Estimation - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

Again inducing participants by playing scary music or video clips, she found that anxious individuals were much more likely to seek out advice from others when they were asked to estimate the body weights of random people in photographs.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Oct 2013
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How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars

Keywords: by Isao Okada & Stephen A. Greyser; Sports

2006
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The Value of a 'Free' Customer

By: Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz

Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenus and profit potential of its customer assets. As a result, there has been a recent proliferation of work regarding customer lifetime value. However, extant research in this area is silent regarding how to... View Details

Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Auctions; Network Effects; Business Strategy

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2009
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Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?

By: Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han and Sunil Gupta

Social networks, such as Facebook and Myspace have witnessed a rapid growth in their membership. Some of these businesses have tried an advertising-based model with very limited success. However, these businesses have not fully explored the power of their members to... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Network Effects; Sales; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Web Sites; South Korea

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

of work per week. In total, CLIMB will take approximately a year to complete. The program is asynchronous, so participants can complete the work on their own time while meeting weekly course deadlines. There are no live class sessions with faculty. For exact time View Details

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

from individuals, and they might be coming from models or machines,” Grushka-Cockayne says. “They might rely on a lot of actual data, or they might be subjective in nature, and it doesn’t matter. The idea is that we want to follow certain principles that we believe are... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

15 Mar 2022
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This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

States cost companies an estimated $171 billion in wage and productivity losses in 2019, according to the National Safety Council. By 2018, more than 90,000 organizations across 127 countries had adopted OHSAS 18001. The similar ISO 45001... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

Application , I MAX MEM: 12 Gbytes; AVG MEM: 12 Mbytes Job , Job Name , User , Project , Application MAX MEM: 607 Mbytes; AVG MEM: 511 Mbytes Finding the RAM Usage in Programming Environments (e.g., Stata) Estimating RAM usage can be easy... View Details

25 May 2021
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White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

example, a 2017 study found that across 72 predominantly Black New York City neighborhoods, Airbnb hosts were five times more likely to be white. And the same study found that white Airbnb hosts in Black neighborhoods earned an estimated... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

31 Jan 2018
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American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

Paul Bradbury American workers are usually a pretty busy bunch, yet their time spent idle costs employers an estimated $100 billion per year, according to a new study from Harvard Business School. “We suspected idle time might be more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

offering wages higher than the local competition experienced both increased productivity and lower turnover, but did not address the issue of employee theft. Employee theft comes with a huge price tag for US businesses, accounting for up to $200 billion in annual... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

depreciation using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. The depreciation expense for fiscal 2022 decreased by $1 million, or 2.2 percent, from the prior year to $45 million. The School’s depreciation... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

NOVEMBER 2018 (REVISED JANUARY 2019) Mark Tercek, Charlotte Kaiser, and the NatureVest team have spent almost a decade structuring investments in conservation. While proud of their work to date, the $200M they have raised is insignificant compared to the billions... View Details

21 Nov 2013
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Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?

Keywords: by Sonia Bhalotra, Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

typically for six months to a year. In fact, Choudhury notes, Canada and other countries have crafted immigration policies to retain talent longer-term. He estimates that digital nomads currently number in the thousands. Chile is also... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

13 Dec 2021
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The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

acquisitions affect an estimated 5 million workers per year. While mergers typically lead to staff reductions, the new owners of an acquired company often promote talented women and people of color to oversee newly consolidated units and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

31 Oct 2011
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The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

the sale right away and improve the chance of attaining club membership. In the paper, Larkin uses actual choices of hundreds of salespeople facing this decision to statistically estimate the average salesperson's "willingness to pay" for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Feb 2022
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Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

particular sex. Overall, male patent teams produced significantly more patents than female teams: 373,774 by men versus 56,286 by women. Also, men invented more products for men than for women in all but one year of the study. Koning’s team View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Accuracy Obsession: Humans Prioritize Immaterial AI Accuracy Over Their Own Compensation — Unless We Educate Them

1. Problem definition: Accuracy isn't everything. In many contexts, high or low sensitivity is more important than overall correctness — and yet, we find that humans prefer accurate algorithms, even to their detriment. Specifically, we identify and address an... View Details

27 Jun 2011
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Recovering from the Need to Achieve

actor William H. Macy, knows he is not alone. He estimates about 80 to 85 percent of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs bankers, for example, would self-identify themselves as HNAPs. "When I talk about it they all relate to it,"... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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