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  • 29 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

pertinent information you wanted to get across. However, sometimes the catch-all size medium isn’t enough to get the size and fit just right. “The Gini coefficient—while often a decent measure—is not the best way to capture the View Details
Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

a hedge against potential product liability claims but also as a marketing edge. Finally, eBay has used litigation in creative ways to protect the information on its sites from firms like Bidder's Edge that sought to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 07 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Whether it’s booking a hotel, renting a movie, or buying a car, many of us consult multiple reviews before deciding. It’s called aggregating opinions, and we do it without even thinking about it. Crowdsourcing works so well, in fact, says... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

financial variables. They use a diagnostic expectations version of a dispersed information learning model to explain why individual forecasters typically overreact to news, while consensus forecasts underreact relative to full-information... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

be analyzed. Even when numbers are available, they are never clear. An intuitive process can still be rigorous if managers use the right tools. For example, discovery-driven planning lets you create a plan to test assumptions; aggregate... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

customer order, or processing the same type of paycheck or benefit claim across multiple companies. But benchmarking is not informative when it is used to compare fundamentally different processes or products. For example, knowing that a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
  • 26 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

Farronato says. Machine learning for dining out Regulatory health inspections are nothing new: Most cities maintain grading programs to evaluate restaurants’ hygiene practices, and that information is publicly available to savvy diners.... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We analyze the incentives to divert search for an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

HBS Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Aggregates options for consumers to trade in or recycle unwanted electronics in a simple and efficient web platform. Business Track, 2009 CloudFlare Michelle Zatlyn Matt Prince Business Track Winner... View Details
  • 13 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

show that this aggregation of information is not only a leading indicator of violations of rules and regulations, but it’s even a leading indicator of the whistleblower complaints themselves,” Campbell says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

economy as a whole. Micro is about firms and individual actors and how they behave; macro is about aggregate performance of the economy: overall GDP, trade surplus or deficit, inflation. In principle, we should be able to get rid of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

which eventually homogenizes the information space and decreases actors' propensity to form bridging ties, creating a globally separated network; (2) self-containment of the small-world network, or increasing homogenization of the social... View Details
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

significant differences between industries with limited and high private equity activity. It is hard to find support for claims that economic activity in industries with private equity backing is more exposed to aggregate shocks. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

aggregate information or map out where and how water is impacting a company’s supply chain.” Leni and Taryn see multiple entrepreneurial opportunities in the water space, among them: “assessing water risks... View Details
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

succeed, the value created by the differentiation—measured by higher margins and higher sales volumes—has to exceed the cost of creating and delivering customized features and services. Unfortunately, many companies cannot accurately decompose their View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

information is aggregated is a central decision faced by consumer review websites. Given a set of reviews, what is the optimal way to construct an average rating? We offer a structural approach to answering... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

large-store formats, multiple-store formats and extensive channel blurring in the U.S. retail industry. Our analysis is based on aggregate segment-level data from the Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), the Monthly Retail Trade Survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

informational and procedural quality. We close by discussing the implications of our findings for organizations and researchers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-001.pdf Cases & Course Materials Alibaba's Taobao... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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