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Human-Algorithm Collaboration with Private Information: Naïve Advice Weighting Behavior and Mitigation

By: Maya Balakrishnan, Kris Ferreira and Jordan Tong

Even if algorithms make better predictions than humans on average, humans may sometimes have private information which an algorithm does not have access to that can improve performance. How can we help humans effectively use and adjust recommendations made by... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Forecasting and Prediction; Digital Marketing

15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

downside market risks. Required rates of return in such an equilibrium can dramatically exceed those suggested by traditional models, affecting inference about the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

a new toothpaste that had helped drive Colgate to a record value share in the important U.S. market, was in the global pipeline for 2005. Burton... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2013
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Corporate Venturing

By: Josh Lerner

For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Knowledge Acquisition; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention

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01 Dec 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

quality, not where he or she does it." These comments raise added questions: Just how do "standards" for quality in labor get set? Is this something suitable for governments? Or should the... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

March 2014
Teaching Note

Tesla Motors

By: Eric Van den Steen

In mid-2013, Tesla Motors was riding a wave of success: It had launched its first really mass-produced car—the model S—to rave reviews, had recently raised first-year production targets, and had started taking orders for its next car, the Model X. Tesla seemed to be on... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Production; Product Launch; Business Strategy; Auto Industry; United States

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15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Crony Capitalism, American Style: What Are We Talking About Here?

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
Case

Sarvajal: Water for All

By: John D. Macomber and Mona Sinha

Entrepreneur wrestles with business model using SMS and RFID technology, franchising, and leasing to rapidly grow off-the-grid water purification business without subsidies. The company seeks to provide potable water services to rural and urban India where the public... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Communication Technology; Private Sector; Social Entrepreneurship; Cost Management; Rural Scope; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Problems and Challenges; Information Infrastructure; India

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20 Apr 2021
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A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

It’s simple: They create the most value, says Harvard Business School Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee. In almost every segment of the economy, the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

to market? Using data from the U.S. medical device industry, we find that pioneer (dis-)advantages in a market for technology setting are similar... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

of traditional U.S. public companies by more R&D-intensive firms is key to understanding the secular trend in average cash holdings. Over the last 35 years, an increasing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 18, 2006

earlier paper the authors discussed how D&O insurance can be used to reduce the governance risk facing insurers, by linking coverage to contractual obligations to follow... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2008 (Revised September 2011)
Supplement

PepsiCo's Bid for Quaker Oats (C)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Third in a series of PepsiCo's bid for Quaker Oats. Describes the auction for Quaker Oats including terms of the bids. After winning the auction, Coke's stock price fell dramatically. Coke's Board then refused to approve the deal and withdrew. Quaker then approached... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Stocks; Governing and Advisory Boards; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Tactics; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry

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January 1984
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A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Pricing Strategies for Dynamic Environments

By: Robert J. Dolan

Researchers of the strategic implications of the well-known demand (e.g., adoption and diffusion) and supply (e.g., experience effects) dynamics have typically sought analytical solutions. Their success in this has been achieved partly by limiting the richness of the... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Price; Mathematical Methods; Supply and Industry

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18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

in order to capture value in the by-product market ("full+ conversion"), or only convert part of its waste into by-product so as not to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

found the whole thing perplexing. “We show that people are prone to sharing more information in the very context in which it's more dangerous to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2010
Working Paper

A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial Regulation

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

A model is developed that rationalizes contracts that give depositors the right to obtain funds on demand even when depositors intend to use these funds for consumption in the future. This is explained by depositor overoptimism regarding their own ability to collect... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Insurance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Financial Services Industry

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July 2013 (Revised March 2015)
Case

Carl Zeiss and Free-Form Production: Can We See Clearly Yet?

By: Willy Shih

The prescription eyeglass lens industry was complicated and highly fragmented, and even though many of the tools and techniques employed have been relatively unchanged over the last century, there was still a surprising pace of innovation. An aging population around... View Details

Keywords: History; Demand and Consumers; Disruptive Innovation; Vertical Integration; Theory; Technology Adoption; Health Industry

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