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- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
reviews, to reward top achievers and put low performers on notice. The practical challenges of applying this system are illustrated in three brief vignettes. In the first two, students can assume the role of a manager charged with View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
Working PapersPlatform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper provides a basic conceptual framework for interpreting non-price instruments used by multi-sided platforms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
and broader interpretations of business's role in society surfaces throughout Keen's story. He wrote his HBS application essay about wanting to learn the tactics of corporate business for the good of tribal peoples—to be a sheep in wolf's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
letter aloud to him. The black activist strongly urged the chief executive to keep it to himself. If he sent it, Douglass said, the missive would be interpreted “as a complete surrender of your anti-slavery policy, and do you serious... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
algorithms developed for the same setting. More broadly, our paper contributes to the literature on the multi-armed bandit problem with resource constraints, since our algorithm applies directly to this setting when the inventory constraint is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
article they describe how to properly design and execute A/B and other controlled tests, ensure their integrity, interpret results, and avoid pitfalls. They argue that if a company sets up the right infrastructure and software, it will be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
as rule makers, referees, and players. In both value-net games and public interest games, governments establish the rules by which the players operate, acting as rule makers. But governments also interpret and enforce the rules,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
justify the investment. While HBS remains a leader in the field, Nohria observed that “you need to worry when the health of the whole field doesn’t look promising, even when you are at the top.” The third interpretation of inflection... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
hired an assistant specifically to be a “clock management expert” prior to his second year in 2018. Similarly, the Oakland Raiders hired a former referee to help advise coach Jon Gruden “on officiating matters, including replay challenges.” This can be View Details
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compensation and benefits, and interpretation of University and School policies and procedures. More about working in Human Resources Customer Base Staff Prospective Job Seekers Local Allston/Brighton Community Culture Although each... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
each distribution over the feasible subsets. Our rules can be interpreted as distance minimization-selecting the order closest to the population's preferences, using a metric on the orders that reflects the distribution over the possible... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and interpreting the results of time equations. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
private banker, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. They present different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis and make proposals about how a similar crisis might be stopped in the future. The goal of the case is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Then you have the self-improvement people who can’t read and interpret the science, and some of it’s wrong. Where it is really exciting now is the seam between science and self-improvement, and that’s what I’m working on. In the course... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
entrepreneurs as they pursue impact or scale, or both. In our framework, scale can be interpreted at two levels: either as operational efficiency, which is achieved by minimizing unit costs, or expanding reach to cover a large proportion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
principles. As a result, managers often end up interpreting statistical noise as causation-and making bad decisions. To conduct experiments that are worth the expense and effort, companies need to ask themselves several questions: Does... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18
ratings for all restaurants and compare them to the arithmetic averages displayed by Yelp. Depending on how we interpret the downward trend of reviews within a restaurant, we find 19.1%-41.38% of the simple average ratings are more than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
equilibrium, belief in the "American dream" is commonplace, workers exert effort, there are high powered contracts (and income is unequally distributed) and punishments are harsh. Economists who believe that deterrence (rather than retribution) shapes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
that listed scripts are twice as likely to be released as unlisted scripts and, conditional on release, generate a higher return on investment. Further evidence supports a causal interpretation of these differences in outcomes and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman