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- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
have to be, say, United Airlines to take advantage of these tools. Managers can now purchase off-the-shelf products that can mine Twitter or Yelp and develop a detailed analysis of how sentiment is changing in real time. “It has basically... View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
customers be able to see what pieces of data may have led to a loan rejection or a lower credit limit? Should regulators have access to the algorithms and test them for the impact they have on underserved or protected classes? The Apple... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
about by abnormal genes, such as Alzheimer's disease or cancer. Clearly, genomics could be a gold mine for drug makers. Today, drug development is an expensive and long process—it can take up to ten years and $600 million to develop a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
were published in the paper, Financial vs. Strategic Buyers. The research team first scoured data of private equity firms in the United States that had set out to buy underperforming companies and turn them around—with the goal of a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. But instead of mining for... View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Mining for Growth in an Economic Crisis Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi, and Elisa FarriHarvard Business School Case 610-021 In December 2008, Gianluigi Nova, CEO of Tenova SpA, a technology and equipment supplier to the metals and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
on," says Harvard Business School marketing professor Gerald Zaltman. A more strategic approach to data mining can provide the foundation for that decision-making architecture. Below, advice on how to... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
fulfillment that uses centralized inventory management. We ask whether, and if so, how, showrooms benefit the two most basic retail objectives: demand generation and operational efficiency. Using quasi-experimental data on showroom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
PapersThe Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making Authors:Pablo, F. Casas-Arce, Asís Martínez-Jerez, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of providing forward-looking metrics on employee decision making. We use View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
data. The third section also provides recent data on infrastructure investments and public-private partnerships. The final section discusses current and likely future trends. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
customer-to-customer communications promote different types of usage? We study these questions using two data sets and by developing a multivariate hierarchical Poisson hidden Markov model (HMM), which fits the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
mainstream research would accept the data source. I’m sure tons of others will now begin to mine them. The other striking thing is the importance these iconic entrepreneurs give to a sense of purpose, some... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
views matter. And it can turn departing employees into corporate ambassadors for years to come. Unfortunately, too few leaders pay attention to this tool; their programs fail to either improve retention or produce useful information. The authors believe this is owing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors: Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads to superior or deficient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
United States. Along with Jiao Luo and Stephan Meier, both of Columbia Business School, Oberholzer-Gee collected data on several thousand oil and chemical spills (most of them, thankfully, quite small) over a six-year period from 2001 to... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
Implementing a 'Social Way' for Global Mining The mining giant Anglo American attempts to differentiate itself through its social performance, yet public expectations are still growing. Maintaining a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
of strong ties to resistors accruing to the change agent are weaker and may yet turn into liabilities that reduce the likelihood of change adoption. Analyses of longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne