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- 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
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
attracted the research attention of Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. Their working paper,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
versus Apple terms: Should AGR adopt a Microsoft Windows–style ecosystem, where it focuses on its core platform (Burro) but shares data with partners that could build out additional tools? Or should it take... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
especially with grocers, is that they use these cards to give discounts at the checkout. In the process of doing this, they have accumulated a lot of data. What they do with that data is anybody's guess. Other retailers, such as Talbots... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
Practitioners Institute to share best practices and offer guidance to groups looking to adopt its approach to transforming neighborhoods battling poverty, poor health, underperforming schools, and high crime rates. Since 2005, HCZ has... View Details
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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services
preference files, work that is considered 'in development'. Project folders are shared locations, and ideally used for collaborative project spaces. Please see our recommendation below on organizing project spaces. NOTE: Only those... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
Clarity on What Your Equity Actually Means Just knowing how many options or shares are in your grant isn’t sufficient to make an informed decision. You’ll likely want to ask your company for more details. Key questions, among others, to... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
Zeng found, is the amount of information available about loan applicants. When platforms share a lot of information about applicants with potential investors—data such as income, debt level, and credit history, and even whether the loan... View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
Working PapersInternational Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
it, students get a hands-on sense of what is unique about digital economics and business models, from new businesses like 3-D printing to "classics" like Facebook. They also do a deep dive into data analytics. "There are... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
progress. And to improve data collection, the School instituted a new, voluntary, self-identification form that case protagonists are asked to complete. “The School and our faculty are making an all-out effort to lay the foundations for a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
New York Stock Exchange, Amex, and NASDAQ. "I was really surprised to see how poorly book-to-market is doing." In all, Wang and colleagues examined 84,837 data points from companies with at least 10 months of metrics from 1980 to 2017.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
his research, few managers know how to channel innovative thinking into practice by making sense of the overwhelming amount of market, financial, and technical data now available and then sharing discoveries... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- Profile
Eric Sonnier
right fit. Any business school will teach you the fundamentals of business, but HBS teaches you how to think, how to approach a problem, and how to draw conclusions from limited data that you feel confident View Details
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
should they go for more information? Cray: If you would like to contribute to this project in any way, whether it be through funding, data collection, spreading the opportunity, sharing or using the dataset... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
May 2016 Journal of Accounting Research Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research By: Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—In the published proceedings of the rst Journal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
country." [We were then able to cross-check data for blocks which had Jewish institutions versus blocks that did not.] "What is crucial is that we can obtain an estimate of by how much the police presence deters crime."... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
antitrust authorities, who fear they could ultimately harm consumers by raising prices above typical competitive levels. It doesn’t seem too long ago when a price change was a major strategic decision for companies, requiring extensive View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
Social Sciences 47% Other 4% (All data as of Summer 1997) Members of the Class of 1997 participated in a three-day graduation celebration last spring leading up to the School's 86th Commencement exercises on June 5, when 883 new MBAs and... View Details