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- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
situations. When you are able to project yourself into a future situation, almost as if you were actually in it, you can better anticipate which motivations will be most powerful and prepare to manage them. The point of increasing your View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
exacerbating the drilling accuracy problem. "No one person, or even one leadership team, or one organization or agency, could have successfully innovated to solve this problem" Rescuers soon divided into subteams to experiment with... View Details
- Web
Generative AI - Alumni
hiring manager. Read more Of course, ChatGPT won’t replace the cover letter and resume writing process entirely. You should still spend time editing the text outputs for accuracy and to make sure your voice is present. Think of GPT as a... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
processing orders) but how long it takes to complete one unit of that activity (the time required to process one order). Once again, precision is not critical; rough accuracy is sufficient. In the case of our example, let's suppose that... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- Web
1.16 Student Educational Records - MBA
portion of the record relating to him/her/them. Students are also not permitted to view letters and statements of recommendation to which they waived their right of access, or that were placed in their file before January 1, 1975. Students should direct any questions... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
with the accuracy of the receivers' suspicions. They also noted instances in which receivers showed no suspicion toward deceivers. On average, receivers tended to trust the bald-faced liars far more than they trusted the allocators who... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Zhu, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School, who details the rise and fall of the information giant in a new working paper. "There has been lots of research on the accuracy of... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
too narrow, or underconfident. When combining probability forecasts, users need to adjust for those individual tendencies. Measuring accuracy and tracking performance are crucial to improving forecasts. Just as there are different methods... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
aligned with IBM's needs and capabilities. But think about IBM's value proposition to this woman. She types 80 words a minute and almost never makes a mistake. IBM was telling her, "Why don't you change your behavior and use a system that gives you lower View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
give candidates equal access to voters, and monitoring the accuracy of handouts and social media posts that campaigns share. “It’s important to make sure that all campaigns are able to get their message out through these powerful... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
so will its golfers. (Japan is Callaway’s largest market after the United States, followed by Europe.) On Topgolf: “Callaway is a part-owner. You hit a ball that’s been microchipped to track accuracy and distance and score points for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
Calculate sample statistics and apply the properties of the normal distribution Calculate confidence intervals to estimate the accuracy of statistics 8 hrs Module 3 Hypothesis Testing Quantify the evidence in favor of or against your... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
can map them with ever more accuracy is always within your reach. We can all observe the environment we’re seeking to influence; and knowing that everyone harbors a deep need for safety and self-esteem, you can gain insight into how the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
similarly strive to develop and quickly market a minimum viable algorithm. This approach may take some convincing; the DNA of founding technical teams is often around solving technical puzzles and increasing accuracy from 90 percent to 95... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
recommendations that the company offered a $1 million prize in 2009 to anyone who could build a system that improved prediction accuracy by just 10 percent. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/o3PhIjbcup30mxRiWNTV][/div] “Companies now... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
Swiss watchmakers realized they could no longer cite time-keeping precision as the main selling point of a handcrafted mechanical watch, Raffaelli explains. Quartz enabled mass-produced accuracy on the cheap. A revival depended on a new... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
relatively good forecasts of actual box office returns. In fact, the forecasting accuracy is what makes it such a valuable research setting. I used HSX to measure how the involvement of a movie star affects likely theatrical movie... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
psychological biases and errors that reduce the accuracy of human perception, sense making, estimation, and attribution.1 These can hinder the human ability to analyze failure effectively. People tend to be more comfortable attending to... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
talk to journalists: Before the interview, ask whether they plan to quote you, and if so, can you review the quotes for clarity and accuracy before publication. Many journalists are happy to oblige, time permitting. But don’t ask them if... View Details