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- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
strategists are creating algorithms to protect against climate risk nationally. I came away from the SIP with more questions than answers, but this just underscores how much my aperture has widened in terms of both the issues surrounding...
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- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
than 0.25 stars away at the end of our sample period. Moreover, the deviation grows significantly as a restaurant accumulates reviews over time. This suggests that large gains could be made by implementing optimal ratings, especially as Yelp grows. Our View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
device is actually incredibly disruptive, in that we've created the world's lowest cost and first whole body scanner. With this device, which we priced at $2,000, we can actually image the entire body. And so last fall we received the...
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- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12
bottleneck. Historically, prize-based contests have had striking success in attracting unconventional individual who can overcome difficult challenges. To determine whether this approach could solve a real big-data biologic algorithm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-072.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract In this paper we use...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
And given my background as an industrial engineer, I looked at roles that had an operations flavor to them. I also realized I really enjoyed inventing things; one of the aspects I had enjoyed most about my work as an analyst was how unstructured it was: if I was going...
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- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
rather than burying them in fine print, makes them less likely to be broken; 4) Should we make our algorithms discrimination aware? To ensure fairness, designers need to track how race or gender affects the user experience and set...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
affected U.S. innovation. We confront two empirical challenges in assessing the impact. We map all U.S. utility patents granted by March 2013 to firm-level data using a novel Internet-based matching algorithm that corrects for a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: "leaders" and "managers." Leaders focus on multi-function, high-level meetings, while managers focus on one-to-one meetings with core functions. Firms with leader CEOs are on average more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
delivery business in a number of countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Brazil, and Canada. It went public in 2014, became a FTSE-100 company in 2017, and is currently worth $5 billion. That’s the price of an incorrect answer to...
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- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
access. Second, an open platform may lead to higher investment than a proprietary platform. Third, opening one side of a proprietary platform may lower incentives to invest in platform quality. Fourth, the structure of access prices of...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
this as a side hustle or as a way to save money for a specific project, or as a way to supplement their nine-to-five job. And we see people that want to sometimes create their own business on the platform and sometimes create agencies on the platform. What’s...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
Business School MBA Class of 2020, neither of them could have guessed that their efforts to negotiate on the price of their student loans would be transformed into a viable new venture. However, before they had even set foot on campus,...
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- 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8
August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The High Price of Customer Satisfaction By: Keiningham, Timothy, Sunil Gupta, Lerzan Aksoy, and Alexander Buoye Abstract—Managers often assume that improving customer satisfaction and financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
a product or service, any business can improve its innovation track record, creating products that customers will pay premium prices to bring into their lives. Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
fit. We study competing retailers that can operate dual channels ("bricks and clicks") and examine how pricing strategies and physical store assistance levels change as a result of the additional Internet outlet. A central...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
example, to provide opportunities for more individuals to gain important skills in short bursts.Fuller: Well, one of the true impediments to both upward mobility and labor-market fluidity in the U.S. has been the lack of a shared-skills ontology. It would be a steep...
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