Internet Of Things - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2018
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Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com

By: Weijia Dai, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee and Michael Luca

Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd, the way in which they are aggregated is a central decision faced by platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in... View Details

Keywords: User Generated Content; Crowdsourcing; Yelp; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information; Internet and the Web; Learning; Mathematical Methods; E-commerce

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07 Sep 2016
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How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

graph theorists had to say about the impact of network design on transportation and inventory location at least 60 years ago. It was my meal ticket to a position on the Harvard Business School faculty. What has changed, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

to go into things undaunted with a greater focus on opportunities rather than challenges. In terms of my own vision, I believe our country needs community colleges to deliver. Our students need us to create... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

12 Feb 2007
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Adding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels

Keywords: by Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton & Thomas Steenburgh; Retail

06 Dec 2021
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Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS

design-thinking workshops that the task force completed over the course of five months earlier this year. "We've built amazing infrastructure on our in-person campus. Now we need to do the same thing for our... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Feb 2021
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Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

of this and other questions will no doubt generate further investigations regarding the role creativity plays in organizations and how managers can best cultivate and deploy it in the workplace. "In business, people can go only so... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Nov 2008
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Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

levity given the seriousness of the topic at hand. Some of the schools represented had already implemented major MBA program reforms. Others were considering them. But everyone had one View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

15 May 2013
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From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

Editor's note: Think money can't buy happiness? Behavioral economists Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton beg to differ. It actually can, they say—but only if we spend it the right way. In their book released this week, Happy Money: The Science View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton

03 Dec 2019
News

Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring

Clubs News Clubs News Building Bridges, One Meal at a Time Like most HBS alumni clubs, the HBS Club of Toronto is always on the lookout for new ways to engage its members to connect with each other. So when the club realized about a year... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Aug 2014
Blog Post

Leverage the Power of Alumni Networks in Recruiting

stood out – the power of the HBS alumni network. Although we talk about it all the time, it is another thing to see it come to life right before your very eyes. During our alumni event, we witnessed alumni... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

sometimes end up getting treated as a "base case." "We talked about the role of government. And, while it's useful to focus on market strategy, the non-market components of strategy were View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

10 Oct 2018
Blog Post

6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship

model, our hypotheses, and our assumptions. 5. Be patient really patient. One of the most difficult lessons we learned was that things take a very long time to develop and transpire. Whether it’s designing... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Dec 2009
News

Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

accounting from the University of Chicago. He’ll tap his interests in corporate accountability and disclosure to help him teach the first-year required course Financial Reporting and Control. Assistant Professor Thales Teixeira, a member... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2021
Working Paper

The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers

By: Ron Berman and Ayelet Israeli

Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more than 1,500 e-commerce websites, and we find an... View Details

Keywords: Descriptive Analytics; Big Data; Synthetic Control; E-commerce; Online Retail; Difference-in-differences; Martech; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; Retail Industry

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22 Apr 2002
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Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

As chair of the investment committee for a college, Sam Hayes was faced with a challenging dilemma: Should the committee invest only in socially responsible funds even though the outcome might mean fewer scholarships and teaching... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1999
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New York Club Names Entrepreneur of the Year

highlight of the dinner event was the presentation of the Club's Entrepreneur of the Year award to David McCourt, chairman and CEO of RCN... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

“Discovering different cultures is a way of life for me,” says Monsignor Frederick M. Dolan (MBA 1978), the Vicar for Canada of the Prelature of Opus Dei. After several years... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Nov 1999
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John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

National Cash Register of the most approved pattern. To appreciate what a help it would be to you, we must see what things you do in your store of which you keep a record.... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

01 Apr 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

exciting innovations that grew out of recommendations made by the Board last year. Recognizing that technology and the Internet are, for many of you, the primary vehicles for... View Details

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