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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
“software robotics,” automates repetitive and routine digital processes using more or less the same steps as a human user. This could be inventory management, resume matching, or even opening an email. While automation has been tied to...
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- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been largely correlational, leaving View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
skills that we need for a role?” and try to match them with the candidates, I think it’s a more equitable way. And also it opens up a bigger pool of talent to attract and to have your interviews and discussions with. So it makes sense....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
hours you want, accept only the jobs you want that are offered through gig platforms? At all levels of the job spectrum, you can go to a Toptal to get data scientists, go to a Catalent to get strategy consultants and marketing experts....
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- 14 Dec 2020
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What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
Number one, understand that this vaccine that's being approved is not like other approved drugs from the US Food and Drug Administration. Usually [drugmakers] have months and months to run trials, yielding much more data and evidence....
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- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Research Data Uncertainty in Markov Chains: Application to Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Medical Innovations By: Goh, Joel, Mohsen Bayati, Stefanos A. Zenios, Sundeep Singh, and David Moore Abstract—Cost-effectiveness studies of medical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
Calibrating the model to data from the Financial Accounts of the U.S., the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
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The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get...
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by Julia Hanna
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
August afternoon marks their first meeting in real life. They celebrate with elbow bumps and a hurried hug or two before everyone squeezes into the elevator for the trip to the sixth floor. The doors open to the welcoming scene of the...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled
physical classroom, especially for younger students. They need that support, that community, but in terms of the core learning part of it, I think this crisis will open folks’ minds all the more to using online tools for learning. JJHK: I...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
ethical dilemma without fear of being mired in the consequences? How would you answer an inconvenient question? Courage and Conviction deals with the subject of ethical dilemmas in personal and work life. Opening with a discussion on the...
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- 02 Jan 2012
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Most Popular Articles of 2011
has shown that possessing a great deal of power does not necessarily make someone a good leader. This paper explores the idea that power actually has a detrimental effect on leadership, especially with regard to how it affects open...
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- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States, comprehensive View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2005
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Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
extreme example of distancing from organizational tensions: They simply decide to work on their own. Naomi Rothman—a colleague at New York University—and I are analyzing data on contingent workers and are trying to understand their...
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- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
success and (b) develop a set of instruments to assess RE risk factors and to design, evaluate, and apply effective measures to mitigate those risks. The data collection consists of interviews with RE experts and other experienced...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
produced over the same period. The latest data from the US Energy Information Administration and the International Renewable Energy Agency indicate that the levelized costs of wind and solar energy already meet, or beat, that of new oil...
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- 06 Nov 2000
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The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
experimented with computers and with designing an electronic office of the future. It formed Xerox Computer Services, acquired Scientific Data Systems, and opened its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
wants to open a chain of retail shops selling a commodity product you can get anywhere for 25 cents, but he will charge 2 dollars. Of course, you listen politely and then fall off your chair laughing when he leaves. [Starbucks founder]...
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- 11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
Hagiu and Altman provide a framework for doing so. They lay out four specific ways in which products and services can be turned into platforms and examine the strategic advantages and pitfalls of each: (1) opening the door to third...
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Sean Silverthorne