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- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
explained that the world of business analytics includes descriptive analytics (analyzing what has happened), predictive analytics (analyzing data to figure out what will probably happen), and prescriptive analytics (using data to decide... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
manufacturers often discard the products sent to them by outside inventors without even looking at them. Because of their hurdle rate—the minimum return required on a contemplated investment—they probably don't have the time or resources... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
individual students. Oscar Tendilla was a young man, a Mexican immigrant, who gets admitted into P-TECH. His family is under severe financial circumstances, and he's significantly behind in grade eight. He believes he probably won't be... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
place diminishes wait satisfaction while increasing the probabilities of switching and abandoning queues, with detrimental implications for service capacity. The research suggests that last place aversion can lead to maladaptive customer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
recent firm performance? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/say-on-pay-qualcomm-inc-shareholders-vote-maybe-in-2012/an/114005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-047 Aqua Bounty Valuation of a pre-revenue biotech company at IPO using View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
as well as something with enormous social value because a lot of food goes to waste. Q: Can you give us other examples of how this works in practice? A: In Brazil, Banco Real has grown in 10 years from a small behind-the-pack bank to the second largest and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
everyone is affected identically by noncompetes. Our research shows that those with specialized skills (such as speech recognition engineering) are impacted more than those with more generally applicable skills. For instance, C++ programmers can View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
until recently. "Over the past 24 months, cap rates have dropped probably 200 to 300 basis points," says Furber. "That's a monster change and somewhat unprecedented." Up for debate is whether the structural changes of... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
reasons why the leadership literature has been recast so that it is solely focused on economic performance, but we believe probably the most important thing is that the obsession with shareholder value beginning in the 1980s led... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
long-term economic growth and inflation. The Fed can affect long-term rates only to the extent that it can influence those expectations. Long-term conservative investors should not probably be in the business of speculating on the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
to the point where analysts can “fingerprint” particular authors by the probability of how they use connecting words like “the,” “and,” and “that.” More recently, machine learning has moved into the realm of detecting emotion by examining... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
firms and alliances head-to-head in a meaningful way, which requires measuring their performance in similar situations. "When you see an alliance over here, and a solo firm over there, there's a good reason for that," says Beshears. "That's because the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
probably never again amount to more than about 10 percent of total employment in any of the world's developed economies and (2) the return of manufacturing activity to the US will have to be accompanied by increased productivity, View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
rather than creative manipulation." He suggests that this should be of special value to long-term shareholders. These responses suggest a wide variety of views, with most coming down on the side of modest returns on investment, at best, from Section 404. It is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that a greater probability of breakthroughs comes at the cost of a greater View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
$260,000. Minority applicants had a 22 percent probability of being matched with minority loan officers, the authors found. Meanwhile, white applicants had a 95 percent probability of working with a white... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market Authors:Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda, and M. Julia Prats Abstract Our paper contributes to the studies on the relationship between workers' human capital and their decision to become self-employed as well as their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised marriage rates and the probability of having children for young native men and women. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
that the effect is predominantly driven by innovators located in the states passing the reforms. Tort laws have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
rented before want DVDs. Specifically, a 1.3% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline rate of 12%) ensues if the first of two sequentially rented movies has more should and fewer want characteristics than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace