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- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
Case 118-053 Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus A gerontologist in Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado region is concerned with the high and growing cost of treating the elderly population. She introduces a new care model, Primary...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region of the United States in August 2005, it destroyed homes and lives. A paradoxical effect, however, is that the storm's aftermath created an opening in New Orleans for school leaders...
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Biotech, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals: News
What are the news resources for biotech, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals industries? The following databases provides news related to all three industries: You may begin with: Informa - The database...
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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
demonstrate that identity appeals can backfire, alienating the very individuals they aim to attract. We begin by demonstrating backlash against identity appeals in the field during the 2016 presidential election (Study 1) and in the lab...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
education, health care, and the environment at the organizational level of analysis unless we figure out a way to measure collective performance when multiple actors are involved. But funders tend to want to reward individual organizations. We need View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
to handle changing workforce needs that make sparing use of staff reductions and ensure that if they do happen, the process feels fair and the affected parties have a soft landing. Most successful approaches begin with a philosophy that...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
worldwide phenomenon. Sensing, analyzing, and developing appropriate responses to the complex new demands of the expanded, global marketplace is difficult, and the greatest challenge comes in developing the organizational capabilities and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
either full or part time, while only 13 percent said they don’t want to work remotely at all post-COVID-19. In fact, the pandemic has accelerated the virtual work trend, acting as a no-going-back turning point for many companies, according to Neeley’s View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
from entrepreneurs to historians to understand the ever-changing workplace. Beginning in April, the podcast started recording frequent COVID-19 dispatches on topics such as the pandemic’s outsized impact on low-income workers and the...
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- 01 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens
Fernando de la Rua, the President of Argentina noted, "This is an historic day," about the opening of the School's new Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires. Speaking as guest of honor at the Center's inaugural dinner on...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
Beverage, Shanda, Fosun, Focus, and Tsinghua University. Purpose: Begin to comprehend some of the fundamental changes in the Chinese economic and social system, and how entrepreneurship is being facilitated to play a role in this. Also...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Silicon Valley or the Napa wine country) that can lead to competitive advantage. Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness has just introduced a new database tool to help corporations and policy makers pinpoint these clusters,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
journalists are embedded in Iraq, compared with 500 in Vietnam in the 1970s. Is the decline of the Fourth Estate no more lamentable than that of the Sony Walkman? Things are feeling downright funereal. Newsweek purged 111 staffers from its masthead, while rival U.S....
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- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
By: Kerr, William R., and Ufuk Akcigit Abstract—We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2017
- HBS Seminar
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The New York Times and Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
- 2018
- Working Paper
Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing.
By: Xiaojia Guo, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr. and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
We introduce an exponential smoothing model that a manager can use to forecast the demand of a new product or service. The model has five features that make it suitable for accurately forecasting product life cycles at scale. First, the trend in our model follows the...
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New Product Development;
Demand Forecasting;
Product Adoption;
Innovation Diffusion;
Product Development;
Demand and Consumers;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Adoption
Guo, Xiaojia, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., and Yael Grushka-Cockayne. "Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-038, October 2018. (Darden Business School Working Paper, No. 2805244, July 2016.)
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
a force, the cost of creating a new design must be within the reach of a single user. User innovations occur when customers of a product improve on that product with their own designs. In rodeo kayaking, the early participants built...
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- 18 Feb 2016
Australia and New Zealand at HBS Webinar
This webinar will highlight the Australian & New Zealand communities at HBS. It will include a brief presentation followed by a current student panel discussion. The webinar will begin at 8 PM EST.
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- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
selling season. As common in practice, we assume the demand function contains unknown parameters, which must be learned from sales data. In the presence of these unknown demand parameters, the retailer faces a tradeoff commonly referred to as the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
A New Ecosystem for Business and Society
survived." Dean Clark continued this theme by discussing issues that businesses, society and higher education need to recognize and confront. For business, he said, the Internet has brought about the creation of "an entirely new...
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by Martha Lagace