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- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
the so-called learning organization. Learning organizations try many things and keep what works. This process requires intensive testing of ideas as well as reliance on the data produced by the tests, rather than depending on untested... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
lacked the funds necessary to build a DVD factory and exited the consumer electronic industry almost entirely at the end of the 1990s. Again, this relatively unknown story provides an intriguing opportunity for description and analysis by... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
decade, piecing together what he called "the story"—the history of business. He accumulated vast amounts of data on hundreds of companies. In draft after draft, he molded these data into an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
and analysis with a pace that keeps you challenged and engaged. Lisa Arpey Executive Board Member at Ford's Theatre What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by:... View Details
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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
individual-level choice behavior to be recovered from the data," according to the researchers. The team tested the new model by looking at the marketing of prescription drugs, namely, statins, used to lower cholesterol levels in people at risk for cardiovascular... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
Tips for Choosing RAM: If your code runs on your local machine, start by asking for the same amount of RAM or less (for example, if your laptop has 8GB of RAM, try asking for 8GB). If you are loading in native binary data files, ask for... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
directions of change on processing times. Using data from 283 hospitals, we find (1) high congestion increases a patient's hospital stay up to 28%, indicating inefficiencies from overloaded resources; (2) a patient stays up to 11.7%... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
enterprise has shown that there are fundamental tensions between pursuing scale economies and playing the spreads. (See the table "Conflicting Challenges.") The data indicate that there is some merit to classifying companies... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
International Trade Finance Practices Authors: Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction-level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
own emissions based on their spending data they could be spending less or more in any given month, so people who emit less might pay as little as $10 a month. For instance, students who have lower credit card purchases or people who have... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
racial disparities in wealth and income. And because homeownership is one of the principal ways in which families build wealth, housing, race, and economic inequality are all intertwined. It is no accident, for instance, that data from... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
Summing Up: Will Access To Big Data Further Enable Fact-based Decision Making Or Analysis Paralysis? "To T. S. Eliot's prescient words 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and change the mix of marketing promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
that sold them on Casper—it was the numbers. The company had tested well in a revolutionary predictive model built by the venture firm. The idea to vet possible investments in such a way hit Coats about a decade ago: Maybe, he figured, he could use View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
established space programs that combined peaceful exploration and scientific research with military and intelligence activities. “The leading space companies are pushing the technological envelope so fast that if you want to be at the... View Details