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Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making

By: Marlyse F. Haward, Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz and Baruch Fischhoff
Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort care (CC) or intensive care (IC)-are presented or (b) their order of presentation. Methods: 309... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Family and Family Relationships; Health Care and Treatment
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes

By: Jeremy Yang, Dean Eckles, Paramveer Dhillon and Sinan Aral
Decision makers often want to target interventions so as to maximize an outcome that is observed only in the long term. This typically requires delaying decisions until the outcome is observed or relying on simple short-term proxies for the long-term outcome. Here we... View Details
Keywords: Targeted Marketing; Optimization; Churn Management; Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Policy; Learning; Outcome or Result
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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • October 2016
  • Article

Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science

By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani and Christoph Riedl
Selecting among alternative innovative projects is a core management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowledge embodied in... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge; Innovation; Novelty; Evaluation; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Science-Based Business; Experience and Expertise
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  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

information about address value and assuring allocative efficiency. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41297 Vulnerable Banks Authors:Greenwood, Robin, Augustin Landier, and David Thesmar Abstract When a bank View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

tests, and to guess the performance of a random partner whose gender was revealed. Both men and women exaggerated the actual gender performance gaps on average, overstating the male advantage in male-typed domains as well as overstating... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

Business School Professor Amy Edmondson argues in her new book Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well. Alimta is an example of an “intelligent failure,” Edmondson says, because the scientists developing it had no way to advance their project other than to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 30 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty

co-worker. In each scenario, the researchers randomized Nathan’s response, telling subjects he either calmly denied the allegation, or flew off the handle and yelled angrily when confronted. Participants on average rated the guilt of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

methods (decision trees, random forests, K-nearest neighbors, and neural networks) to reveal patterns in data that could be used for theory building. We also illustrate how ML methods can illuminate interactions and non-linear effects... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2232177 How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments By: Kuziemko, Ilyana, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

discovery work to validate the problem or their target customers. While gut feel or personal experience with a problem can be a strong signal there is a problem to solve, without proper product discovery work you won’t truly know if you... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

where these entrepreneurs live, forming them into groups, and asking people which of their neighbors have the most potential to grow their business. Roth: About 10 years ago, Natalia and I did a randomized View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
  • 29 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

standard deviation of demand, one that has been employed successfully in the recent literature uses dispersion among experts' forecasts. However, there has been limited empirical validation of this methodology. In this paper we provide a general methodology for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

strong beliefs in the meaning of their work experience better performance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54523 Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

saddest thing. It sent me into depression. And what I learned from that experience is what we talk about in the book, is you take the the thing that was the worst thing for you, the thing that was the challenge, and you began to-- you... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

mathematics—see much greater longevity. Teachers often experience long-lasting success, and a Chronicle of Education study says the oldest college professors tend to have the best teaching evaluations. Jumping on that second crystalized... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment. McFowland coauthored the paper with Jui Ramaprasad of the University of Maryland, Ravi Bapna of the University of Minnesota, Probal Mojumdar of Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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