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- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
became. Male doctors performance also improved when emergency rooms had more female doctors. For Huang, the price of that learning curve seems too high for women. “There's lots of these scenarios where people have to advocate, have to... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
it is often one of the hardest. Pricing decisions require managers to understand how sensitive consumer demand is to changes in price. This requires constructing and interpreting a demand curve to understand how responsive (or elastic)... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
empowerment would lead to better outcomes and lower costs. “In the world of health care, maybe the curve goes in the other direction, as I suggested in the 23andMe example,” he said. “If you empower consumers, they start asking a lot of... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
brand-new doctors through life-or-death situations. "There's a huge learning curve in medicine, and teaching is highly variable in terms of training," Zhang says. "Some attending physicians really prioritize mentoring, while others think... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
minds to wander were correlated with activity in this network. The Persistence of Inflation versus that of Real Marginal Cost in the New Keynesian Model Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Periodical:Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (forthcoming) Abstract This note provides... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
prevalent Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47648 The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves By: Greenwood, Robin, and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen Abstract—We document a strong effect... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Concrete Symbols - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
separate classroom building would be too costly to construct. The rooms featured sloping, tiered floors of curved rows with desks, a design Dean Donham and his team first outlined in early stages of the competition. The arrangement, they... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
chains and people analytics to artificial intelligence-based models and automated biotechnology research, organizations further along the digital curve are responding differently than those still wondering how to evolve. The digital... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
with a long history in the airline and hotel industries now gaining traction in the arts world. By analyzing existing data, Hodges and her team have the flexibility to adjust ticket prices on a weekly, or even daily, basis to smooth the demand View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
progression from the 1925 McKim, Mead & White footprint for the first residential business school in America to an array of HBS projects slated for completion by 2023, he emphasizes the importance of continuity and symmetry. “When the first buildings took shape along... View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
is bilingual, acted as interpreter.) Staffing For Peak Occupancy For many restaurants, some nights of the week attract more customers than others. A bistro packed with customers on the weekend might be half empty on a Tuesday. For Michelin-star restaurants, that... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Our results have important implications for understanding how feedback shapes gender gaps in self-assessments. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55540 The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
remarkable success punctuated by steep learning curves and grounded in solid values. Tierney arrived at HBS—his first trip to Boston—wearing work boots and a flannel shirt and feeling out of place. “Everyone seemed more educated, more... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
across a far-flung network of operations, and motivating everyone with a clear understanding of the new company’s mission. Add to those formidable tasks the steep learning curve Parker faced by moving from the service-based rigors of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
offering technical assistance to small business owners has been an onerous, difficult-to-scale process, resulting in drawn-out learning curves and missed opportunities: “AI enables us to sift through massive amounts of data in real time... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
model’s correct and incorrect classifications, the cutoff point on the curve that matches true positives and true negatives, and the payoff matrix Wehunt and Morse construct. Students can then follow the link directly from their model to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Management
excellent opportunity to see how a student with raw talent can develop over 10 weeks. Investing in a “Wintern” The investing learning curve is steep, particularly for first year career-switchers who have a short time horizon before... View Details
Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
declares Brierley. "Hal Brierley has been ahead of the curve on many great marketing ideas," says Professor John Deighton. "He pioneered database marketing when he founded Epsilon, and now he is making permission e-mail marketing work. My... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
between 1995 and 2007. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to determine the relative impact of key factors on operative time. Explanatory learning curve models were generated, and complication data were analyzed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace