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- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
of that company’s overall goal. “They put in a proxy that they wanted to not only acquire customers, but retain them as well.” Identify and collect as much relevant data as possible. Once executives set an overall goal, they can feed...
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by Michael Blanding
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
applications—a process comprising about 600,000 individual data-entry tasks. The research team matched that data to meteorological data in Tokyo during that period. (Tokyo is a city that sees its View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
determinant of choices than fairness, and iii) agents display a marked propensity to work for principals with similar distributional concerns. Working PapersReport on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
regulations needed to be based on hard science and engineering knowledge. To achieve this, collaboration with the Swedish government was seen as instrumental and joint R&D was regarded as a means to share knowledge and costs. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 after a 12-year absence, the company he co-founded was dispirited, rudderless, and near bankruptcy. In a staff meeting, Jobs shared his plan for revitalizing the struggling brand, touching on one...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Research - Private Capital Project
financing structure; then, it discusses other investment vehicles like... June 2023 Journal of Financial Economics Why Is Dollar Debt Cheaper? Evidence from Peru By: Bryan Gutiérrez, Victoria Ivashina and Juliana Salomao In emerging markets, a significant View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
real wages have not been increasing, although compensation often falls rather low on the list of things that employees seek out of the employment "deal." Q: What is the culture cycle? A: The culture cycle begins with the establishment and communication of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Abstract This paper constructs an index of financial sophistication that, in comprehensive data on Swedish households, best explains a set of three investment mistakes: underdiversification, risky share...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
sorting the data took 55,000 computer hours. “It’s an astounding amount of data,” she says. In an initial analysis, the researchers found that the total number of global emails spiked after lockdowns and work-at-home orders were issued in...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
algorithms make decisions, even for a few seconds, you open yourself up to all kinds of challenges. Consumer privacy and cybersecurity are huge ones. Companies are vulnerable to people coming in and stealing data and getting user...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55886 Can Biometric Tracking Improve Healthcare Provision and Data Quality? Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control in India By: Bossuroy, Thomas, Clara...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 2011
- Working Paper
Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers
By: Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer and Michael W. Toffel
Process-improvement ideas often come from frontline workers who speak up by voicing concerns about problems and by taking charge to resolve them. We hypothesize that organization-wide process-improvement campaigns encourage both forms of speaking up, especially voicing...
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Communication;
Employees;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Management Practices and Processes;
Operations;
Business Processes;
Performance Improvement
Adler-Milstein, Julia, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel. "Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-005, July 2010. (Revised Sept. 2011. Best Theory-to-Practice Paper Award by Academy of Management's Health Care Management Division. Selected for Best Paper Proceedings of the 2011 Academy of Management Meeting.)
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
inadequate updating of the customer database. Also, the budgeting data in the case may be used to teach regression model selection and R-squared. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109070...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
Entrepreneurs have to have a clear sense of the opportunity and how to build the business. But the best ones are willing to reexamine their assumptions and are willing to veer left or right or pivot all the way around when the data...
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by Lauren Barley
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
studying markets with tendencies toward "early" hiring. Our data make clear that the movement of the clerkship market back to the third year of law school is highly valued by judges, but we also find that a strong majority of...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
not about how well you answered questions in an interview. You need to put in place processes that give you more data about the person’s behavioral fit.” And once on staff, workers benefit from constructive feedback. So companies should...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Events - Business History
for teaching, research, or general interest. At this online conference, speakers shared their experiences using CEM transcripts and video materials for teaching in different institutional contexts in Europe, India, Latin America, and the...
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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
2014 Harvard Business Review Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business By: Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—When Google bought Nest, a maker of digital thermostats, for $3.2 billion...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
business world. Thank you for reading, and please share your stories with us at bei@hbs.edu! – Lynn Schenk, BEI Director Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste “I...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
sale was prompted by a co-founder who wanted to sell his share of the business. The case explores the rationale for owners to monetize at least a portion of their company's value and the sales process. Additionally, it compares two...
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Sean Silverthorne