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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
the start-ups I’ve launched, that knowledge helped us, eventually, to build a very successful product. Do you think that iterative approach is best suited to high-tech start-ups, or would it be as valid in another sector? If you believe...
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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Medicine program allows patients to record their blood pressure at home and share readings with their medical providers in real time. A year and a half after launching the program, the health system’s internal startup, innovationOchsner, has gathered promising clinical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
staggered boards can be beneficial for early-life-cycle firms, which exhibit greater information asymmetries between insiders and investors. These results are validated using a larger sample of firms from the Investor Responsibility...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
on two validation databases. The results suggest several important findings. First, methods do matter. The differences observed in predictive accuracy across submissions could change the profitability of a churn management campaign by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential employees. Unfortunately, there is little evidence about the validity of these ratings. We examine how well two of the most widely used ratings—those of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Inequality in the Digital Age: A Conversation with Mahzarin Banaji - Blog: RaGE Report
twitching is not as good as ‘that’ kind of facial twitching. Yet we have no evidence about the validity of what is being measured. Then, of course, there's the problem that algorithms are not transparent. Even for the people who wrote...
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- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
through on 20 reservations, a diner receives a $20 discount, valid at any OpenTable partner restaurant. Essentially, diners receive a buck per meal for reserving a table through OpenTable. "You might know the restaurant isn't going to be...
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
care, security, and more). These are valid reasons. But there are workarounds that work. At Harvard Business School, my research looks at ways that the private sector can finance and deliver public infrastructure. For the last three...
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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
discriminant validity from voice-related individual and organizational factors and their incremental predictive validity on workplace silence. Collectively, the results from the four studies indicate the...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
of the criteria for psychometric validity, and 14 showed significant relationships to non-self-report outcomes. Conclusions: Evidence of psychometric validity is lacking for many teamwork survey instruments. However, several...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
ODBC - Research Computing Services
blank. It is recommended to use your personal database Please be sure to click on Test to validate your connection settings! Now you should see your newly created Data Source Name under the User DSN tab. Click OK and you are done! Setup...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
appeal in some quarters, the value of a college degree is still borne out by the numbers in terms of lifetime earnings. Of course, there are caveats, particularly when you consider wealth creation. Can online college, buoyed by the pandemic’s View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
to Be True Google’s founders wrote “10 Things We Know to Be True,” a document detailing founding principles and values, early in the company’s life. As the company expanded, added business units, and changed its name to Alphabet, were these principles and values still...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
four leading global food safety firms gives their testing a certain level of external validity that they may not enjoy by doing their own testing, although big companies such as Nestle remain strongly committed to in-house monitoring. In...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000 digital currencies currently exist and hit a total market cap of...
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- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
alternative means of understanding these decisions that is highly complementary to the large-sample research in several ways. First, the cases in the book serve as manifestations and validation of some of the lessons of large-sample...
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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
and (3) sustainability of health. Within these tiers, 22 patient-centered outcomes were defined with inclusion/exclusion criteria and specifications for reporting. Patient data sources will include the Epic Systems EHR and validated...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of exogenous price variation to assess the validity of this prediction: higher tariffs should lead to higher prices and therefore to more integration. We construct...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
appropriate relational contracts within the firm. In this paper we report the first results from a research program designed to test the empirical validity of this idea. We use the quasi-randomized roll out across multiple sites within a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Voice of Experience A lot of people think that dot-coms in Asia are just taking U.S. technology and replicating the same business models. That may have been a valid criticism in the past, but things are really changing.” The speaker is...
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