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David A. Frankel
Data go on a global acquisition tear, buying up Cisco distributors around the globe, and transforming the company into the largest Cisco distributor outside the U.S. He was part of the IPO that raised $1.8 billion and listed the company... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
we theorize and then test that under conditions of increased workload, individuals may choose to complete easier tasks in order to manage their workload. We label this behavior Task Completion Bias (TCB). Using two years of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
forthcoming Annual Review of Economics History, Micro Data and Endogenous Growth By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—Economic growth is concerned with long-run changes, and as a result historical View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
on this historical legacy we find ourselves with a President who utilizes well-known racial dog whistles, such as calls for “law and order”, labeling protestors “thugs,” and quoting a well-known Southern segregationist (“when the looting... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
were realized. What we label the CEO-specific Q and past return explains equity issuance, but it does not explain debt issuance, investment, or profitability. Two discontinuity analyses show that the specific share price that the current... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Ariely Publication:Health Affairs 31 (February 2012) Abstract Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
process will become much more efficient. With the data we're collecting now, we'll have virtual clinical trials that will bypass actual humans. The number one challenge is going to be utilizing these vast quantities of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
game, Ford announced in 1999 that it would cooperate with General Motors and Daimler Chrysler to create a huge new electronic procurement exchange to leverage electronic transfer of data and reduce procurement costs. Its suppliers were... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
order. This paper considers the operational implications of “discretionary task ordering,” defined as the task sequence resulting from an individual’s ability to select which task to complete next from a work queue. Using data from more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the “disruptive” label has been applied too carelessly anytime a market newcomer shakes up well-established incumbents. In this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
separate studies by the type of entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of the heterogeneous nature of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
products of value to someone. The purpose of this chapter is to build a robust and versatile language that is capable of representing large technical systems. The language is based on elements I have labeled functional components. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
simulations that allowed for longer chain segments and used actual patient data from the Alliance for Paired Donation. When chain segments of 4-6 are allowed in the simulations, NEAD chains produce more transplants than DPD. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
matches, especially for firms likely to be financially constrained. The effect is associated with the discrete change in label from investment-grade to speculative-grade, not with changes in continuous measures of credit quality. We do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA
should be obtained before the information is shared beyond the faculty sponsor and HBS student team members. For example, interviewees may be sent copies of quotes they have made or data they have provided with a request to confirm by... View Details
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal conflict in South Asian countries,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
itself. Already the country registers 400,000 more deaths than births every year. Most of those deaths—about 80 percent, according to data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare—take place in hospitals, exerting tremendous... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
based upon directed network graphs, which allows us to identify all of the direct and indirect linkages between the components in a system. We use this approach to define three fundamental architectural patterns, which we label... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne