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- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
rather than misdeeds and malfeasance.— Lynn S. Paine Moreover, new issues are constantly coming to the fore as a result of changes in technology, society, and politics. For instance, data privacy was not a major issue until the late 1980s...
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by Carla Tishler
- Web
Best Practices - Research Computing Services
Data Practices Best Practices 4ms Below, we present general data management and efficiency best practices, provide software specific data recommendations, and highlight...
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- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
bonds, a standard measurement used by investment firms. He then matched the data against instances of wrongdoing covering a six-year period. The more the portfolio balance tipped toward stocks, the greater the chance of trouble....
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by Roberta Holland
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
large-store formats, multiple-store formats and extensive channel blurring in the U.S. retail industry. Our analysis is based on aggregate segment-level data from the Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), the Monthly Retail Trade Survey...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
fully extended attraction models (Cooper and Nakanishi 1988). Utilizing a database of store-level scanner data for 25 categories and 127 brands of frequently purchased branded consumer goods, we find that about 18 percent of a total of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
materiality map. Once I did that, I was able to come to the conclusion that acquiring a leading ESG position would potentially help this company gain market share during an upcoming industry consolidation post the Covid-19 crisis. I evaluated the company’s utility...
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- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
chosen strategy. By enabling an honest, organization-wide, and public conversation, senior management teams, working collaboratively with scholar-consultants and organizational members, have access to valid data (the unvarnished truth),...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Research - Managing the Future of Work
Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative...
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- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
characterize business in developed market economies. CEM has reached a worldwide audience consisting both of practitioners and consultants, as well as university professors and students who have incorporated the materials into their coursework and applied the View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary employee View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges. A...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
especially with grocers, is that they use these cards to give discounts at the checkout. In the process of doing this, they have accumulated a lot of data. What they do with that data is anybody's guess. Other retailers, such as Talbots...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
Financials Supplemental Financial Information 5-Year Data SummaryCFO LetterFinancial HighlightsStatement of Activity & Cash FlowsConsolidated Balance SheetSupplemental Financial Information page 2 of 2 Expenses The School’s total...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
to a particular job, rating the importance of each. After considering this information, the learning team created an "offshorability rating" between 0 and 100 for each of its assigned occupations, with a rating of 100 indicating that the task (such as View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
established assumptions. The tire industry data also provide insights into the micro-processes that contribute to inertia. Taken-for-granted shared assumptions about the industry were enacted through established organizational routines,...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
model incorporating this idea that predicts that although more ideas will be produced during slack time, they will have higher average complexity and perhaps even higher average value. Using data on 165,410 projects posted on Kickstarter...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
categorize the world, emphasizing some values or activities over others. In other words, languages shape the way people think. After hearing about one such theory from visiting doctoral student Hao Liang from Tilburg University, Harvard...
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
perverse effect of perpetuating the problem. Drawing on a case study of a professional service firm, we develop a multilevel theory to explain why organizations are caught in this conundrum. We present data suggesting that the work-family...
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Dina Gerdeman