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- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
year, reaching half that production capacity in January and the rest by the end of April. Yet if governments had invested enough upfront to bring the second half online just three months earlier, the economic savings would have topped... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
leadership, alumni from Procter & Gamble's online operation, carefully laid out plans in which they estimated they would need a next round financing of $30 million. The representative from Flatiron indicated his partners would like to... View Details
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
incentive ended up generating $4,200 for four charities; the receipts were posted online afterward for the participants to see. Almost every respondent admitted to having engaged in at least one of these practices, but it's important to... View Details
- Profile
Adam Kanner
live events without cannibalizing full price tickets or hurting the brand, he could fill a huge market niche. In 2009, Kanner, MBA ‘98, started ScoreBig, an online ticketing service with a “name-a-ticket-price” model that... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
our business. And so as long as the Silicon Valley mindset is the goalpost, it still has to be aspirational for our business. Amira Rashad: What orders are you packing there, Richard? Richard: [inaudible] Rashad: For cleaning supplies?... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
and David Drake Abstract—In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior-the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior-the tendency to adjust period-to-period View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
ratings boost and launching a career that has seen a variety of radio gigs, including on Sirius, and many appearances on national television (such as Larry King Live and Nightline) and in print media (including Playboy, Glamour, and the New York Times). Her bawdy,... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Abstract In an online experiment, we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in standard configurations and in modified versions with improved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
inflection point in history, leaving one age and entering another. Many of our philosophical assumptions about what constituted leadership and competitive success grew out of a different world. The challenge now is to help managers understand the new corporate agenda,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
rest of us. An imaginative, tech savvy caregiver we employ in our home dreamed up a business based on an unsatisfactory personal experience. Despite her lack of formal training, resources, and investment, she devised a way to test her idea, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
faced with ethical dilemmas. The first study tested the hypothesis that a naturally creative person is predisposed to dishonest behavior. (The week before the experiment, the participants, 71 university students, completed an online... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
all) available seats. Boston’s school choice system, for example, reserved half of each school’s seats for local neighborhood applicants while leaving the other half for open competition. This paper shows that in the presence of reserves, the effect of the precedence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
2.1.4 Classroom Non-Attribution | MBA
attribution in online channels or platforms, students may be reluctant to approach any question, particularly controversial ones, with the openness and vulnerability they need to grow and to learn from one another. Moreover, it may be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
tools that strengthen teaching and learning. Online courses, for example, allow students to learn at their own pace, while electronic case studies introduce rich, multidimensional material into classroom discussions. The HBS experience... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
BulkWhiz retains distribution and delivery. "The lifetime value of a CPG customeris a lifetime!" explains Amira. "If you own the relationship and nurture recurring orders, the relationship is yours to lose. Handing over the last mile to someone else would be a big... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Overall, those who accepted smaller portions did not compensate by ordering more calories in their entrées, and the total calories served to them were, on average, reduced by more than 200. We also found that accepting the downsizing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
increasingly transform into places for experiences, not just for taking inventory home. What probably will not survive are the retailers that are more like a warehouse, or just physical repositories of goods. Real estate is too expensive for that purpose. The... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
that are paying careful attention to the hiring, training, and rewarding of store employees. Our favorite example of a retailer that has used labor successfully is the online retailer Zappos.com. The company pays very careful attention to... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
economically more valuable, in keeping with the values of fine art more generally. Q: Why did you use the Indian art market as the basis for your study on how categories evolve? A: Our interest began when we wrote a case on Saffronart.com, an Indian start-up that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne