Probability - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 21, 2007

innovating managers will instead segment their markets by the different jobs that customers might use their products for, their probability of success will be much higher. Understanding the job is much more important than understanding... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

break the cycle of poverty in our urban areas? Not sustain people in poverty but break the cycle. This is a challenge that will probably be lifelong, something that I'll be thinking about and working on all of my life. I hope to be able... View Details

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

new research based on patent and trademark data by Harvard Business School professor William Kerr drills down to further identify the probable ethnic composition of U.S. inventors, the industries they influence, and the geographies they... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

09 Mar 2021
News

A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible

asked to pay their $20,000 fees even though they are also required to study from home using video they could probably get on YouTube,” he says. “That can’t last.” Alison also now provides free psychometric testing and cognitive skills... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Sep 2019
News

A Measured Approach

sophisticated monitoring and evaluation tools that could make a huge difference in how organizations implement and modify their projects, but they simply weren’t being used by decision-makers on the ground. A big reason they decided to start their own nonprofit “is... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Dec 2018
News

Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

raised $93,853 from 421 investors earlier this year largely by pitching the investment to its existing user base. “It’s hard to do due diligence on a private company,” says Hofmann. “If you’re a user you’re probably already convinced of... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

01 Apr 1998
News

Plunging Into the Net

Technology has a way of seeping into our lives. On our first encounter with a microwave, an answering machine, an ATM, a cellular phone, or a video camera, each of these innovations probably seemed foreign, odd, perhaps unnecessary. But... View Details

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

haven't seen people talking about the design that way. That's what we need to get to. If we had the workshop participants together for a week they'd probably come up with a pretty good design. So, if I were in a corporation I would be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

of very high highs, and very low lows. And my experience is really trying to balance both sides, and always constantly remember why I'm there. In terms of the highs the food is amazing, the culture is very vibrant. Lagos is probably the... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

finalizing the plan with MIT collaborator Tim Tuttle and fellow Class of 2000 teammates Sarah Boatman (now director of strategic marketing) and Robert Dreyer (vice president of engineering). “We probably wouldn’t have pulled any... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

02 Sep 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

to communicate with each other at will, then repeated the experiment. The result of increased communication was a significant reduction in inventory swings. The paper resulting from that experiment (and probably a lot of other research... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

04 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

are made more often than they are born, otherwise they probably wouldn't be so attracted to the subject. (Of them, only Melvin Sorcher and James Bryant, writing in the February issue of the Harvard Business Review, assume that leadership... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

the 1980s. Nationalistic policies and instability made Turkey an unattractive place for most foreign firms, and despite more stability and liberalization over recent decades, the role of foreign business remains quite limited. This View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?

“This was an idea that probably wasn’t going to be well received by the mainstream philanthropy world but had really big potential,” he recalls. A Princeton University study of GiveDirectly’s efforts is an early measure of that potential.... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

place in the private sector, the owners would probably hold the stock until the company was in robust health. The realized price on the stock would then in all likelihood be higher. But the Obama administration has made it clear that as a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

31 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

implementing the techniques myself that I grasped how biases can get trained into a neural network unintentionally. Being able to recognize these biases and observe how they take form helps to not only understand the problem but also brainstorm View Details

Keywords: Technology

21 Mar 2016
Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

honing different and yet comparably important skills for business and policy global leaders. Born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, I was probably predisposed to develop passions contiguous to the phenomenon of development, which arguably... View Details

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

whether review times or product novelty predicted adverse event reporting. Longer review times were associated with a lower probability of any subsequent reports and a lower probability of reports involving... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

notice or not—but in their next study, they showed them two products side by side, one with a privacy notice and one without. In this case, the respondents were slightly more inclined to purchase the product with the privacy notice. “The direct comparison makes you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

external CEO is probably the 'easiest, politically correct' option . . . where there would typically be two or three close [internal] contenders for the top job." A number of ways of meeting these challenges were suggested. Klopack's... View Details