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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
quite figure out how to harness it for the campaign. Could you help us?’ And so I went in and oversaw the technology. We were responsible for information dissemination, getting out the vote, and grassroots fundraising. That was really the first time that you saw major... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
visible, important ways. This hypothesis is reinforced by a growing number of academic studies indicating that a dollar spent on IT returns at least as much as a dollar spent on other forms of capital in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent retailers were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. And why would Apple ever allow a Kindle app in its App Store in the first place? "We all know historically Apple often says no to apps that directly compete with... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2192460 Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks Authors:Ivashina, Victoria, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract A large share of dollar-denominated lending is done by non-U.S. banks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Market day also means it’s a busy day for Gregoria Alvarez Reyes, whose store sits on an adjacent corner, right in the path of foot traffic. For the past 11 years, Reyes has owned and operated Farmacia Fradoni in this northwest section of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
military, legal, and humanitarian strategies. Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom by Marc Prensky (MBA 1980) (Palgrave Macmillan) Both the human brain and technology have strengths: cognitive function for sense-making and complex reasoning, and... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
them would just give up in the latter half, because there was no way they could make quota.” An ideal setting for a field experiment The retailer was an ideal setting for a field experiment for a few reasons. One, it operated 94 stores... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
project in partnership with Fermata Energy and clean energy developer NineDot Energy to deploy a bidirectional charging system that can both charge electric vehicles (EVs) and discharge those EVs to send energy stored in their batteries... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use Internet payment... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
There are no trash cans, electricity, or running water.” Character study: “I have two costumes for each day stored in Ziploc bags. One year I dressed as Marie Antoinette in mourning, in head-to-toe 18th-century French rococo black silk... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
more employees per dollar of revenue than almost any other industry. Balancing compensation and consumers’ willingness to pay is challenging. Lena Goldberg: Many people are speculating that we’ll have far fewer restaurants in the fine... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin for its decentralization, intentionally relying on no single server or set of servers to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
“This is where the action is, in the zeroes and the ones.” While the kids lean forward to catch his next act, Enriquez projects on a screen an image filled with 1s and 0s. “This is digital code, the most powerful language in the world,” he tells the class. “It allows... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
properties on the Ohio or Missouri rivers that flood every now and then but can be cleaned up afterwards without terminal damage. Move the mechanical systems and electrical switchgear to a high floor, evacuate residents temporarily, and don’t View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head demands for access and asset transfers are a growing menace.... View Details
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
when he angrily stormed into a store clutching a circular for maternity clothes that had been sent to his teenage daughter, only to later find out that the store had accurately predicted she was pregnant.... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
dollar or one quarter. The practice of making offers at round price-per-share levels is associated with the following unfavorable outcomes for the bidder: (1) higher purchase price for target shares, (2) lower probability to complete the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
vegetables and to package, chill, and ship the finished product, there is constant motion in Kettle Cuisine's cramped but immaculate Somerville, Massachusetts, kitchen. The 11,000-square-foot facility supplies more than two thousand restaurants and grocery View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
industry, which reached global sales of $1.9 trillion in 2019. Even before the pandemic, roughly 28 percent of global apparel transactions were happening online. At the same time, many brands had closed their physical stores in the... View Details