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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
feather flock together." In a series of simulations, we show that latent space coordinates significantly reduce bias in the estimate of social influence. The intuition is that latent coordinates act as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
of 9,360 U.S. cities found that air pollution predicted six different categories of crime; these analyses accounted for a comprehensive set of control variables (e.g., city and year fixed effects, population, law enforcement) and survived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
the firm-size distribution; controlling for level of economic development, regulation, institutional constraints, and other variables that might affect the business environment; and using different empirical specifications. We further... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
setting models in which policy makers target specific macro variables. If the Fed is simply responsive to publicly observable variables, then the bond market would only react to the release of these View Details
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
variable that would make a big difference to costs that they needed shop workers vested in controlling. They tied its reduction to dividends, but that “didn’t move the needle one bit,” Bangert recalls in the case. Employees “still felt... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
individual feel dirty. We theorize that such feelings of dirtiness decrease the frequency of instrumental networking and, as a result, work performance. We also examine sources of variability in networking-induced feelings of dirtiness by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
moderately diverse environments (within 20 meters)—a composite measure based on variables like product market—that share what they know while also participating in coworking social events can help each other gain traction. The study... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- November 2020
- Article
Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Re‐Shapes Two‐Sided Platforms
By: Daniel Trabucchi, Antonella Moretto, Tommaso Buganza and Alan MacCormack
The importance of platform‐based businesses in the modern economy is growing continuously and becoming increasingly relevant. Specifically, the deployment of digital technologies has enhanced the applicability of two‐sided business models, enabling companies to act not... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Two-Sided Platforms; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation
Trabucchi, Daniel, Antonella Moretto, Tommaso Buganza, and Alan MacCormack. "Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Re‐Shapes Two‐Sided Platforms." Journal of Product Innovation Management 37, no. 6 (November 2020): 552–574.
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
that benefits from economies of scale. It's up to management, they add, to determine the right combination of short- and longer-cycle lines in domestic and foreign sources. "Balancing these assembly lines by establishing for each [stockkeeping unit] the precise pattern... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
industries. We see experimentation and innovation in products, services, processes, and business models as central to entrepreneurial activity. The finance of entrepreneurship - We seek to understand the financing of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- What Do You Think?
What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?
“Amazon’s business model is perhaps about scale, automation and efficiency. I will imagine the HR or people strategy would be geared towards attracting and retaining the employees that will help to accelerate and improve these key... View Details
- 22 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges in Leading Professional Services
professionals with a very high need for achievement. Few want to make a career of working in the firm. These variables are different from regular organizations. The economic model is different as well. And... View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
connection problems. While out-and-back routing tended to isolate operational issues, more traditional linear routings tended to offer high equipment utilization. The case offers students an opportunity to examine the effects of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance to control bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower variability in the importance of their posts. We find evidence of two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using instrumental View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
access to short, intensive on-campus events or online educational programs. By 2025, the IQanat school and programs had produced more than 2,000 alumni who had been admitted to universities in 16 countries. The initiative’s funding model... View Details
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
working paper, Ascarza and coauthor Nicolas Padilla, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Business School, show that a statistical tool known as a deep exponential family model can effectively sort the most relevant View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
using Excel and interpret the output 8 hrs Module 5 Multiple Regression Identify relationships among three or more variables to improve understanding of data and provide better forecasts. Highlights Single Versus Multiple Regression... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details