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  • November 2024
  • Supplement

AlphaGo (C): Birth of a New Intelligence

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
This case, the final of a three-part series, explores DeepMind's pivotal transition from mastering games to solving real-world scientific challenges. In December 2020, DeepMind's AI system AlphaFold 2 achieved a breakthrough by solving protein folding—a 50-year-old... View Details
Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Research; Autonomy; Deep Learning; Drug Discovery; Healthcare Innovation; Neural Networks; Information Technology; Research And Development; Scientific Research; Technology Startup; AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; United States
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  • 11 Oct 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

  • 03 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

insufficient room to collaborate. Zhu and his collaborators predict that as digitization increasingly de-couples hardware and software in many industries, corporate frenemies... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology
  • March 2011
  • Article

Do Sell-Side Stock Analysts Exhibit Escalation of Commitment?

By: John Beshears and Katherine L. Milkman
This paper presents evidence that when an analyst makes an out-of-consensus forecast of a company's quarterly earnings that turns out to be incorrect, she escalates her commitment to maintaining an out-of-consensus view on the company. Relative to an analyst who was... View Details
Keywords: Escalation Of Commitment; Stock Market; Updating; Behavioral Economics; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • January–February 2024
  • Article

The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Work-Life Balance; Employees; Emotions
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  • September 2020
  • Article

Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes:: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Kyung Joon Han
Why do native citizens of the Middle East and North Africa express greater opposition to certain types of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons? Why, particularly, do they express greater opposition to sub-Saharan African migrants? This article investigates these... View Details
Keywords: Postmaterialism; Immigration; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Surveys; Africa; Middle East
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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

The second in a series of occasional reports on current research from some of the many faculty members whose classroom presentations to alumni have been a cornerstone of recent HBS reunions, this month we report on Professor Howard H. Stevenson's examination of View Details
  • November 2024
  • Article

Perceptions About Monetary Policy

By: Michael D. Bauer, Carolin Pflueger and Adi Sunderam
We estimate perceptions about the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy rule from panel data on professional forecasts of interest rates and macroeconomic conditions. The perceived dependence of the federal funds rate on economic conditions varies substantially over time,... View Details
Keywords: Monetary Policy; Policy; Interest Rates; Perception; Economy; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Real Credit Cycles

By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer and Stephen J. Terry
We incorporate diagnostic expectations, a psychologically founded model of overreaction to news, into a workhorse business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. A realistic degree of diagnosticity, estimated from the forecast errors of managers of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Econometric Models; Business Cycles; Credit
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  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

policy instruments, and defaults. On the other hand, understanding the precise mechanisms underlying consumer losses is essential to predicting the impact of mechanism policies aimed primarily at reducing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

features a regime-switching short-rate model. We evaluate the out-of-sample performance of our model in terms of forecasting ability and coverage properties and find that it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

    Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through... View Details
    • 29 May 2020
    • Op-Ed

    How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

    COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
    Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • March 2025
    • Article

    Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field

    By: Erika L. Kirgios, Ike Silver and Edward H. Chang
    Many organizations struggle to attract a demographically diverse workforce. How does adding a measurable goal to a public diversity commitment—for example, “We care about diversity” versus “We care about diversity and plan to hire at least one woman or racial minority... View Details
    Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Diversity; Goals and Objectives; Communication Intention and Meaning; Behavior
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    • 14 Mar 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

    unionization In setting out to explain the differences in unionization rates by location, the researchers noticed that state-to-state union levels differed before and after the 1930s. Whether a state had a percentage of unionized... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 21 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

    of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be nearly obsolete (Landes, 1983). Unexpectedly, however, by 2008 the Swiss mechanical... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

    the course is to learn to use well-researched causal theories about strategy, innovation, and management to understand why things happen the way they do in businesses, and to View Details

      Complicated Firms

      We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece of information affects two sets of firms: one set of firms requires straightforward processing to update prices, while the other set requires more complicated analyses to incorporate the same piece of information into... View Details
      • 20 Mar 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

      https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54214 forthcoming Operations Research Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne