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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
information regarding diagnosis and prognosis, predict treatment efficacy or toxicity, serve as markers of disease progression, and serve as auxiliary endpoints for clinical trials. Some have multiple uses, while others have a specialized... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Finalists | New Venture Competition
Finalists Business Track, 2025 Accio Alex Zannos (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MS/MBA 2025) Streamline and automates the hardware manufacturing process. Argus Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025) Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Accelerating AI model... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gsj.28/abstract Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors:Carliss Baldwin and Eric von Hippel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast majority of operating systems, influencing both the way these systems work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
"…This study suggests that just as there is no single management model that can be applied unilaterally across cultures, there is no unified Asian style of management. Market orientation, innovation, organizational climate, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
desires, it doesn't have needs. It's basically taking in sensory data and trying to make a model of the world and make predictions and understand the world around it. That's the part of the AI thing that... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
model, poor people give little because they expect donations to come mainly from richer individuals. In others, donations by poor individuals constitute a large fraction of donations, and this raises the incentive for poor people to donate. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
public firms increased investments by just 1.6 percent versus 7.4 percent at the matched private firms. The researchers hypothesized that short-termist pressure was the reason behind this disparity. In order to test the theory they analyzed whether their data fit the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
unique data set on the career histories of Indian bureaucrats supports the key predictions of our framework. We find that politicians use frequent reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance as a means of control.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
Choudhury and his team built a “CEO Bot” by providing a large language model with all internal and external communications from the real boss, including emails and Slack messages. The idea was to create a machine “stand-in” that could... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
focused on a single industry or country and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that gender diversity’s effect on performance is determined by both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
model that would help policy makers to predict the implications of entry regulations more accurately, and in particular the competitive implications of the different store formats." View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
the knowledge base for the disease. And last, researchers needed a proper mouse model for lab studies. Prize4Life sprung out of HBS in 2006 with a full complement of newly minted MBAs on board and with guidance from current and former... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
model for the future?” she asks. Hanging on her office wall is a poster that reads: “The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Invent It.” That’s exactly what Ivy Ross intends to do. View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
tractor technology generalized. The sequence of diffusion is consistent with a model of R&D in specific- versus general-purpose attributes and with other historical examples, suggesting that the key to understanding technology... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
valuation estimates to examine whether analysts reliably assess the risk surrounding a firm's fundamental value. We find that the spread in analysts' state-side contingent valuations captures the riskiness of operations and predicts the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
infringing on the NPEs' patents. We support these predictions using a novel, large dataset of patents targeted by NPEs. We show that NPEs on average target firms that are flush with cash (or have just had large positive cash shocks).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
Future. "One of the biggest unknowns right now is what Saddam Hussein will be allowed to do. Most people think that his reserves are very, very large. If he were free to expand the production and export of oil, that would definitely bring down prices." Supply and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
increasingly difficult to “plan” one’s way to success. So what is the solution? Emulate successful entrepreneurs. In this book, based on extensive research and interviews, Baker Foundation Professor Schlesinger and his coauthors show how to apply the simple View Details