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  • 11 Apr 2017
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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
  • 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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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
  • 17 Jan 2017
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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
  • 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
  • 18 Nov 2014
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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
  • Web

3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

heart attacks through a one-time change in a single gene. In most of these cases, business choices like market selection, financing strategy and pricing are critical determinants of the value of the technology to humanity. The course will... View Details
  • 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
  • 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
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

our ability to generalize findings in organizational research. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55546 Intelligent Artificiality: Algorithmic Microfoundations for Strategic Problem Solving By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman