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- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
consumer collaboration, in which consumers use digital media that lie beyond the control of marketers to communicate among one another, responding to marketing's intrusions by disseminating counterargument, information sharing, rebuttal,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
with a team on a new idea in the health IT space—one she believes has the potential to increase the quality of patient care, while lowering costs by giving control of health care information back to the patient. “We are looking to turn... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- Portrait Project
Harman Kochar
If life could be planned I would have already – Eradicated Poverty from the World Controlled Global Warming Established World Peace Cured all Diseases Discovered the fountain of youth and last but not the least.... Built my mansion on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
aim to make rigorous impact-measurement approaches, like randomized controlled trials, practical and accessible to practitioners. In India, we are helping the State of Bihar improve a $200 million nutrition... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
team, an experience that convinced him that he needed more management skills. By his own recollection, he was virtually “clueless” about the very special place to which he was heading. His application to the MBA Program caught the... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
risks—including spending hours reading or watching the news. "This is such an impermanent state of affairs that we just have to do as best we can." Rather than ruminating on the virus and replaying possible future outcomes in our minds, it’s best to let go of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- Profile
Paul Wang
work with the MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). “They’re a group of economists who use randomized evaluation methodologies, similar to those used in pharmaceutical trials, to assess the impact of development projects,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
business? Sarah Ford (MBA 2007)’s experience with Amazon highlights its allure and drawbacks. In 2012, Ford founded Ranch Road Boots, a high-end shoe company inspired by her roots in West Texas and her View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
forthcoming Journal of International Business Studies Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History By: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G. Jones Abstract—This article engages in a methodological View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
committee be independent and financially literate, and that at least one have accounting or equivalent experience. The audit committee chairman should have this experience and the leadership to insist on full and complete discussions.... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
employees influences their startup's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technology firms whose founders received in-person advice from other entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
and management. We develop a step-by-step roadmap that illustrates how to use four ML methods (decision trees, random forests, K-nearest neighbors, and neural networks) to reveal patterns in data that could be used for theory building. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
a Chinese migrant, it might be more important to go back home during the Chinese New Year, rather than during the December break.” Although the study was able to exploit the random assignment of workers to different locations, thus... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in standard configurations and in modified versions with clearer labels identifying search engine advertisements. In particular, for a random subset of users, we change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
drive experiments and make decisions more centrally, and others by combining both approaches. The note highlights important tradeoffs in designing management systems for control and new-market adaptation and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50189 Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile By: Kast, Felipe, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract—We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings through two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
wholly owned enterprise. Hesse must prepare his recommendation to the management team, which includes owners Jim and Debby Sharpe. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807118 PublicationsRemedying Education: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2015
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media
different insights into developing and executing a successful social media strategy. Brand Manager's Guide to Losing Control Social media platforms have taken some of the marketing power away from companies and given it to consumers. Jill... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
partnered with a co-founder who had brewing experience to start building the plan for the first iteration of Reveler Beverage, a brewery and gastropub. They laid the groundworks for the company and were close to finalizing a deal for... View Details