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  • 09 Feb 2017
  • News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

that is based on robotics. “The goal is for us to identify talent early, so that we can attract students into our graduate program and provide hope to primary schools kids and parents that there will be jobs and an employment future,” he says. The Dandelion View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Case Study: Bionic Banking

market-beating methodologies are hard to create, and any “proprietary” advantage will be even harder to maintain. Alpha Architect’s success will be based on its secret sauce and not on the serving spoon—even if it is a robo-serving spoon.... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

Based on dialogue with all stakeholders, create an information gap analysis, develop and implement necessary methodologies for creating missing content, and consult with the board to determine an "optimal level of transparency." The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea—sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up—is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

Brazil. Finding, following the methodology of La Porta et al. (1998), that creditor rights vary too much over time to be determined by legal origin. I propose that the time-variance of investor protections is better explained by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including the simple matching estimator, in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

threat responses and their implications for research on identity dynamics within organizations.   Working PapersThe Impact of Supplier Reliability Tracking on Customer Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

Street earnings occurred around 1991, and (iii) a large number of firm-quarter observations exhibit zero differences between GAAP and Street earnings. We first view the paper as a methodological paper, and discuss how the analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the substantive, theoretical, and methodological contributions. With empirical chapters from across the contemporary Global South, including India, Mexico, and China, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

development of new frameworks. Fierce argument and methodological innovation have moved academic subjects forward, not bland rejections of previous frameworks." An excerpt from the essay, "Business History: Time for... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

strategy. Methodological Fit in Management Field Research Authors:A. C. Edmondson and S. E. McManus Periodical:The Academy of Management Review 32, no. 4 (October 2007) Abstract Methodological fit, an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

estimating the variance of demand using dispersion among experts' forecasts and scale. We test this methodology using three datasets, demand data at item level, sales data at firm level for retailers, and sales data at firm level for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

drive technological innovation, and employ efficient use of capital. The course was an incredible opportunity to interact and network with industry leaders as well as fellow classmates with interests in the field. The course gave me a practical understanding of the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

Bill Kerr: The two main levers we use in the MBA classroom are the case study methodology and the learning-by-doing experiential work in which we’ve made great investments. What the School does very well is bring to life issues that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

can increase use. We test this hypothesis in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

physics, medicine, and other disciplines; they study business issues through new lenses and bring a wider range of methodologies to their research. This is a crucial aspect of what makes HBS unique; it means we can bring all these... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

the observer’s perspective, leaving the perspective of the observed to the realm of scholarly methodology courses and philosophical debates on privacy. I suggest how the literature on transparency and related literatures might be improved... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on the pillars of health, housing, citizenship, income, and education. After... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

to areas which were relatively better off. The results and research method could aid in understanding, explaining, and perhaps preventing civil war elsewhere. "We are filling in a methodological hole," says Iyer of their paper,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace