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  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

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

propose a class of dynamic pricing algorithms that builds upon the simple yet powerful machine learning technique known as Thompson sampling to address the challenge of balancing the exploration-exploitation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

safety. “Surprisingly, income and housing prices had little correlation with improvement” Next, they obtained Street View images from the same streets captured in 2007 and 2014. After algorithmically... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

algorithms to analyze radiology scans, applying quantitative analytics to marketing movies, and analyzing sales data from an online flash retail site to develop a better pricing model. The teaching and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

Zillow created a new feature—immediately copied by competitors—involving selling advertising to agents. It created many more customer contacts than before, and allowed the consumer to contact the agent directly. Zillow also introduced a sophisticated View Details
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

erroneous expressions. Calls that have greater use of non-plain English and more erroneous expressions show lower intraday price movement and trading volume. The capital market responses to non-plain English and erroneous expressions are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

than 0.25 stars away at the end of our sample period. Moreover, the deviation grows significantly as a restaurant accumulates reviews over time. This suggests that large gains could be made by implementing optimal ratings, especially as Yelp grows. Our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

style, and thus set prices that limit market penetration. The winning strategy diverges from this approach in almost every respect. When innovators develop products that people want to pull into their lives, they create markets that serve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2019
  • Blog Post

Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

And given my background as an industrial engineer, I looked at roles that had an operations flavor to them. I also realized I really enjoyed inventing things; one of the aspects I had enjoyed most about my work as an analyst was how unstructured it was: if I was going... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The One That Got Away

delivery business in a number of countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Brazil, and Canada. It went public in 2014, became a FTSE-100 company in 2017, and is currently worth $5 billion. That’s the price of an incorrect answer to... View Details
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer named Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company (Hefei Sanyo), for almost six months when suddenly Hefei Sanyo's stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

Just Digital Future Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Automating Inequality By: Virginia Eubanks 2018 Algorithms of Oppression By: Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 Race After Technology By: Ruha Benjamin 2019 In our Just Digital Future interview... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

use of the strategic text sequence prompted the AI assistant to choose the targeted products for recommendation even though they didn’t always meet the consumer’s stated criteria. For example, one of the machines was repeatedly included in the results even though it... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Collective Wisdom

almost managerial malpractice if you don't make crowdsourcing part of your toolkit." What about the fear of losing the ability to monetize intellectual property (IP)? Those are valid concerns. It really depends on the crowdsourcing approach you use. With a contest, the... View Details
Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 21 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

calculated so that directional recommendations can be made. 'What if' analysis or simulations: A small number of marketing plans are considered by simulating their effects on sales and profit. The best plan can then be chosen from this set. Formal optimization: An... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Impact Stories - Business & Environment

fee on carbon where it enters the market. Only by pricing in external costs can we eliminate existing subsidies to fossil fuel use and shift to a clean energy economy.” Carl Ferenbach MBA 1972 | In the Market for Environmental Change "The... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

access. Second, an open platform may lead to higher investment than a proprietary platform. Third, opening one side of a proprietary platform may lower incentives to invest in platform quality. Fourth, the structure of access prices of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne