mindset. The case highlights the key role of performance metrics in building a flexible system that could be refined through experimentation and testing, steadily improving performance with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-070.pdf Search Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Applying a "co-search" View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
the optimal rating. This suggests that large gains could be made by implementing optimal ratings. Much of the gains come from our method responding more quickly to changes in a restaurant's quality. Our algorithm can be flexibly applied... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
Now you have programmatic buying; the algorithm does all that. There is no comparative advantage in media buying anymore. So suddenly you need an engineering mind, you need a data-analytics mind, and you need the data scientists who work... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
will disagree about the optimal choice from a randomly selected available set. We provide an algorithmic method to compute these metrics in the case where the probability of a given feasible set is a function only of its cardinality. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
algorithms and statistical analysis to detect problems such as leaks, bursts, and faulty equipment within a water utility's infrastructure. Such problems caused significant water and energy loss at many utilities, led to service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
understanding of factors beyond prediction accuracy—such as transparency and perceived fairness—that managers need to consider when deciding which predictive algorithm to deploy. The class discussion also helps students appreciate the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Business School Case 519-010 DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: "leaders" and "managers." Leaders focus on multi-function, high-level meetings, while managers focus on one-to-one meetings with core functions. Firms with leader CEOs are on average more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
individuals have the choice to enact a variety of communication styles. We test the differential impact of being “warm and friendly” versus “tough and firm” in a distributive negotiation, when first offers are held constant and concession patterns are tracked. We train... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
predict changes in the number of overall establishments and restaurants in County Business Patterns. Contemporaneous and lagged Yelp data can generate an algorithm that is able to explain 29.2% of the residual variance after accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
of 20 people, competing against each other to solve a complex algorithmic engineering problem. In each room, only 5 participants were declared winners. Rather than sort participants into rooms based on their inherent skills, however, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
affected U.S. innovation. We confront two empirical challenges in assessing the impact. We map all U.S. utility patents granted by March 2013 to firm-level data using a novel Internet-based matching algorithm that corrects for a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
research process that led to many of the critical breakthrough concepts and algorithms for the field and the training of PhDs, who then created companies that brought the new technology to the marketplace. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
agents. Truncation Strategies in Matching Markets Author:Lars Ehlers Periodical:Mathematics of Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract Roth and Rothblum showed that for matching markets using the deferred acceptance algorithm a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace