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- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
shocks." They focused on two potential shocks: bad weather and big sporting events. "We were lucky," Sadun says. "We happened to collect the data during monsoon season. At the same time, during the study...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
year, it welcomed a user with loads of data—the city itself. Partner communities can alert Waze users to planned traffic incidents (concerts, sporting events) and road closures, reducing congestion; users get a better drive. The...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Americans, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ivy League alums, high-school grads, and parents offers coping strategies to help ordinary people turn challenges into extraordinary opportunities for action. College Sports Traditions: Before,...
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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
live TV, the play might soon reappear on a sports network's Twitter feed. According to Brown, users' attention spans are somewhat proportional to the size of the screens they use. That means they're less willing to sit through an...
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- 22 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights
the ability of cities and states to attract corporate investment. Tourism — including conventions and major sporting events — is a specific concern. In a 2016 poll, nearly 50% of American meeting planners said they would avoid planning...
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- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
complaint data for insurance agents, we find that agents working exclusively for large branded firms are more likely to be the subject of justified sales complaints, relative to smaller independent experts, despite doing substantially...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
sustainability investments, and an increasing number of investors integrate sustainability performance data in their capital allocation decisions. To date, however, the prior academic literature has not distinguished between investments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Deregulation does not necessarily lead to lower prices to consumers.” Judging Foreign Startups Nataliya Langburd Wright, Rembrand Koning, and Tarun Khanna “Can accelerators and investors pick the most promising startup ideas no matter their provenance? We investigate...
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- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
detailed data about H-1B applications, says Kerr. "It's an unfortunate event that as the H1-B issue has become more controversial, the amount of available data has shrunk.") “The debate has gotten to the...
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- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
lobbying efforts in local and federal circles for stricter regulations governing Airbnb. The study focused on data from 2014, and the impact on hotels could be even greater today given Airbnb's strong growth since then. In addition to...
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- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use data from the Census...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that plane who boarded on time," she says. "But then there is this person who really cannot read. And she is a customer. And we want her on our plane. But how do we teach her how to fly?" The first-time flyer market in Brazil has risen dramatically in recent years. São...
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- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
adapt over time. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/03/choosing-the-right-customer/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Incorporating Field Data into Archival Research By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—Companies that win in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
further down the ladder—a discussion that could easily stretch beyond business to the lavishly compensated worlds of professional sports and entertainment. There's also the concern over executive pay at firms that received government...
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- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
environments and does not seem to be explained by measurement error. Third, difference in differences estimates with respect to the cost of effort, due to weather shocks and popular sport events, reveal that the observed difference...
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Carmen Nobel
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Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Building Web 3 Businesses Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein Spring2025 Q3 1.5 Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management) Natalia Rigol Benjamin N. Roth Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Coming of Managerial Capitalism Tom...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
She asked Bulletin readers for their thoughts. The Decision: “We absolutely went digital,” Cass says. Doing so required adding mechanical and software engineering specialties to the team, as well as a data scientist. They also pivoted...
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Jen McFarland Flint
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Building Web 3 Businesses Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein Spring2025 Q3 1.5 Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management) Natalia Rigol Benjamin N. Roth Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Coming of Managerial Capitalism Tom...
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- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
spiritual growth, growth in top-level sporting teams, and so on." Angelo Giovas goes even further in suggesting that "the key is not more outward growth (which, as was pointed out in the article, has its limits) but more inward...
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by James Heskett