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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- October 2002 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
By: Paul M. Healy
Krispy Kreme is a rapidly growing firm with a business model that has excited Wall Street. View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Financial Statements; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Reporting; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)
Healy, Paul M. "Krispy Kreme Doughnuts." Harvard Business School Case 103-018, October 2002. (Revised January 2013.)
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
students and investors how to evaluate mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles. It discusses how different types of funds are managed, marketed, and regulated. It also reviews how funds invest and gather assets in countries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of prediction, action and evaluation is central to these misperceptions: People predict that they will behave more ethically than they actually do, and when View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
charcoal and fuel wood. Antitrust Scrutiny of Google Authors:Edelman, Benjamin G. Publication:Journal of Law Abstract I evaluate antitrust claims against Google and propose possible remedies. While Google's specific tactics are often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog
of the sector. Educational Objectives Develop an informed view on the history of and recent dramatic changes in how the space sector functions, including the evolving relationship between public and private actors. Consider and evaluate... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
identify fairly reliable predictions from the guesses." Others identified people as the weak point in the process. Adam Hartung commented that " everyone should be evaluating trends and making View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early twentieth century. He built the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
from investors. CircleLending is a pioneer in the informal lending market, a largely unstudied and little understood consumer finance segment. Asheesh Advani, the founder and CEO of CircleLending, must evaluate the relative attractiveness... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
features a regime-switching short-rate model. We evaluate the out-of-sample performance of our model in terms of forecasting ability and coverage properties and find that it improves on the standard Diebold... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
that something was happening." To evaluate the effects of planning regulation on independent retailers, Sadun studied the retail landscape in the United Kingdom between 1998 and 2003. Not surprisingly, she discovered that the... View Details
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
managers over-invested in technology stocks. Why are the less-experienced managers drawn to technology? A: Our hypothesis is that younger managers, and inexperienced investors more generally, are more likely to extrapolate past price movements when forming their View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Download paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
impact people's feelings about their decisions. We compare post-choice satisfaction from choices made by mind wandering to reason based choices and randomly assigned outcomes. Participants chose a poster by mind wandering or deliberating-or were randomly assigned a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
misperceptions: People predict that they will behave more ethically than they actually do, and when evaluating past (un)ethical behavior, they believe they behaved more ethically than they actually did. We use the "want/should"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
with a complete characterization of these mechanisms can we begin to forecast future implications with accuracy. We can nevertheless agree that attracting and retaining these ethnic researchers is an important facet for maintaining U.S.... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Yelp restaurant reviews to target hygiene inspections? “There is so much data now, it’s exhilarating—and frightening” “There is all sorts of data that is coming in now,” says Luca, “and if you use it carefully you could revamp the way that every policy is View Details