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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Card-holders may choose among several tax settlement and loan options, effectively receiving cash as much as 90 days... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
that improved player development. In 2014 Hopp, who had personally invested 300 million in the club, built a “footbonaut,” an automated training environment that collected data on players’ skills and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
analyzed the data (at the level of the respondent, the unit, or the hospital), where a higher percentage of the problems were assigned to a senior leader for action, there was a greater improvement in safety climate." The... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
this success was achieved. Heroes Wanted: Why the World Needs You to Live Your Heart Out by Rodney D. Bullard (AMP 187, 2014) Harvest House Publishers With all the hardships and unmet needs in the world, it’s difficult to believe one View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
raised Audax Group's first fund, and are not able personally to finance the purchase, which would require approximately $30 million. They must decide whether to go through with the purchase, and how to finance it, keeping in mind any... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
climate report warns that harmful carbon emissions have never been higher in human history. First, the encouraging news: Data analysts at EVAdoption.com reported record sales in the U.S. in the first half of 2021, despite global chip... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
lead to reduced economic productivity subsequent to exposure to temptation. Using a design inspired by the classic "Marshmallow Test," we report data from a field experiment in which children between the ages of 6 and 13 were... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
of attention, and we use this framework to study the “attentional stability” of common errors and psychological biases. While many costly errors are prone to persist, in some situations a person will recognize her mistakes via “incidental... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
this work through longitudinal data collection, research, education, and the dissemination of best practices. We are also committed to diversifying the protagonists of our case studies so they better reflect our student body. Since... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
on-line encyclopedia. These data allow us to track all three elements required to test Coleman's mechanism: norm violations, punishments for such violations, and rewards for those who punish violations. The results are broadly consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
STRUGGLE Ivashina and Lerner studied 2,577 senior partners and 1,394 junior partners, as well as 1,032 investment professionals who were classified as founders. They looked at a variety of detailed data on the partners and the funds,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
and donate part of the proceeds to a charity to feed the hungry. Not all PWYW strategies are created equal, however. Santana investigated data from a pet adoption agency in New York, finding that on average patrons paid close to the $150... View Details
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
finance/insurance, healthcare, and more), and how to pitch the strategic advantages of the region. Moreover, I am grateful for the opportunity to put into practice the skills I have refined in the MBA program such as strategy development, stakeholder alignment, and... View Details
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
price (about $400,000) would be significantly less. Initial models would be well suited for use in scientific computation and control applications... [T]his same basic computer will also be suited for use in business applications." 45 In 1962, DEC introduced the PDP-1... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
The belief that business life entails personal choices is a "vocal" element in the School's context. Q: Can morals be manufactured, as the title of the book suggests? A: The term "manufacturing" evokes the notion of... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
Starting a new job often brings excitement and high hopes of mingling with colleagues, sharing innovative ideas, and making a positive impact on an organization. Soon, however, a new employee’s excitement may start to wane, if the person... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
data-driven personalization platform for fashion retailers, provided us with an aggregated dataset of online apparel sales from a variety of anonymized well-known fashion retailers in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2019 and... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
winter. We suggest that the presence of membership fees can lead consumers to infer a "fees -> savings" link, spurring them to increase their spending independent of the actual savings afforded by such clubs. Using both field View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
purchases, to time-of-day surfing, to domain name -- in order to develop a user profile. DoubleClick then uses this data to match Web users with advertisers. DoubleClick's Salzman explains it like this: "If you and I went to the same page... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna