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- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
Ozik, and Sadka stop short of assigning a definitive explanation for this distortion of information, their research indicates that managers may provide misleading information for self-serving reasons: “The data suggest they may be... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
from all over the world, that we want to be able to give all applicants an opportunity to provide one standard piece of data that indicates verbal, quantitative, analytical, and writing skills. The GMAT is especially helpful in... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
though not impossible, since the data does include anonymous personal identifiers that are built off of social security numbers. The Holy Grail would be to cross-reference the database with information about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
in the 1960s, with research done here in Boston. Stanley Milgram, the renowned social psychologist, randomly chose people from phone books out of Kansas and Nebraska and asked them to forward a letter to a friend of his in Boston through View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
actually thinking. And because there are eight to twelve people, there's just not enough time for each person to talk. The maximum number for effective interpersonal communication is three." Instead, hire professional interviewers to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
to employers in clean energy, transportation, and the trades.” Overall, they learned that: Trade schools and community development programs had tight budgets and not enough career placement staff. The trainers needed help managing their students’ View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
dioxide and particulates; and in crowing about building settings like “30 CFM outside air per person per hour.” What has changed? Employees and employers alike have crossed into a new realm of extensive and public sharing of new HPIs and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
encounter-particularly in some countries where citizens resented their government partnering with and providing personal data to a large U.S. company? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
and Bart Hobijn Abstract This note accompanies the Cross‐country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
Forming A Research Partnership Teresa Amabile discussed a comprehensive field study in which her research team collected confidential, personal work diaries from 238 white-collar employees at seven disparate companies. The key finding:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
Personal financial futures, and those of the generations that follow, are considered in every acquisition. How does Granite Equity find success stories like Microbiologics among the many businesses that call Minnesota their home? Ask any... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
personally transporting several patients to local COVID wards. “Instead of giving people numbers, we do the work for them,” he told India Today. “If someone needs a nebulizer, a medicine or oxygen, we get it to them.” The article goes on... View Details
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
looking at the data to size the opportunity, we added it to our list. 3. Narrowing down the idea Even more difficult than coming up with ideas was narrowing down the list. The prospect of committing to a single idea was terrifying, and... View Details
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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog
challenging for general managers because they must rely on others – principally subordinates – to provide important input and data that inform decisions and to implement the choices made. The major constraint facing most managers is not... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
the lawyers or the accountants. Schleyer: The big offenders get people talking, but I don't believe the American public has in general lost confidence in corporate America. Wagoner: Realistically, yes, the data suggest that business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
many MBAs more concerned with personal wealth than social value, notes Kenny. The Economist, too, has its flaws. Critics note that 80 percent of its rankings are based on unaudited data submitted by the... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
machine learning tool to help small businesses identify promising business opportunities. “Google has useful information on foot-traffic patterns, plus satellite imagery and other data that can help entrepreneurs select the most promising... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
be handled in a way that allows for the emotional cauldron that people experience when they are the ones who actually carry out these tasks. According to research by Joshua D. Margolis of HBS and Andrew Molinsky of Brandeis, the emotions and preparation of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace