Aggregation - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

Dictators who devote resources to acquiring information are individuals whose giving is particularly responsive to recipient type. They use the information mainly to withhold resources from "undeserving" types, leading to a drastic decline in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

prevalent? The private sector's $4 billion per year investment in education is a drop in the bucket when you consider the $600 billion total spent annually on US K-12 education. But it is still a significant sum with high-impact potential. Unfortunately, no clear,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

approached her to become its second president, Barry was ready to make the move. During the past fifteen years, the network's aggregate portfolio has grown to more than $8 billion, and WWB has gone from serving some 20,000 low-income... View Details

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

final choices can be aided by multiple reviews aggregated from the wisdom of global crowds. 5. Few Comparables. Many business travelers stay in more than 20 hotels each year. They develop a smart shopping expertise that enables them to... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

08 Jan 2007
What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

operate network-governed enterprises using the knowledge of neuro economics." Among questions this leaves us with are whether this research is valuable primarily in the aggregate or in individual cases. If so, just how long will it... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Web

Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

supports the ability to aggregate cost information across multiple organizations that deliver care to a patient throughout a defined episode of care. Web Extra: Using TDABC to Deliver Better Patient Outcomes at Lower Cost HEALTHCARE... View Details

Web

Finalists | New Venture Competition

and software to enable bi-directional EV charging and then aggregates this capacity to trade energy in the electricity wholesale markets. Oply Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025) Gabe Chrismon Oply is an AI-powered home management assistant that... View Details

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

highlight an important channel for alleviating financing constraints in small firms but also emphasize the general-equilibrium effects of large-scale interventions, which can lead to lower aggregate outcomes depending on labor market... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

firms had “slack,” but not through changing investments or accruals. These incentives are driven by the prestige associated with the index rather than capital market benefits. Back-of-envelope estimates suggest that the index accounted for 23% of the average increase... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

capital-market or product-market benefits from inclusion. Status incentives contributed to the observed performance improvement. Back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest that JPX400 inclusion incentives accounted for 16% (20%) of the growth in View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

aggregated levels offer a number of jumping-off points for discussion, and students can't hide behind 20/20 hindsight—their original choices are there for all to see. An unexpected result from the program's introduction offers a good... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

product information standards makes the current aggregation and dissemination of such content an expensive and inefficient proposition—an effort duplicated by each distributor in the channel. This problem is further compounded by... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

27 Jul 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

volunteers, we aggregate high-quality support resources, use targeted digital advertising to get the right resources to the right people, and build solutions for communities when one doesn’t already exist. Raquel and HBS sectionmate... View Details

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

KironHarvard Business School Case 810-086 In February 2010, management of the Huffington Post, a fast-growing but not-yet-profitable Internet newspaper that aggregates blog posts from unpaid contributors and excerpts of stories originally... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

experiencing them. There is also an issue of skepticism. Clust has about 175 buying cycles (products actually on sale) at any point in time, compared with about 4,000 aggregated demands. YesMail's emails have a response rate of 15%, which... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 May 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

across the city. They operate within urban centers and landfills to collect waste, sort out the plastic, and help\ aggregate them for larger materials processing facilities like HUL and Dalmia’s plant. This fragile ecosystem is supported... View Details

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which assembles information from court records and other sources to create an aggregate data set of members of Congress involved in a scandal. Minor studied incidents occurring between 2005... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

the aggregate appears increasingly less focused on small business lending. The share of small business loans of total bank loans was about 50 percent in 1995, but only about 30 percent in 2012. Moreover, small business owners report that... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

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