Aggregation - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

more than the statement presented in company documents; it's the actual aggregation of commitments and their relationship to the realized strategy of the firm. Operating level decisions can change the de facto strategy of the firm.... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

A Renter’s Market

City–based Redbrick with an economist partner in 2002. “Millions of individuals buy a unit or two to rent out as income producers,” Lee says. “But there existed no fund that went after single-family houses in some sort of aggregate way... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Real Estate

Profile

Allen Yang

PepsiCo's foodservice division, and became a product engineer at a start-up, Yipit, an online aggregator of daily deal services, such as Groupon and LivingSocial. "Being accepted to HBS gave me the courage to try new things,"... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Tech; Financial Services

Fast Answer

Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

href="https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/b2fb8a/01HVD_ALMA512225384250003941">Business Today: (available via Proquest). Factiva (database): View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named

’08/MPA ’09). Both have been named HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellows for 2010 and awarded $25,000 grants to advance their enterprises. Brehm, along with his wife, Faith, is cofounder of the online venture AbilityTrip (www.abilitytrip.com), which View Details

Keywords: Awards; disability; gay rights; Accommodation; Hospitality

01 Dec 2015
News

Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check

four of these teams are then aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are... View Details

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

returns of 0.86, whereas the popular factor-based expected return models have either an insignificant or a significantly negative association with future returns. In supplemental analyses, we show that these forecasts are also informative of the time-series variation... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Nov 2020
News

Students craft their post-HBS lives

reflection. “One of the course goals is to help students develop self-knowledge and live with greater intentionality,” explains Francis, who journals regularly. “We created an app that prompts students to reflect daily and then aggregates... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness

community, city, our country, than the pain of outsiders,” he says. We can increase our aggregate good in the world by redirecting our intentions to support people farther afield who are struggling with basic human needs. Max Bazerman is... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

private-label manufacturing of quality products. “Up to now, we haven’t been able to service the small customers, such as country clubs, in a cost-effective way,” says Fung. But with the Internet, the company can provide “limited customization,” View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

the base of the pyramid encompasses 5.0 of the 7.5 billion people in the world. In most nations, it accounts for the largest aggregate expenditure of the economy, yet continues to be significantly underserved. This makes possible... View Details

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

consult its resources monthly, and its aggregate data has spurred policymakers to consider disparities in the government’s procedures. In an analysis undertaken before the pandemic, Boundless found that the average processing time for... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

learn so much from patients, but getting them involved requires encouragement, building trust, and growing awareness. Learn more: Patient Engagement: Five Basics Patient Engagement Through Value Patient Registries 2. Data & Analytics: View Details

15 Nov 2020
News

Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

leaders an opportunity to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous yet supportive environment.” This year, the $75,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Grand Prize was awarded to Mosaic, a health care data View Details

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

subsequent growth into a diversified group. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2520237 Optimal Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

how other companies can begin to adopt it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51074 Forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk-Taking? By: Beshears,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

seeking by the managers. However, this increase in market size will lead to the entry of more firms, which calls for more decentralized decision making. Under reasonable conditions, the aggregate effect leads to a U-shaped relationship... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

with minimal impact on aggregate sales quantity. While this research focused specifically on a flash sales setting, they believe it could be useful for any retailer that needs to make pricing decisions for new products before the selling... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories

08 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

gain equal to between 0.6% and 1.5% of aggregate annual consumption, and it captures more than 60% of the gain from reform to the dynamic optimal policy. The gains are due to substantial increases in both efficiency and equity. When age... View Details