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- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
generated rich empirical data that in some cases confirms and in other cases contradicts many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines, says Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, who edited the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
handle human tasks—allows companies to use multiple variables to compute the best targets for employees, often in real time. Many companies have started using machine-learning algorithms to construct AI systems. Such algorithms can take two forms: Supervised learning.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Research Research Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data By: Marco Di Maggio , Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara & Don Carmichael MAR 2022 Will the use of alternative data to assess borrowers’... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
was the dream all along: doing A&R for an iconic rap label and reporting to its legendary executive. Dixon was all of 24, and she had fought tooth and nail to get there. After finishing her degree from Stanford in 1992, she moved to New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and textual analysis to create a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
but this article shows it has never been true historically. Using longitudinal data on individual firms from the nineteenth century onwards, it reveals evidence of how entrepreneurs and firms with multinational activity faced by market... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
labels 'international' and 'domestic' no longer apply." His globalization program, often summarized under the tagline "think global, act global," had included an unprecedented amount of standardization. By the time he... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
innovative new financial derivatives or special-purpose vehicles, even if they serve on boards that are required to approve such potentially risky transactions. In fact, data on enrollment in executive education programs offered by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Certified Check
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner SafeBase Adar Arnon (MS/MBA 2020), CTO and cofounder Al Yang (MBA 2020), CEO and cofounder Concept: SafeBase serves as the go-between solution for vendors and organizations that need to verify user View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
shifting in the streaming era. The Remix Before release Old Model: Find the right label New model: Find the right platform If you’re an independent artist, music distribution platforms like TuneCore and CD Baby can get your music on... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand
job, she realized that there was something missing—she knew that she needed more to give her career an edge. “I could sense an increasing appetite for data and data-driven managerial decision-making,” says Ho. “I felt that this was a... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Data-Driven and in Demand
job, she realized that there was something missing—she knew that she needed more to give her career an edge. “I could sense an increasing appetite for data and data-driven managerial decision-making,” says Ho. “I felt that this was a... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which conducts an annual analysis of available labor data. Presumably, the Dodd-Frank rule, once it's mandated, will make more data available for such analyses. The Security and Exchange... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
More Retail Revolutions Sharing Designer Labels Rent the Runway, from Jenn Hyman and Jenny Fleiss (both MBA 2009), brings the sharing economy to the world of fashion, offering big-name dresses—and now accessories—for short-term rental... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
altitude. Imperfect Foods sold 40,000 of them. The company was founded with the goal of narrowing the yawning gap between supply and demand in the American food industry. The space is defined by two data points that, taken together, make... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
MORE Listen to Donna Dubinsky explain why we shouldn't fear the Terminator, on the Skydeck podcast Google can identify a dog because the search engine has been fed millions of images of dogs—all labeled as such by humans—and it’s used... View Details
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
with regards to data, design, and diversity on teams. We’ve discussed the potential stakes of our design intentions. We’ve questioned assumptions that stand to jeopardize our work. We’ve established that a well-equipped, qualified, diverse workforce is a boon to any... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
survey a sampling of the research questions these data help to answer. Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?
the same over time? Does it increase or decrease? A: Customer value changes over time, and in our data we find that the value is increasing over time. In general, we expect customer value to initially increase as the firm grows and later... View Details