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even greater responsibility as an executive committee member for the Atlanta office. Adams later held senior executive roles at First Data Corporation, where he oversaw 11,000 employees in the United States, the United Kingdom, and... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

collect data or change their policies, so caregivers’ work performance deteriorates and bias against caregivers continues. How can a company break that cycle? More companies need to develop a “care culture” that supports employees’... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

– Less Info This article explores the impact of social media and smartphones on youth, highlighting parental concerns about increasing anxiety and depression. Data shows high engagement rates among children and adolescents: 90% of infants... View Details

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

companies they fund. Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network? If friends influence the purchases of a user in a social network, it could potentially be a significant source of revenue for sites such as Facebook and their corporate sponsors. Using a unique... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

million, which Chung points out rivals some professional teams. In fact, the National Basketball Association’s Portland Trail Blazers had $153 million in revenue in 2015 according to a Forbes ranking of NBA teams. One limitation in the available View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

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Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment (joint with Andrew Charlton)

By: Laura Alfaro

We identify a new type of vertical foreign direct investment (FDI) made up of multinational subsidiaries producing intermediate inputs, which are of similar skill intensity to the final goods produced by their parents, and which are overwhelmingly located in high skill... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

A. Hidalgo. Scott Duke Kominers : Winner of the 2018 Western Economic Association International Best Economic Inquiry Article Award for “Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life” with Edward... View Details

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

The researchers also monitored whether customers closed their accounts during that time. The data helped researchers compare the loyalty and profit potential of customers who received each marketing message. After all, credit cards are... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Feb 2013
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Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

standards by two experienced accounting professionals who were blind to the study's objectives. Overall, the results fail to support the proposition that the biggest auditors increasingly consider themselves too big to fail. Rather, the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

09 Apr 2014
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Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus; Video Game; Web Services

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Designing Productive Zones of Privacy

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Field Experiments; Design; Organizational Design; Performance

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Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China

The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details

August 2019
Article

When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation

By: Yicheng Song, Nachiketa Sahoo and Elie Ofek

Sometimes we desire change, a break from the same or an opportunity to fulfill different aspects of our needs. Noting that consumers seek variety, several approaches have been developed to diversify items recommended by personalized recommender systems. However,... View Details

Keywords: Recommender Systems; Personalization; Recommendation Diversity; Variety Seeking; Collaborative Filtering; Consumer Utility Models; Digital Media; Clickstream Analysis; Learning-to-rank; Consumer Behavior; Media; Customization and Personalization; Strategy; Mathematical Methods

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26 Mar 2014
HBS Seminar

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16 May 2013
HBS Seminar

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29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

05 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods, published in the journal Organization Science, Nagle interviewed technology professionals and examined data from the Linux Foundation on... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

includes materials, like steel and cement, as well as energy to support the building process. RMZ has a target to reduce embodied carbon by 44% in new developments, but they expressed that the path to this goal is complicated by lack of View Details

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Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details

05 Dec 2014
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Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

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