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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
effectiveness of inspections by allowing cities to target restaurants that are most likely to have a hygiene violation. In this work, we report the first empirical study demonstrating the utility of review analysis for predicting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Brookings, 2009) Abstract Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (drill, baby, drill), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712447-PDF-ENG Caijing Magazine (A) Karthik Ramanna and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Case 112-028 In late 2009, Wang Boming, publisher of Caijing Magazine, widely regarded as China's most View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
"ground game." Specifically, we look at how different types of advertising―candidates' own ads vs. outside ads―and personal selling―in the form of utilizing field offices―affect voter preferences. Further, we ask how these...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
lines. Study 4 shows that the transaction utility of maximizing profits required greater compensation when resources were distributed across, in contrast to within, social categories. We discuss the ethical implications of these...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
utilize such data are of considerable interest. Unfortunately, existing methods for analyzing the data in such systems ignore the open-ended exploratory nature of such systems that requires the assessment of multiple possible adverse...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an...
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- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
they pursued the mission through various organizational structures." She said that the National Audubon Society in the United States is a network of organizations, some of them corporate-owned and others independent or formerly View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
They focused on utility patents, or new or improved useful products that grant the inventor exclusive commercial rights for up to 20 years. To qualify, patents needed to list at least one US inventor. What they found was a huge spike in...
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by Rachel Layne
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
giving it more independent leadership, (2) provide more “community training” on the use of user data, (3) “invest in reducing fake articles,” (4) publish a quarterly “report to Congress” regarding “detailed privacy issues/actions”, and...
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- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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by HBS News
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
rather this erroneously imputed utility that lingers in memory. Here we review the roles of these streams of utility in shaping preferences, and discuss how neuroimaging offers unique possibilities for...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty, but business enterprises have rarely been identified as significant independent actors. This book argues that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
planning, caution, and preparedness; and order, focused on respect, structure, and shared norms. These styles fit into an "integrated culture framework" according to the degree to which they reflect independence or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
the platform will help streamline global trade since shipping goods internationally is an extraordinarily complicated and inefficient process. Maersk intends for stakeholders throughout the supply chain to utilize the platform, including...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
people who train at our expense.” His final volley was, “Labor cost is not what makes us noncompetitive, stupidity is.” Perhaps the most striking suggestion came from a representative of the Independent Workers Party of Chicago: “The...
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- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But...
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- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
competitive situation, whereas women exerted similar amounts of effort whether or not they were competing. “There's a strongly held assumption that men are competitive and women aren't, and our results show otherwise.” In addition, past studies mostly View Details
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by Kim Girard
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
scenario, first "broke the back" of the DSL-based local phone companies, or ILECs (Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers), with low-cost digital telephony and broadband services. But with independent content providers squeezed out, an...
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- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
patients with laryngeal cleft seen between 2008 and 2013 at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Pediatric Aerodigestive Center. Retrospective chart review was performed to identify clinic utilization by patients as well as patient...
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Sean Silverthorne