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- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the expected demand at each price and must learn the demand information from sales data. We propose an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
valuation of $200 million and debating changes to them that will allow them to grow their business. Ensuring that their marketing dollars were being spent efficiently was critical to the data-driven management team and proving to be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-001 HEINEKEN—Brewing a Better World (B) This is a follow-up to the “HEINEKEN—Brewing a Better World (A)” case, with updated information on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
to be taken for granted, regardless of their efficiency implications. However, the institutional perspective does not address the fundamental issue of business strategy necessary to explain the persistence of substantially different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
and medical officers. Each officer went out for roughly an hour at a time and was encouraged to obtain feedback from nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, and administrators. Later, the officers held large staff meetings in each unit to gather more View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops. We show that sellers alter their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
for the next round, assuming that the other players merely repeat their previous bids. We focus on a strategy we call Balanced Bidding (BB). If all players use the BB strategy, we show that bids converge to a bid vector that obtains in a complete View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
simple, easy-to-use tools that provide a relatively reliable, inexpensive way to confirm diagnoses of malaria. In addition to ensuring that patients' febrile illnesses are properly diagnosed and treated, confirming malaria diagnoses has broader public health benefits,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
choice options, but not more confident about the choice after "sleeping on" a subjective decision. We discuss how the valence of recalled choice set information may be important in understanding the effects of sleep on... View Details
- June 2024
- Case
Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform
By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney
In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; Business Startups; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Private Sector; Entrepreneurial Finance; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Medical Specialties; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Technology Adoption; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Laws and Statutes; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Distribution; Product Development; Success; Performance Efficiency; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Health Industry; Israel
Stern, Ariel D., and Susan Pinckney. "Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform." Harvard Business School Case 624-046, June 2024.
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent with markets failing to properly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
examining performance over time, comparing adopters to non-adopters, and incorporating strategies to overcome selection bias. Evaluations that meet the highest methodological standards are critical to inform the debates about this new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
thought of before. It's one thing to say, "You need to change your system of cooking." Perhaps you could solve it better by saying, "There's a much more efficient way for you to cure your meats." In a sense, the... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_Stanton_MSCI_OdeskDiaspora-8-26-13.pdf September 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
not only through MOOCs (massive open online courses) but also such things as 3-D printing of products. An important driver is the Internet of Things that connects information about everything and everybody on a real-time basis, providing... View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
growing body of research yields ample evidence that individuals’ behavior often reflects an apparent concern for moral considerations. Using a broad definition of morality—to include varied non-egoistic motivations such as fairness, honesty, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
of lighter labor market regulations and more human capital specialize relatively more in people management. There is evidence for complementarities between information and communication technology, decentralization, and management, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
listen, it wouldn't be as efficient as just solving the problem now and then discussing it later. Because there is so much variation, we need to fix first, explain later." Said another worker: "Everyone is happy: Management sees... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
find support for these hypotheses. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-022.pdf Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs Author: Michael W. Toffel Abstract Firms and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
inside the firm to create subunits that define the operating core. As you will see, responsiveness is the critical objective for units close to the customer; economic efficiency and cost control are more important for units in the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons