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- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
chains and people analytics to artificial intelligence-based models and automated biotechnology research, organizations further along the digital curve are responding differently than those still wondering how to evolve. The digital... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
astronomical -- as much as $33 billion worldwide by 2004, according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system maintenance costs, and hence to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
data across 26 nations. National individualism-collectivism scores predicted viewing collectivistic traits as more—and individualistic traits as less—stereotypically masculine. Taken together, these data offer support for the cultural... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
potential payoffs of e-commerce investments. Measuring returns on e-commerce projects can be a daunting challenge. Predicting customer behavior is difficult, because using the Web to do business is still relatively new to many businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- Web
Demo Day | New Venture Competition
Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025), Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Argus Systems accelerates AI model development for physical AI. Atlas Reese Dorrepaal (MBA 2025), Meredith Rintoul (MBA 2025) Atlas is an AI-powered money assistant that helps the 91... View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
Henry Ford think he could keep selling black-only Model Ts? "Denial has always been a problem," writes Harvard Business School historian Richard S. Tedlow in a new book, Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face-and What... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a new... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
magnitude of 3% to 7% lower than corresponding buy-and-hold fund returns. Using factor models of risk and the estimated dollar-weighted performance gap, we find that the real alpha of hedge fund investors is close to zero. In absolute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
activity-based costing (TDABC), a model that identifies the time of people and equipment used to perform a service and their cost. TDABC relies on accurate mapping of all the processes patients go through in the course of a visit to the... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Traditional academic models of asset allocation are often at odds with conventional wisdom on investing. According to your research, some of this conventional wisdom might actually make sense for long-term investors. How does static... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
mechanics of private banking and federal finance correct. Their models are therefore fatally flawed, so their predictions of doom (and inflation) should not be taken seriously.” Is JohnfrmCleveland right? Is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine. The results of our comparative study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
behavior. We examine the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
Explain the theoretical model you describe in your paper and how it can help retailers decide whether a voucher service like Groupon makes sense for them. A: We present a model of online discount vouchers... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
books: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov; Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card; and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain. In Foundation, actually a series of books, fast-forward into the future where a “psychohistorian,” who uses mathematical View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
and a half. Think aircraft-like operation on earth via space. Perhaps even more importantly, the model would allow to bring the costs down to hundreds of dollars per kilogram. And while it has come down from $25,000 to $5,000 per... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving,... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace