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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Keep Your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections

By: Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti, Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons
A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences. In the median voter theorem, this outcome emerges as candidates strategically adjust their platform to get closer to their opponent. Despite its... View Details
Keywords: Political Ideology; Political Elections; United States; France
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    Michael L. Tushman

    Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was... View Details

    • March–April 2023
    • Article

    Market Segmentation Trees

    By: Ali Aouad, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira and Ryan McNellis
    Problem definition: We seek to provide an interpretable framework for segmenting users in a population for personalized decision making. Methodology/results: We propose a general methodology, market segmentation trees (MSTs), for learning market... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Trees; Computational Advertising; Market Segmentation; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce; Consumer Behavior; Marketplace Matching; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing
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    • January 2020
    • Article

    Assessing the Safety of Electronic Health Records: A National Longitudinal Study of Medication-related Decision Support

    By: A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Melissa Danforth, David Classen and David Bates
    Background Electronic health records (EHR) can improve safety via computerised physician order entry with clinical decision support, designed in part to alert providers and prevent potential adverse drug events at entry and before they reach the patient.... View Details
    Keywords: Hospital; Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Safety; Performance; Quality; Performance Improvement
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    • 11 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

    “ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 26 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 26

    fosters a process of personalization of management learning. This process allows management education to provide the foundations for leaders' development by transforming potentially regressive MBA experiences into rich material for... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    First Look -- September 1, 2015

    framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49238 Through the Grapevine: Network Effects on the Design of Executive Compensation Contracts... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    period, we use a program eligibility threshold to investigate the impact of AI technology on the task allocation of software developers within a quasi-experimental regression discontinuity design. We find... View Details
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    Help - Alumni

    consecutive characters from your LEFA. (e.g. A password for jharvard@mba1908.hbs.edu may not contain "rva" or "jha" or "hbs" or "mba") You may reset your password online . If you have forgotten your password and you do not have a contact email adderss View Details
    • 21 Feb 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

    projects is higher quality than in technology areas without failure news." Based on regression analyses, Krieger estimates at least 129 of the terminated projects in his study would have continued if not for learning about... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health
    • Web

    Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

    decisions Recognize trends, detect outliers, and summarize data sets Analyze relationships between variables Develop and test hypotheses Craft sound survey questions and draw conclusions from population samples Implement regression... View Details
    • Web

    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    over small changes in their collective interest levels to implement a regression discontinuity approach. We confirm the positive effects for venture operations, with qualitative support for a higher... View Details
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    Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship

    Loan Reduction ROCK CENTER LOAN REDUCTION PROGRAM The Rock Center Loan Reduction Program helps to reduce the educational debt repayment burden for a limited number of graduating student founders committed to the fulltime pursuit of their for-profit entrepreneurial... View Details
    • 14 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

    academic psychologists, Harvard Business School professors, directors of organizations, and government officials. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51447 Winter 2017 Oxford Review of Economic Policy The Market View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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    Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

    industry. Show Hide Details Modules Describing and Summarizing Data Sampling and Estimation Hypothesis Testing Single Variable Linear Regression Multiple Regression Featured Exercises Determine sample size... View Details
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    Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

    path from dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details
    • 24 Oct 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

    displayed to consumers. By applying a regression discontinuity analysis, Luca could study how revenues jumped when star thresholds were crossed and compare these with the more steady changes over time. The... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • 12 Jan 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 12

    success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An offer's probability of acceptance View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

    organizational design that has not one, but two "operating systems." One system conducts the everyday business of business, while the second system, more like an agile network, sits alongside to focus on the opportunities and demands of... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard
    • 02 Feb 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 2

    will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system components, while developers with... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace