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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
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 a highly decentralized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
pre-paid vouchers to an online subscriber base-has by all accounts been spectacular. Our evaluation of daily deals is a cautionary tale for merchants: a substantial percentage are unlikely to benefit, and might well lose money, by using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
not be confined to the pursuit of strong institutions: firms may also seek weak institutions to mitigate hazards. Using panel data from the global smartphone industry and recent patent wars among key industry rivals, we examine how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
whether there are similar benefits to relatedness at an operating unit level and whether such benefits stem from spillovers between operating activities. Using data from the hospital industry, we first examine the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
data from hospitals, we examine mispricing via "upcoding," which involves misclassifying ailment severity. Archival analysis indicates less stringent regulatory enforcement of upcoding for beneficent nonprofit hospitals, defined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online pied piper for... View Details
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recent graduates, including: Instabase, FreeWill, Spring Health, Ribbon Health, Snackpass, Parade, Fireflies, Reverie Labs, Getaway, Cobalt Robotics, LogRocket, Pavlov (acquired by Coinbase), and Legalist. Prior to his time at GC, Peter worked for View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
believe those who claim to have definitive answers to these big questions. The data to answer most corona virus questions with certainty doesn’t exist. We won’t know for five years if immunity lasts five years. We can’t understand... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Minor says it was illuminating to use “regular” subjects as opposed to undergrads, who aren’t necessarily representative of a broad swath of the United States. Equally important was using real money in the trust... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
guidance for use exists. Data from a recent consumer survey offers some insight for the decision maker to contemplate, as does the school's recent appearance on the cover of Forbes' magazine as the number one undergraduate institution in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
James Reinhart
disastrous. For James Reinhart, HBS MBA 2009, the foray into online resale began as a virtual swapping platform for grownups looking for a way to empty their closets and upgrade their wardrobes. The idea came to Reinhart when he was at... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France Author:J. Gunnar Trumbull Publication:In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer, edited by K. Bruckweh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
communication and engagement practices, can encourage frontline workers to conduct problem solving. We test our hypotheses in the health care context, in which the use of incident reporting systems to highlight operational failures is widespread. Using View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
and its subsequent market performance. The project revolves around data from the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a popular online market simulation where tens of thousands of people trade movie stocks every day.... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
benefit from revealing unit cost information to consumers. A natural field experiment conducted with an online retailer suggests that cost transparency boosts sales. Six subsequent controlled lab experiments replicate this basic effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that plane who boarded on time," she says. "But then there is this person who really cannot read. And she is a customer. And we want her on our plane. But how do we teach her how to fly?" The first-time flyer market in Brazil has risen dramatically in recent years. São... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
industries. We exploit data from the U.S. Cluster Mapping Project to examine the effects of agglomeration within regional clusters after controlling for convergence at the region-industry level. Our findings suggest that industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
contact each other through trusted intermediaries on the network to offer or seek jobs, consulting engagements, expertise, and financing. The company had outpaced its competitors by building the most populous online business network, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne