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  • 30 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

mean and the distribution around that, and then look at the overall shape of what we get, and determine whether we are actually getting something that looks like a realistic demand curve or not,” Israeli explains. When the GPT prompt included View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 03 May 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The New York Times and Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

  • Fast Answer

Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds

navigation. Select Company Search. Add desired criteria under Industry & Geography. Under Company Attributes, check Private under Company Status. Under Financing & Exit, add information about funding... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

(1990) and Petersen-Rajan (1995) models of information acquisition in credit markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-077.pdf Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in... View Details
  • 2013
  • Book

Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment

By: Anita Elberse
What's behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises, and the NFL—along with such stars as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Business; Strategy; Media; Digital Technology; Blockbuster; Superstar; Film; Television; Music; Publishing; Performing Arts; Nightlife; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Technology; Marketing Strategy; Music Entertainment; Success; Sports; Business Strategy; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Music Industry; Fine Arts Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Publishing Industry
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  • November 2023
  • Case

The Commons Project in Rwanda—Building Digital Infrastructure for the Global Public Good

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Tom Quinn
In September 2022, The Commons Project Foundation (TCP) CEO Zhenya Lindgardt and her team met on a Zoom call to discuss building tools to help Rwandans manage their health data. They believed that helping Africa build digital infrastructure would improve much-needed... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Capital; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Adaptation; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology Industry; Rwanda; United States
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  • 23 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 13 Jul 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Economic Catastrophe Bonds

Keywords: by Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford; Financial Services
  • 22 Jun 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Proprietary vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms and Social Efficiency

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Video Game; Web Services
  • 16 Jun 2021
  • Interview

Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Diversity; Communication
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

(When) Does Appearance Matter? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Christos A. Makridis and Subhradip Sarker
While there is evidence about labor market discrimination based on race, religion, and gender, we know little about whether physical appearance leads to discrimination in labor market outcomes. We deploy a randomized experiment on 1,000 respondents in India between... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Coronavirus; Discrimination; Homophily; Labor Market Mobility; Limited Attention; Resumes; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias
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  • November 2020
  • Article

Barriers to Hospital Electronic Public Health Reporting and Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: A Jay Holmgren, Nate Apathy and Julia Adler-Milstein
We sought to identify barriers to hospital reporting of electronic surveillance data to local, state, and federal public health agencies and the impact on areas projected to be overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using 2018 American Hospital Association data, we... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Public Health; Syndromic Surveillance; Pandemic; COVID-19; Health Pandemics
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  • March 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to provide a solution to a large scale complex problem. Ultimately, Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Nutrition; Business and Community Relations
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  • Article

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Jobs and Positions
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting

By: Karthik Ramanna
This paper provides an accounting-based conceptual framing of the phenomenon of corporate accountability reporting. Such reporting is seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective,... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; For-Profit Firms; Framework; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Research; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues
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  • May 2011 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Nanda Home: Preparing for Life after Clocky

By: Elie Ofek and Jill Avery
Gauri Nanda, the inventor of Clocky, the alarm clock that rolls off the bed stand and forces its owner to find it, has to make critical decisions regarding the future of her nascent company. As sales of Clocky show signs of declining, she must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Management; Electronics Industry
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  • March 2006
  • Module Note

Financing Decisions within the Firm

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Describes a core module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module focuses on the financial and managerial issues that confront managers who make financial decisions within multinational firms: how subsidiaries should be financed and... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; International Finance; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Framework; Performance Evaluation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices. Cognitively, some consumers do not appear to make effective use of price information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and... View Details
Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Price; Policy; Laws and Statutes; Consumer Behavior; Emotions
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  • 08 Nov 2018
  • News

Bookshelf: November / December 2018