probability - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

points out that given that "a series of people have fallen off the wagon," more formal measures will probably be called for soon. "There's really deep suspicion out there," Silk says. "I think issues of privacy are going to come under... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

the system for how we lead and manage,” Kaplan explains. “Virginia Mason used to be a physician-driven organization,” he continues. “Now we’re patient-driven. Our goal is to be the highest quality provider in our area at the lowest cost. We’re View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based models for two components of putting... View Details

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

individual students. Oscar Tendilla was a young man, a Mexican immigrant, who gets admitted into P-TECH. His family is under severe financial circumstances, and he's significantly behind in grade eight. He believes he probably won't be... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

place diminishes wait satisfaction while increasing the probabilities of switching and abandoning queues, with detrimental implications for service capacity. The research suggests that last place aversion can lead to maladaptive customer... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

recent firm performance? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/say-on-pay-qualcomm-inc-shareholders-vote-maybe-in-2012/an/114005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-047 Aqua Bounty Valuation of a pre-revenue biotech company at IPO using View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

as well as something with enormous social value because a lot of food goes to waste. Q: Can you give us other examples of how this works in practice? A: In Brazil, Banco Real has grown in 10 years from a small behind-the-pack bank to the second largest and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

everyone is affected identically by noncompetes. Our research shows that those with specialized skills (such as speech recognition engineering) are impacted more than those with more generally applicable skills. For instance, C++ programmers can View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

until recently. "Over the past 24 months, cap rates have dropped probably 200 to 300 basis points," says Furber. "That's a monster change and somewhat unprecedented." Up for debate is whether the structural changes of... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

reasons why the leadership literature has been recast so that it is solely focused on economic performance, but we believe probably the most important thing is that the obsession with shareholder value beginning in the 1980s led... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

long-term economic growth and inflation. The Fed can affect long-term rates only to the extent that it can influence those expectations. Long-term conservative investors should not probably be in the business of speculating on the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

whether it's going to be awesome and you're going to miss it if you don't take this risk. And I think about that advice all the time. All of this will find its place in your story. And ultimately, you will probably have a more interesting... View Details

19 Jun 2017
News

How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

level, they do so at the club level. You've probably heard of Arsenal, the big football team, the soccer team. Well, they come from the social clubs. And just as it is with soccer, in almost every small town to large city, there's one or... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

market-type dispersion is an important determinant of delegation and the provision of incentives. Using a sample of convenience store chains, we show that market-type dispersion is related to the degree of franchising at the chain level as well as the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

case the record companies. We believe that from the point of view of Apple, 99 cents is too expensive. Because profit comes mainly from the sale of hardware, Apple is likely to prefer lower download prices. From the point of view of intellectual property owners, 99... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

and how regulations are formulated. Let me give you two quick examples. The Sarbanes-Oxley law passed last year has a number of very good things in it, and the action taken at the time probably was quite healthy because of the situation... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

what I wished they were, and I was marginalizing things that should probably be more important to me. And I said, “What the hell, man?” On a plane one day, I overheard one of the most famous men in the world confessing to his wife that he... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

characteristics enhances investment performance, collaborating for affinity-based characteristics dramatically reduces the probability of investment success. A variety of tests show that the cost of affinity is not driven by selection... View Details