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- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from the Census, Federal Housing Finance Agency,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
mistake of treating their online unit as a mere add-on to the store. Target, by contrast, spent much time focusing on how data could be used specifically to help build its web arm. And the retailer was careful to establish the value of data, analytics, and View Details
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
ever about innovative financial endeavors. So that brings me to the subject of digital money or “cryptocurrency,” a form of encrypted digital money. How should we think about the future of a currency that is manufactured (“mined”) and View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
machine learning algorithms to analyze thermal images and detect tumors. Its patented solution leveraged big data analytics, AI, and ML for reliable, early, and accurate breast cancer screening. Early clinical trials showed that the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
boatloads of money until they finally drove the last of the integrated mills out of the market—and then the price of rebar dropped 20 percent, because rebar had essentially become a commodity market. The minimills' reward for victory was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
unhappy with customer service, or your prices went up, or a competitor offered a better deal. But if a company lets too many customers show themselves the door, then they’ll waste too much of their time recruiting new customers. “If 30... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
Search, a Google travel search service, we identify and measure the impact of diverting search away from non-paid algorithmic links to competing online travel agencies. Controlling for search intent, we find that Google's differential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
powered by advanced ML algorithms embedded with a fintech solution. Hive Health Camille Ang (MBA/MPA-ID 2022) Jiawen Tang (MBA 2023/MPA-ID 2021) Business Track Co-Winner A B2B2C digital health insurer providing simplified, affordable, &... View Details
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Foods: Changing Price Amid Inflation” (HBS Case 522-087, March 2022) with Jeremy Yang and Das Narayandas. Julian De Freitas : Recipient of a 2023–2024 HBS Required Curriculum (RC) Case Award for “Hometown Foods: Changing View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
digital strategy expert Venkat Venkatraman offer a first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best (create physical products) with what digitals do best (use algorithms and AI to parse expansive,... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
and Emily Mower, for "Demand Learning and Dynamic Pricing for Varying Assortments: Algorithm Development and Implementation at Zenrez." Marco Iansiti : Winner of the 2019 Best Conference Paper at the 24th... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
environment its original owners never envisioned. As other independent booksellers before her had discovered, Brody realized that the store could never compete with its bigger rivals on price or—with just 1,000 square feet of space—on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
success and seeking perfection in our professional and personal lives, and we have all paid its price in some form—and impose costs on others. Most of us are "OK to not be OK" to have the perfect job, family, and friends and conform to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
economy, wanted to see how the algorithm performed. What she found surprised her: Although Airbnb had designed the pricing tool to be race-blind, the algorithm nonetheless... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
that researchers face when demonstrating the existence and effects of resale price maintenance (RPM). We outline three approaches for finding price effects of RPM and the corresponding hurdles in data and... View Details