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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
for the course was later published, and Paul asked me to become his research assistant. Working with him was critical to me, because he was one of the few economists at the time whose work really integrated sophisticated mathematics and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
out-of-sample generalizability of predicting decisions from brain activity. Third, sophisticated meta-analyses will help consumer neuroscientists to synthesize the growing body of knowledge, providing evidence for consistency and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Business School Publishing) This history doubles as a sophisticated account of the opportunities and challenges facing the modern investor. It follows the rise of funded retirement, the evolution of investment vehicles and techniques,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
the Intel 8086 to the world’s largest and most sophisticated information processing organization, the International Business Machines Corporation. IBM epitomized the computer industry as it had been for at least two decades: vertically... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
industry. Buyer power appears to be higher in the Old World. Consumers are more sophisticated and somewhat more price sensitive in the Old World than in the New World. More sales occur through supermarkets and other off-premise locations... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
business research changing? A: The field is becoming much more sophisticated in terms of scholarship and consulting. The founders of the field have been around now for almost a generation and in that time we've seen our numbers grow. I... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
unmatched and unchecked culture of engineering ambition, of rote learning and educational experimentation, of sophisticated tastes along with basic concerns with food safety. It is a country that is at once cosmopolitan and confused about... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
client relationships to the rest of the company, growing their business from just local transactions to the full array of services JLL provided. Second, local brokers became aware of a great number of mid-sized clients whose real estate needs were not as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
sophisticated customers will not be good at working with mass-market retailing channels. The key then is to identify what processes a competitor has and what processes the company lacks. Processes are developed when companies solve the... View Details
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deliver government services. The research examines a country, Estonia, that was successful in becoming "the most wired country in the world," and draws lessons on what the US Government can do to increase sophistication and adoption of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
sophisticated that it can basically fly itself. If everything goes right in an Airbus A380 flight, the pilot will fly the plane for about eight minutes-- four minutes when it takes off, four minutes when it lands. The other 14 hours it... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
Zagat's guides rate restaurants. One of the fifteen companies Sutherland has helped since volunteering with ReSTART last October has been Linea, a two-person architectural firm whose office was located in 1 World Trade Center. "They lost everything - work in progress,... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
investing. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212068-PDF-ENG Intel: Exploring Market Opportunities in Water Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, George Serafeim, and Sarah E. FarrellHarvard Business School Case 412-100 Seeking to move beyond... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
express inconsistent beliefs about the product suitable from them, and mention they have received advice from another seller of insurance, they are more likely to receive suitable advice. Agents provide better advice to more sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
alcoholic beverage to a sophisticated natural product and fine accompaniment for gourmet food. By creating wine as a symbol of social status, the reimagined wine industry became a reinforcer of social and class divisions in the United... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural strength and the will of a one-party government. Meeting the growing demands of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
crowds can be expected to provide wisdom and show, theoretically and empirically, that their efficacy is related to crowd sophistication and task complexity. Consistent with this framework, we find that a "crowd-of-crowds" approach, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
late 2009, Marisa worked in acquisitions at Douglas Private Equity Advisors. During the first year Marisa spent a lot of her time reviewing documents, making site visits, and running numbers, using a sophisticated software program called... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
broad-based government guarantees to one with market discipline exerted by sophisticated and at-risk investors in bank debt. The federal government should not be encouraging mergers among large institutions in the financial sector, which... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Increasingly, the case method is being used to teach sophisticated techniques like valuation, forecasting, and competitive analysis. These techniques are essential to modern business literacy and are required for employment at investment... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin