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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Illustrations by James Steinberg It’s been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction becomes View Details
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Ensembles of Overfit and Overconfident Forecasts
By: Y. Grushka-Cockayne, V.R.R. Jose and K. C. Lichtendahl
Firms today average forecasts collected from multiple experts and models. Because of cognitive biases, strategic incentives, or the structure of machine-learning algorithms, these forecasts are often overfit to sample data and are overconfident. Little is known about...
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Grushka-Cockayne, Y., V.R.R. Jose, and K. C. Lichtendahl. "Ensembles of Overfit and Overconfident Forecasts." Management Science 63, no. 4 (April 2017): 1110–1130.
- 13 Apr 2012
- HBS Seminar
Drazen Prelec, Professor of Management Science and Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management
- October 2016
- Article
Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science
By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani and Christoph Riedl
Selecting among alternative innovative projects is a core management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowledge embodied in...
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Keywords:
Knowledge;
Innovation;
Novelty;
Evaluation;
Resource Allocation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Innovation and Management;
Science-Based Business;
Experience and Expertise
Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl. "Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science." Management Science 62, no. 10 (October 2016).
- August 2021
- Case
Precision Paint Co.
Describes a marketing director about to launch a new process for demand forecasting. Provides data that allow students to do a multivariable regression analysis. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Bojinov, Iavor I., Chiara Farronato, Janice H. Hammond, Michael Parzen, and Paul Hamilton. "Precision Paint Co." Harvard Business School Case 622-055, August 2021.
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market. “Although not a scientist...
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- 1984
- Book
Negotiating the Law of the Sea: Lessons in the Art and Science of Reaching Agreement
Sebenius, James K. Negotiating the Law of the Sea: Lessons in the Art and Science of Reaching Agreement. Harvard Economic Studies. Harvard University Press, 1984. (Winner of Harold and Margaret Sprout Award For the best book in the study of international environmental problems presented by International Studies Association.)
- 1995
- Article
Technology Development and Integration: An Empirical Study of the Interaction between Applied Science and Product Development
By: Marco Iansiti
Keywords:
Information Technology;
Research and Development;
Integration;
Information;
Science;
Product
Iansiti, Marco. "Technology Development and Integration: An Empirical Study of the Interaction between Applied Science and Product Development." IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 42 (1995): 259–269.
- July 1990
- Case
Food Science Corp. (FSC)--Cholesterol Extraction and Other Technology Applied to Health Hazards in the Food Chain
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "Food Science Corp. (FSC)--Cholesterol Extraction and Other Technology Applied to Health Hazards in the Food Chain." Harvard Business School Case 591-018, July 1990.
- 2021
- Article
Nudging the Commute: Using Behaviorally-Informed Interventions to Promote Sustainable Transportation
By: Ashley Whillans, Joseph Sherlock, Jessica Roberts, Shibeal O'Flaherty, Lyndsay Gavin, Holly Dykstra and Michael Daly
Dramatic reductions in carbon emissions must take place immediately. A human-centric method of reducing environmental impacts is to “nudge” employees away from single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs) toward more sustainable commuting options. While an abundance of research...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Science;
Transportation Demand Management;
Commuting;
Single-occupancy Vehicle Commutes;
Transportation;
Behavior;
Change;
Environmental Sustainability
Whillans, Ashley, Joseph Sherlock, Jessica Roberts, Shibeal O'Flaherty, Lyndsay Gavin, Holly Dykstra, and Michael Daly. "Nudging the Commute: Using Behaviorally-Informed Interventions to Promote Sustainable Transportation." Behavioral Science & Policy 7, no. 2 (2021): 27–49.
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Truth Tests and Utility Tests: Private Sector Decision Makers' Frames of Reference for Social Science Research
By: Rohit Deshpandé
Deshpandé, Rohit. "Truth Tests and Utility Tests: Private Sector Decision Makers' Frames of Reference for Social Science Research." Social Science Quarterly 67, no. 1 (March 1986): 39–52.
Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data Science Is Disrupting the Work of Agencies
Speaker's Box, Journal of Advertising Research
“Speaker’s Box” invites academics and practitioners to identify potential areas of research affecting marketing and advertising. Its intention is to bridge the gap between the length...
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