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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
since 2007 by Cynthia Carroll (MBA ’89), the first woman and first non–South African to hold the firm’s top spot. In addition to South Africa, from which it derives roughly half its profits, Anglo operates in some 45 countries, employing... View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
(relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and morality. We apply principles derived from the literature on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
derived from achiote tree seeds, to make their butter look summery all year round. Late in the nineteenth century, dye manufacturers started supplying synthetic food coloring to dairy producers for the purpose of coloring butter and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
performance that are derived through an aggregation of measures of individual business units and functions. It is important to evaluate the performance of both overall e-commerce performance and the specific aspects of e-commerce that... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
demands can sometimes cost more than the revenue actually generated. By studying numerous companies and their customers across multiple industries, the researchers learned that the way firms derive profit through the customer management... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
medium's effectiveness will derive more from its abundance of selectable information than from its ability to stir viewer emotions. A consumer can now order a new car online, for instance, selecting from a lengthy menu of carefully... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental variables approach derived from a regression discontinuity, we find that increasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
most profitable. "Not only are merchandise profits higher under contingent free shipping than under free shipping, but our estimates imply that the firm could derive even higher merchandise profits by increasing both its flat... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
the Big Thinker." Gerald Nanninga cautioned us that "the big risk is that it gives executives a false sense of comfort." Clifford Francis Baker added, "My concern is primarily focused on the possibility of complacency data derived from... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
decisions to them. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53665 Expected Stock Returns Worldwide: A Log-Linear Present-Value Approach By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Expected return proxies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
the effect of a single drug on multiple adverse events by analyzing data that accumulate sequentially and explicitly captures interdependencies among the multiple events. The method continuously monitors a vector-valued test-statistic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2015
- Blog Post
"Every Day at HBS is a Gift"
method derives most of its value from learning from your peers The general management curriculum means almost everyone is going to have at least one class they find easy and at least one class they struggle with, so there’s an incentive... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
input more valuable. Distributed supermodular complementarity (DSMC) exists when two or more independent actors can create complementary value by pursuing their own interests and will not find it advantageous to combine in order to coordinate their actions. I View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
series of studies demonstrates that people confer higher status and competence to nonconforming rather than conforming individuals. These positive inferences derived from signals of nonconformity are mediated by perceived autonomy and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
Working Papers Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements By: Schmidt, William, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—We examine how people make decisions when the value they derive from those decisions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
decision making based on probabilities derived from very small samples of data. The Bayesians in some ways freed decision makers from the burden and expenses (in terms of money, but especially in terms of time) of large-sample information... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
corrupt and criminal money from around the world. That's correct. Approximately half of that sum is generated by violent criminal activity, such as organized trafficking in drugs, weapons, or people. The other half is illegal flight capital — tax-evading money View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a simple setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it trades off the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
and if so, was it moving fast enough? What new sources of revenue could Ford derive from mobility solutions? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/614018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-048 Boeing 787:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
accountability and span of control to motivate different levels of innovation and entrepreneurial behavior. Six propositions are derived inductively about when, why, and how managers make these choices. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino