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- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data on operations, targets, and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm-level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
there is a paradox inherent in the social imprinting of WISEs: although it directly enhances their social performance, it also indirectly weakens it by negatively affecting economic productivity. Results based on panel data of French... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Working PapersAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Combining new, hand-collected data with a widely studied dataset,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of opening physical retail... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans
Village staff, program alumni, successful start-ups, early stage start-ups, impact investors, and the head of the Louisiana Buyout Fund. We also looked at recently released data from the Greater New Orleans... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
continued to grow globally. Another, a seasoned lawyer, set out to evolve the organizational structure of his firm. “The emergence of new technologies and the trend toward unbundling legal services into... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
Summing Up Personal Predictive Analytics: Should We Be Careful What We Wish For? The world of continuous monitoring of numerous sensors for machines and humans, limitless information storage capacity, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
words, create a better end-to-end consumer experience, with the result being a larger, deeper pool of data to draw on and drive progress in new therapies. Data View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
clustering affect the American economy as a whole? Harvard Business School’s William R. Kerr sets out to explore those questions, and their implications for US immigration policy, in a new working paper,... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19
Kristen Fitzpatrick (HBS '03) is the Managing Director of HBS Career and Professional Development (CPD). In this role, she also coaches alumni and MBA students. Through her interactions with recruiters over... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
colleagues found striking trends as they looked closer at dining patterns. The team analyzed almost six months of data from the foot traffic analytics firm SafeGraph to gauge how many people were leaving their homes, how often they were... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
grades. When viewed in absolute terms, the data show that urban districts still perform well below national averages and have a long way to go, but the progress is cause for optimism. Q: What are the biggest... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
For millions of TV watchers, the commercial break is an annoyance of the past, thanks to the fast-forward button on their digital video recorders. Consequently, advertisers are turning to the web, where popular sites such as YouTube and... View Details
- 03 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
4 Ways HBS Alumni Utilize Baker Library
eBaker - a subset of the 150 premium electronic business resources available to students – can be accessed 24 hours a day, from anywhere with an internet connection, at no cost to alumni. eBaker provides access to thousands of journals, View Details
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
effect on population size." Impact of robots more widespread Tabellini and his colleagues compiled data from 722 US commuting zones (CZs), or areas where people live to commute to work. They split 25 years... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
companies while US doesn’t have these types of companies and therefore the industry-specific materiality map may not be applicable. Another challenge is the lack of data and... View Details