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- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
analytical expression that reveals the forces determining optimal commodity taxation. We then calibrate the model to evidence on the relationship between skills and preferences and extensively examine the quantitative case for taxes on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
to their dismissal. A link between tenure and effectiveness We developed a simple model to analyze the relationship between coach tenure and effectiveness using NFL data from 2000 to 2015. The model used winning percentage as the outcome... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
answer two key questions. Can anyone, including MBAs and executives with superb analytical skills, learn to think more innovatively? If so, how might we go about developing these skills? Through close collaboration with individuals from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
co-working office space at 114 Western Avenue and creating co-working space at 25 Travis Street housing both HBS Online and the HBS Information Technology group. IT security, digital infrastructure, data, and analytics play an... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
from analytics when they haven’t declared it themselves. If marketers avoid those tactics, use data judiciously, focus on increasing trust and transparency, and offer people control over their personal data,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
University College of London; MBA’17, Harvard University Dan Nevius is a Co-Founder and COO of Analytical Space, a Boston-based startup building a network of small satellites that use optical communication to provide a View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
custom voice system, which means there’s a whole range of small- and mid-sized businesses that are underserved,” Sambvani says. With Slang.ai, he’s offering mid-market companies access to these more sophisticated tools that can immediately route urgent calls to a human... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and control, to design thinking and innovative problem solving, to data science and machine learning. And I know I could not have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
elevated respect for data-driven, fact-based, analytical decision-making. The problem is that data are only available about the past. If you’re trying to be innovative, and you have this data-driven mindset,... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and data on the well-being of over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
in determining how and when to abandon intuition in favor of a more deliberate, analytical approach. Intuition And Rationality In Negotiation To explain why individuals don't always think rationally and logically, Keith Stanovich of the... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
commanders practice a form of analytic triage by focusing on two negative possibilities, discarding almost everything else. The first element is anticipating the enemy's most likely course of action. The second is preparing for the... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
isn't grounded in the data in the case, the instructor is trained to crucify her right on the spot. And so we exalt the virtues of data-driven decision making. And then many of the students go to work for consulting firms where they carry... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected by the agency distortions commonly found in full-fledged state-owned firms. Using panel data from publicly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
an appendix detailing 10 math facts numerate people should know. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students entering advanced data analytics courses, as well as data... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
before we fully locked and loaded the business case. It’s a great example of how we are trying to shift to be customer-focused, take some of the emotion out, and let the analytics help drive it.” “The genius of all-day breakfast,” says... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
have a higher probability of walking by the clinic for reasons other than vaccination. Method: We obtained data from an employer with a free workplace influenza vaccination clinic. Using each employee’s building entry/exit swipe card... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Using Excel 2007: A Step-by-Step Approach Harvard Business School Note 109-052 The objective of this note is to provide a set of easy, step-by-step guides for some analytical techniques that are useful in the analysis of cases discussed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna