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- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
of improvement, rather than changes in income level or displacement of residents over time.) Education is a catalyst for neighborhood improvement What did seem to matter the most were two factors: population density and education. “The... View Details
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
coupled with any number of other data sources to perform unique and more detailed analyses on factors like demographic disparities, political alignment, or population density in relation to local COVID-19 policies. What’s next for the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
decided to lie were more likely to activate a high-density network (Experiments 1-3). Using a mediation-by-moderation approach (Experiment 4), we confirm that this link between dishonesty and network density is explained by a threat to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
whether we are entering the next stage in what might be termed an era of neuromanagement. In it, a group of researchers claim to have found that brain structure and the density of cells in the right posterior parietal cortex are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
proximity to headquarters and corporate siblings are associated with superior performance trends following information disclosure. We also find that regional density moderates effect of establishment size on performance improvement. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Rubber Company, and Lever Brothers. Here Polaroid began producing polarizing filters for gunsights, binoculars, periscopes, rangefinders, and infra-red night viewing devices. With variable density goggles, anti-aircraft and machine... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
to do that. We have to let people go vertical so that we can declutter the roads. There are a lot of people who don’t want to do it; they don’t want to see more density in their backyard. I’m hopeful that the policymakers will begin to... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
view sales networks only in terms of direct contacts. But someone who knows lots of people doesn't necessarily have an effective network because networks often pay off most handsomely through indirect contacts. Moreover, the density of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
Approximately half of Mumbai lives in informal settlements—such as Dharavi (pictured below). These settlements have significantly higher density than the rest of the city and often lack green spaces resulting in 6-8ºC warmer heat bubbles... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
national leaders are largely paralyzed either by politics or by budgets. In practice, local leaders can often take more pragmatic action, faster. Mayors can influence municipal purchasing, building zoning for density and efficiency, taxi... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
Grushka-Cockayne Abstract—We introduce an exponential smoothing model that a manager can use to forecast the demand of a new product or service. The model has five features that make it suitable for accurately forecasting product life cycles at scale. First, the trend... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
capture—which isn't tied to a specific place. Those systems can be anywhere that CO2 is available in the atmosphere. Which is everywhere. JM: The density of those molecules is much less, therefore it's a much more difficult sort of energy... View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
networks given that there was a more sophisticated system of formal institutions to mediate transactions and obtain capital and information. Our hypothesis is confirmed by three related results: 1) the total number of connections (i.e., the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
regulation and high levels of press freedom; when they serve buyers located in countries where consumers are wealthy and socially conscious; and, among factories in developing countries, those situated in states with more international labor treaty obligations and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
empirical framework, which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical observation, we develop an instrument—the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
together to support community health There will be more recognition of the interconnected systems that account for the need for care, access to care, and care outcomes. The availability of jobs and their safety, housing density and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
industry and home region, (2) the size of the investment syndicate, (3) target company maturity, and (4) the density of relationships among the other members of the syndicate. Entrepreneurship: Field of Dreams? Authors:Olav Sorenson and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical observation, we develop an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
more than 800,000 residents, yet only measures two square kilometers, roughly half the size of Manhattan's Central Park. Most homes are single-story structures and the density is 3,000 persons per hectare (compared to 43 in London, 100 in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
know about that I just have to keep writing you about it!” (8) In a memo dated December 1962, Adams offered observations on the density and contrast of Type 55 P/N film, which produced reusable 4×5 negatives from which multiple prints... View Details