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  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

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
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

to employees' identity and self-worth. Caring About Accuracy Dave Thompson was appointed a measurement technician at El Segundo, CA-based Unocal's Van, TX, oil field in 1993. He was responsible for making sure that the amounts of oil and... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

provided expert domain specific knowledge, and analyze their productivity as measured by accuracy and speed in identifying prior art relevant for patent claims adjudication. We find that, when provided with expert domain knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

Quarterly Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior work compares... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

problematic. While firms are increasingly relying on private-sector "social auditors" to assess factory conditions, little had been known about the accuracy of those assessments. We analyzed nearly 17,000 code-of-conduct audits... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

misvaluation for a firm's borrowing and investment decisions. Using an ex-post measure of the accuracy of credit ratings to capture debt market misvaluation, we find evidence that firms take advantage of inaccuracies by issuing more debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

employee engagement, and even the CEO's leadership style and character. But even these broader assessments can lack accuracy and credibility. Too often, the board members' appraisal is based largely on how the chief executive acts at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

extreme, poorly implemented risk management can lead to the firm's demise. Under Sarbanes-Oxley 404, both the CEO and CFO have to attest with personal liability to the accuracies of the financial statements (including footnotes with... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 20 Jun 2012
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

applications of that knowledge or imbues the identity of leadership on that student, the educational outcomes need to adhere to the criteria of veracity and accuracy we hold for any other field taught in a university setting. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

vegetables at the point of sale, improving the speed and accuracy of the checkout. If the benefit is not immediately apparent, make it obvious through advertising and promotional materials. Lesson 2: Make The Technology Easy To Use. Most... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

power to "encourage patients to seek treatments they do not need." Critics of DTCA question the accuracy of its content and 82 percent of the physicians in our sample strongly or partially agreed with the view that DTCA... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

Health's MegaBLAST. The best achieved both greater accuracy and speed (1,000 times greater). Here we show the potential of using online prize-based contests to access individuals without domain-specific backgrounds to address big-data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

accuracy of audits. The authors note several reasons why this might be the case: Sociology studies have found that women tend to be better at both perceiving and integrating facts they observe, lending them a greater ability to notice... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

reviews on average) and accuracy (some reviewers are more erratic than others), (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3) product quality to change over time. We apply this approach to reviews from Yelp.com to derive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-103.pdf Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs Authors:Emilie Feldman, Stuart Gilson, and Belén Villalonga Abstract We investigate the information content and forecast accuracy of 1,793... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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