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- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
transactions. The analyst used the Cox regression model—an approach originally used to determine which patients would die and which would live over certain time periods-of "survival analysis." The analysis discovered that the simpler prior View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
permitted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is realigning media ownership. Among other changes, the Federal Communications Commission recently relaxed restrictions on ownership of multiple television stations in larger markets, paving the way for future... View Details
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Judging | New Venture Competition
entrepreneurs. Evaluation Criteria All rounds will be evaluated based on: Impact (30% of score) Social impact The social or environmental issue the organization seeks to address is clear and the business model is likely to make a... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
economic model. Even a simple time-driven ABC model will fundamentally change the way the company manages its process improvements, its product variety, and its individual customer relationships. Typically,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
An old adage about volunteers cites the value they bring to organizations as including “wealth, work, and wisdom.” These “three Ws” define the dedicated alumni body here at HBS. Although being a donor is certainly critical to sustaining the View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
during an economic downturn. My colleague, HBS associate professor Tom Nicholas, has found that while the pace of patent applications slowed during the Great Depression, some contrarians pressed ahead with innovation, including DuPont... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
change). They can be used to diagnose a culture and to model how likely an individual leader is to align with and shape it. The authors offer five insights regarding culture's effect on companies' success: (1) When aligned with strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
at Enron had nothing to do with the failure to expense options. Rather, it related to a failure to disclose something else entirely on both the income statement and the balance sheet. Enron had taken advantage of some very liberal (and View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
specifically at remedying criticisms leveled at the recent point system proposed by U.S. policymakers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-025.pdf Multi-Sided Platforms Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright Abstract The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
restaurant to scaling to leadership of multinational chains, and evaluate opportunities inherent in typical restaurant business models as well as those created by disruptive changes affecting and shaping the industry. Michael and Andy... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
and minimizes the expected time to detection under a pre-specified alternative hypothesis. We apply our method to a model in which the interdependency among the multiple adverse events is captured by a Cox proportional hazards View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
say—in the way it emphasized the momentum behind global standardization. Its more enduring contribution seems to be that it correctly flagged demand-side preferences and supply-side economies of simplicity and standardization as the two key View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
revenue for economic assistance and conversion to cleaner energy. While the group hasn’t attached an exact figure to the amount of the tax, they estimate that it should start between $30 and $40 per ton, an amount that reflects the social... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
essential to develop the self-awareness, compassion, emotional intelligence, and authenticity required to be inspired human beings and inspiring leaders. Book: http://www.bkconnection.com/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781609940072&PG=1&Type=AUTH&PCS=BKP Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article instead analyses how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
shipping containers—necessitates a white cap and a lab coat. The units feature a double-door protocol that requires the exterior door to be closed before a second internal door can be opened. In the far corner of the building, a larger-scale View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
campus to be a model of best practice for them. On the academic front, in addition to a burgeoning number of technology-related courses in the curriculum, students use technological tools - interactive cases, for instance - in their class... View Details