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13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

week in advance of delivery. Looking to determine how personal decisions made for tomorrow differ from decisions made for several days from now, researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst Institute evaluated a year's worth of customer orders from an View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA

and will not figure into honors calculations. For the purpose of evaluating academic performance, a “Low Pass” on an Independent Project will be treated as a Category III grade and a “Fail” grade will be treated as a Category IV grade. View Details

18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

on practical measures that businesses can implement to create shared value. Originally published in an online forum hosted by Harvard Business Review, it offers valuable advice about how CEOs, other senior executives, and boards of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary employee View Details

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

don't know what Twitter is. In 2015, the average American spent more than one-third of her media interaction time online and around one-third watching television, 10 percent reading magazines and newspapers, and 10 percent listening to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

15 Jun 2021
News

Turning Point: Tell Me More

years. It was a fascinating deep dive into the psyche of voters, just as my former company had done to help brands understand their target customers. Via the online panel, I reported to the Clinton campaign with weekly insights. It was... View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

24 Sep 2019
News

Connecting Patients and Providers

businessman, he also saw the medical industry’s lost opportunity. The solution, Jarzabek says, is Trustedoctor’s secure online platform that streamlines communication between inbound patients and doctors. Hospitals that adopt the... View Details

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

to fill out a "Web survey about student behaviors," which comprised 15 yes/no questions. Unbeknownst to them, the participants were randomly assigned to one of three user-interface conditions. In some cases, they took an online survey... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 21, 2010

welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of "regular" Americans into these debates by asking a nationally representative online panel to estimate the current distribution of wealth in the United States and to "build a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2025
News

Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)

South of the border: “Both sides of my family are from northern Mexico; my mom’s side is from Hermosillo, Sonora, just a four- or five-hour drive from Tucson.” On the beat: “I was captain of the drumline in my high school marching band and played in the jazz band with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

http://www.people.hbs.edu/acuddy/in%20press,%20carney,%20cuddy,%20&%20yap,%20psych%20science.pdf Telegraphs—Shrinking Economic Distances? A Preliminary Enquiry, 1870s-1912 Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Publication: Business Archives: Sources & History, no. 99... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55323 Harvard Business School Case 119-020 LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged) LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Allen Yang

PepsiCo's foodservice division, and became a product engineer at a start-up, Yipit, an online aggregator of daily deal services, such as Groupon and LivingSocial. "Being accepted to HBS gave me the courage to try new things,"... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Tech; Financial Services

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How to Apply | Research Associates

How to Apply Process All Research Associates are hired by Research Staff Services. RAs are hired throughout the year based on faculty need. Open positions are posted on Careers@Harvard. Applicants must apply online in this portal to be... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

sprints. The alumni and practitioners joined virtually, from what Professor Karim R. Lakhani has taken to calling “the universe deck.” In the classroom and in the online chat for this short intensive program (SIP), participants debated... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

differs significantly from a traditional lending bank. Once an application is filed, the lending platform collects information on borrowers through online self-reporting and by pulling credit reports. The platform automatically requests... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

evaluate the appearance of the hundreds of thousands of images, the authors used data from a crowdsourced study conducted by Hidalgo’s team in 2013. In the study, online participants were shown pairs of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

15 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

revenue for Amazon, in addition to the additional value the online retailing giant gets from the loyalty customers feel once they are enrolled. "THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT PRIME MEMBERS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR AMAZON, AND IT GIVES... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail

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Arum Kang

As an assistant buyer fresh out of college, Arum Kang felt ready to test her quantitative skills on the retail floors of Lord & Taylor in New York City. "I'm very analytical," Arum says. "Working with consumer data and... View Details

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