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- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
Criticism, and The Age of Parody. "We tried to extrapolate bigger themes that would be helpful to brand managers as they looked at this new culture," Avery says. The Age of the Social Collective refers to the way that social... View Details
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
spirals, especially how to turn around a downward spiral. At what point, with what tactics, and how strongly, do you intervene when there's a downslide? I always try to push the students to consider how these questions and possible solutions can be View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
employees," says Sadun. In extrapolating from the data, Sadun cautions the sample size used in the study was relatively small (though exponentially bigger than any past research on the topic), and that the results of the study... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
performed in the lab, Luca extrapolates the findings to apply to consumers (receivers), who want to know the true quality of a product, while sellers (senders) hide it from them. "Customers were not inferring the worst, and sellers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Research in Finance for "X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model" ( Journal of Financial Economics , 2015) with Nicholas Barberis, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer. The Treynor Prize recognizes superior academic working... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
extrapolations of buying behavior in socially distanced contagion conditions. Second, the pandemic has accelerated trends that were in progress before, like omnichannel buying and multichannel selling. Third, the need to ramp-up virtual... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
same race” Extrapolating from his research, Zhang says it’s not enough to put together diverse teams in order to reduce bias. Regularly working with people of other races does not guarantee that managers will treat those who look... View Details
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
people anxious by listening to a short music clip and see how they suffer in mock negotiations, then we can extrapolate the effects of anxiety to the pressures of the real world, where it's likely to have an even more profound... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
stages, which the course calls extrapolation – the period of dramatic top-line growth that occurs midway through a typical S-curve, after a venture has confirmed product-market fit and raised its first round of VC financing. Adopting the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
time, researchers would be able to predict financial vulnerability. Enter the BFFS project, which focuses on five areas: regulation and monetary policy, measuring bubbles, extrapolation and neglected risks, the size and structure of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
financial crises. “If beliefs and expectations can be measured in real time,” says Greenwood, “it would be easier to anticipate financial vulnerability and take measures to prevent future crises.” BFFS Project research focuses on five areas: regulation and monetary... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
him on Goldman’s recently published first quarter results. “The economy feels better than it did a year ago,” replied Paulson with caution. “Things have turned, but our business is lumpy. You can’t extrapolate too much from the last... View Details
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
interpretation, the trend-chasing behavior of young managers reflects their attempts to learn and extrapolate from the little data they have experienced in their career." Did the young fund managers also play a significant role in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
small enough to avoid extortion. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50675 Extrapolation and Bubbles By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
intervene when there’s a downslide? I always try to push the students to consider how these questions and possible solutions can be extrapolated to organizational settings.” Concludes Polzer, “The best teams are those that not only... View Details
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
store; simultaneously, new customers are attracted to the direct channels, perhaps due to a branding effect stemming from the publicity surrounding the new store, which makes customers more aware of and more comfortable with the firm's direct channel operations. Use... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
platform that made Enron the top buyer and seller of gas and electricity in the United States and Europe in its first year of operation. Many examples of extremely inept management are also positioned here—activities for which there is no criminal liability: the naïve... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
organizational adoption of practice variants that differ in their degree of customization. Working Papers X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
borrowers in the sector: heterogeneity—the fact that all small businesses are different, making it difficult to extrapolate from one example to the next—and information opacity, the fact that it is hard to know what is really going on... View Details