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  • 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the supply chain process. They... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 8, 2006

recency) but are more cautious (positive recency). Paper not available Learning and Equilibrium As Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Author:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, Robert L. Slonim, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

investments in customized test software developed for UNIX systems. Teradyne's top customers were not interested in sacrificing accuracy and scrapping already installed software for the cost benefits of CMOS chips and NT. Instead, they... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

National Bureau of Economic Research) and popularize new statistical tools, like leading indicators and indexes of industrial production. On the other hand, though all forecasters dressed their predictions in the garb of rationality (with graphs, numbers, and... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

electric power is scarce. IBM's voice-recognition technology is being targeted at secretaries as a replacement for typing. The problem, said Christensen, is that VR technology is limited—administrative assistants can type much faster and with greater View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections By: Ibanez, Maria, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies and regulators. Inspection... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Office examination process. We randomize assignment of novice patent examiners to each process technology and provision of domain-specific expertise. Our analysis of examiner accuracy and speed in patent adjudication reveals, irrespective... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

resulting in 99.99% accuracy in its inventory system and completing orders on-time. At the end of the (A) case, students are asked to list the strategic uncertainties that should be keeping the two co-founders awake at night as they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

thing not to do is make long-term bets. In budgeting for operations, for example, lots of effort is wasted by thinking that we can project with any accuracy the timing for getting the answers to the important questions that will define... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence
  • 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015

accuracy of those assessments. We analyzed nearly 17,000 code-of-conduct audits conducted at nearly 6,000 suppliers around the world. We found that audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2003
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Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

sense of accountability. The expectation is that, by affixing his or her name to the document, the CEO will verify its accuracy by asking more rigorous questions: Do I trust the level of analysis? Am I getting the right advice from the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

one’s own knowledge attenuated reliance on algorithms. These tests are important because participants can improve their accuracy by relying more on algorithms (Experiment 4). Experiments 5 and 6 tested a mechanism for reliance:... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Proceedings Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy By: Glaeser, Edward, Andrew Hillis, Scott Kominers, and Michael Luca Abstract—The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

nears port, greater and greater accuracy is required if it's to avoid running aground and miss achieving its goal. "We have your goal in mind and do the dynamic trading with the target vision to get you there," Merton explains.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

firm, there is a decrease in the accuracy and informativeness of the unconnected (arm’s length) analysts’ forecasts, suggesting that the connected analyst’s knowledge spills over to those outside the private network. The spillover effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2004
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When Reputation Trumps Regulation

standards of U.S. firms. The SEC should also be granted the resources to more systematically verify the accuracy of these disclosures by foreign cross-listed firms. If the information were more reliable, investors could use the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 11 Nov 2013
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A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

the accuracy of churn prediction, regardless of who the customer is. Our goal should be to minimize the error in profitability of who we target," Gupta says. "Even if I'm worse in my churn prediction, I will still be better off." During... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

and applied levels. First, the field will broaden its boundaries to include genetics and molecular neuroscience, each of which will provide important new insights into individual differences in decision making. Second, recent advances in computational methods will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

research. Learning and Equilibrium as Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Authors:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, R. Slonim, and Greg Barron Periodical:Economic Theory (forthcoming). Special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

implies that multiple identity organizations may not be perceived as such by lower-level organizational members, who instead are likely to recognize a single identity to the exclusion of others. Team Emotion Recognition Accuracy and Team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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