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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

By: Philippe Aghion, Diego A. Comin, Peter Howitt and Isabel Tecu
Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. In our theoretical model, growth results from innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Foreign Direct Investment; Saving; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods
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  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

Authors:Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling Abstract This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—while providing a theory that explains when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

increasingly using ML to manage many aspects of their business operations. “There’s been an explosion,” Teodorescu says. “It’s becoming less of a field in itself and more and more of a tool for people in other fields to use.” In a new working paper, Teodorescu surveys... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

share their resources are a key obstacle to saving. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45072 Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case By: Lagerstrom, Robert, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, and David... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

that attempts to maximize profits. This stage takes into account costs as well as firm's objectives and constraints (e.g., minimum market share requirement). Over the last several decades, marketing researchers and practitioners have adopted various View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 May 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

increasingly rely on users for new product development, design, and distribution. His particular interest is in how products can be designed and distributed to elicit user-driven development through such methods as "open... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

Susanna, Ranjani Krishnan, and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge Abstract—Bounded dependent variables are frequently encountered in settings of interest for accounting researchers. The econometric modeling of these variables presents particular challenges. Linear estimation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

using different methods (two experiments and a survey) indicate an inverted-U shaped relationship between degree of decision latitude and leadership effectiveness perceptions. The increase in leadership effectiveness perception between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

improve their productivity. Other surgeons in the practice do not copy Dr. Shingleton's practices nor use his trained surgical team. The dilemma relates to why his methods do not spread to other doctors and other clinics. Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 1996 (Revised March 2002)
  • Case

Bishay Industries

By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak
A bankrupt company has a turnaround plan. Students are asked to predict whether it will be successful. View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Business Plan; Goals and Objectives; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy; Cash Flow; Mathematical Methods; Financial Services Industry
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  • February 2010
  • Supplement

Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Market Size and Market Share Analysis (CW)

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
This Excel worksheet contains sample problems, prebuilt Excel models to run market sizing and market share analyses, and charts and graphs which help visualize the results. It is designed to accompany Marketing Analysis Tookit: Market Size and Market Share Analysis.... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Marketing Strategy; Decisions; Strategic Planning; Market Participation; Sales; Forecasting and Prediction; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 2009
  • Article

Social Structure Shapes Cultural Stereotypes and Emotions: A Causal Test of the Stereotype Content Model

By: P. Caprariello, A.J.C. Cuddy and S.T. Fiske
The stereotype content model (SCM) posits that social structure predicts specific cultural stereotypes and associated emotional prejudices (Fiske et al., 2002). No prior evidence at a societal level has manipulated both structural predictors and measured both... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Mathematical Methods; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Prejudice and Bias; Status and Position; Culture; Competition
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  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

resource deployment. Methodology: The predictive model developed is based on a regression tree combined with copula-based simulations. We generalize the tree method to predict complete distributions, moving beyond point forecasts. To... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

because of poor eyesight, McNamara wanted to be close to the action in 1943 and helped man the US Office of Statistical Control in London, where he applied the statistical methods he had honed at HBS to monitor troop and supply movements,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

selectivity to staff their firms in response to demand. Growth goals should return to a method of deriving from––not providing the primary impetus for––firm management goals. Adapt governance. The massive increase in scale of today’s... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

(third-person theory of) or 2) as being and action are actually experienced "on the court," specifically as these are actually lived (real-time first-person experience of). As a formal discipline, the "on the court" View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

identifying possible forms of bias, and evaluating methods of verifying whether bias in fact occurs. I then consider possible legal and policy responses, and I assess search engines' likely defenses. I conclude that regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

switch, the more conservative you are. This is a standard risk elicitation method that’s been used in the laboratory countless times now,” Minor says. He then compared the survey results to the investors’ actual portfolio choices. What he... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

http://hbr.org/product/experience-the-finger-lakes-the-groupon-partnership-decision/an/814010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-086 Learning From Extreme Consumers Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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