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- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
experts from industry. Your team needs both ML engineers (often PhD level) and top software engineers who can productize and deploy AI. (Ideally you want talent who can do both, but good luck finding them!) There's a limited supply of ML... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
comparability and therefore no best practice, only "it all depends." Worse yet, we are often not conscious of these influences. Mauboussin maintains that we too often underestimate the importance of luck in the outcomes of our... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
frictions play a first-order role in determining market prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49425 Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
because luck prevails. Piketty (1995) had shown that a similar pattern could arise from standard preferences if initial beliefs about the relative importance of effort and luck in generating income differed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
been negligent; it's more notable when a good company screws up. But if the insurance argument held true, then greener companies should at least see more favorable coverage when spills occur, with the media being more likely to attribute them to chance or bad View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
are paving their own way," Kraus says. "But even if you're not an entrepreneur, you can still harness that ability to pave your own way by creating a plan and reassessing when bad luck shows up." Finding Your 'flow' Students learn about... View Details
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
activities. Executives also should try to replace the feeling of luck the favored group has with one of responsibility instead. In the GlobalMoves case, executives could have asked the native speakers to help colleagues who are struggling... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
right funds to follow. Since distinguishing ability from luck in investing is always a challenge, that last requirement may not be so easy to fulfill. Q: Do you think the Web-based data input accounting standards such as XBRL would affect... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
alliances with other firms. By looking at cases in which a solo firm narrowly outbid an alliance—or vice versa—Beshears could be confident he was looking at situations in which both types of business organizations were developing comparable tracts. In other words,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
eyeballs," says Zhu, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. "Content providers are serving advertisers rather than the audience, and consumers with niche preferences will be out of luck because the content they're... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
determine the types of contracts that firms order and whether workers exert effort. Some workers become criminals, depending on their luck in the labor market, the expected punishment, and an individual shock that we call... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
thus does not disturb current motivation,” the researchers write. “For high-performing salespeople, because they are more immune to the disutility of effort, even if they experienced bad luck earlier in the month, they would put in the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Henry Ellis added that wWhile Google is massive and profitable, "they have one product that makes all the money the primary key to their success is patience, determination, and luck, with luck being the spark." Questions about... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
of employer-sponsored insurance—$4,500 in 2011. Absent the requirement that healthy people buy insurance, it is likely that the individual insurance market will consist primarily of sick people. They will have $ 4,500 to buy a policy with average expenses of up to... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
performance being attributed more to luck rather than skill and effort, which can create incentives to shift earnings toward lower-uncertainty periods. We show that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew C. Abstract—U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
success, for example, leads to an unreasonable fear of failure, a mindset that inhibits risk taking, a focus on past performance rather than potential, and blindness to the role of luck in successes and failures. Managers, therefore, need... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
other. Consider the experience of a friend who was recently shopping for a new car. He'd always had good luck with Fords and was inclined to stick with them, especially after driving the latest model. After some back and forth, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler