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  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

significantly outperform those that mix trial activity with the provision of traditional patient care. Second, we find evidence that focus at the divisional level and firm level are substitutes. That is, organizations characterized by divisional focus alone achieve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer applicant quality from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Blissful Thinking

science. It’s the same tools as social science—the experiment, treatment, control, human subjects, statistical inference, using the scientific method. Outside of academia, the happiness field has become fairly polarized. You have the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

and friend for over 30 years. The bulk of this article develops an account of his intellectual trajectory from game theory to statistical decision theory to decision analysis and to negotiation analysis. It suggests how these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

They spend much more time paying attention to reviews of other people like them and trying to understand and gauge in an unbiased fashion what the real quality is of these products and services, particularly those in which you can’t evaluate before you buy the product.... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

about the outcome of wrongdoing influence both ethical judgments and decisions to punish wrongdoers. Our studies show that people judge behavior as more unethical when (1) identifiable versus statistical victims are involved and (2) the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory violations in later years than firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

get people browsing through the stores. Despite what Apple says, the statistics suggest that there is no significant conversion of non-Macintosh users to Macintosh users on the basis of the stores. So, if you think of it as an investment... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2024
  • News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

algorithms and statistical analysis to detect problems such as leaks, bursts, and faulty equipment within a water utility's infrastructure. Such problems caused significant water and energy loss at many utilities, led to service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Commerce and the High Level Reflection Group on Health Statistics of the OECD. Jens studied medicine at the Universities of Hannover, Bonn, Athens, Patras, and Kiel and received his doctoral degree from Christian-Albrechts-University... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

the country’s agricultural sector. He has begun to address the disastrous situation of the country’s national statistical bureau, which after the previous government intervened in its affairs in 2007, has produced data so unrelated to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

and unpublished data on unconscious thought were included. Our aims were to provide a statistically robust estimate of the effect size of the UTE, to identify significant moderators, and to discuss possible underlying processes of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Read All About It!

his analysis of our low-mindedness is right — and right it seems to be in the light of such statistics as he can muster — our craving for entertainment is so insatiable that most of us give ourselves up wholeheartedly to joy-riding,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

and the consumers' discount factor, while statistically significant, fall in the region where PlayStation 2's position is unsustainable.   Working PapersPay Dispersion and Work Performance Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

statistically significant. Wanting to see if we could separate some coaches from others within the top quartile, we found that some groups of coaches were affected by a second-half tenure penalty, while others were not. Coaches that were... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

provided with a historical dataset, from which they can estimate historical volatility of the stock returns. They can also use the dataset to study various statistical relations between the securities. In particular, two of the three... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Departments | Employment

all digital classroom media infrastructure. Enhanced Web sites and social networking for students and alumni. Statistical computing grid to enhance research capabilities. An iPhone powered HBS Learning Nexus for Executive Education... View Details