Student Research - Doctoral - Harvard Business School

This study provides an analysis of the entry strategies of third-party data centers in the United States, an industry with assets worth hundreds of billions of dollars. We examine the market in 2018 and 2019, and compare with the physical entry of private data centers...

2020
Working Paper

Time and the Value of Data

By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti

This paper investigates the effectiveness of time-dependent data in improving the quality of AI-based products and services. Time-dependency means that data loses its relevance to problems over time. This loss causes deterioration in the algorithm's performance and,...

Forthcoming
Article
Medical Care Research and Review

A Mixed Methods Study of Change Processes Enabling Effective Transition to Team-based Care

By: Michael Anne Kyle, Emma-Louise Aveling and Sara J. Singer

Team-based care is considered central to achieving value in primary care, yet results of large-scale primary care transformation initiatives have been mixed. We explore how underlying change processes influence the effectiveness of transition to team-based care. We...

Forthcoming
Article
NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery

How Has COVID-19 Affected Health Insurance Offered by Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence from a Survey

By: Leemore S. Dafny, Yin Wei Soon, Zoë Cullen and Christopher T. Stanton

As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches toward its third quarter, loss of health insurance coverage has not figured prominently in the public debate. Data in this report demonstrate why that is, but also suggest that the apparent stability is fragile, with potentially...

2020
Working Paper

Consumers Punish Firms that Cut Employee Pay in Response to COVID-19

By: Bhavya Mohan, Serena Hagerty and Michael Norton

Two experiments, including one incentive compatible study, examine the impact of cutting pay for executives versus employees in response to COVID-19 on consumer behavior. Study 1 explores the effect of announcing cuts or no cuts to CEO and employee pay, and shows that...

Forthcoming
Article
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

The Tradeoffs Between Safety and Alert Fatigue: Data from a National Evaluation of Hospital Medication-related Clinical Decision Support

By: Zoe Co, A Jay Holmgren, David C Classen, Lisa P Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth and David W Bates

Forthcoming
Article
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Beyond the Emoticon: Are There Unintentional Cues of Emotion in Email?

By: Hayley Blunden and Andrew Brodsky

Email and text-based communication have become ubiquitous. Although recent findings indicate emotional equivalence between face-to-face and email communication, there is limited evidence of nonverbal behaviors in text-based communication, especially the kinds of...

2020
Working Paper

Quiet Fires Fail to Impress: Introverted Expressions of Passion Receive Less Social Worth

By: Grace Cormier and Jon M. Jachimowicz

Thinking of passionate people typically brings to mind their vivacious expressions. Prior research has shown that such outward manifestations of passion are often met with increased admiration and support by others. But not everyone may express their passion so...

August 2020
Article
American Journal of Public Health

A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States: Political Appeal and Public Health Efficacy

By: A Jay Holmgren, Alyssa Botelho and Allan M Brandt

Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy to address the US opioid crisis. Despite mixed scientific evidence on their effectiveness at improving health and reducing overdose deaths, 49 states and Washington, DC have adopted...

2020
Working Paper

Collaborating During Coronavirus: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of Work

By: Evan DeFilippis, Stephen Michael Impink, Madison Singell, Jeffrey T. Polzer and Raffaella Sadun

We explore the impact of COVID-19 on employee's digital communication patterns through an event study of lockdowns in 16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Using de-identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270...

July 15, 2020
Article
Harvard Business Review Digital Articles

The Implications of Working Without an Office

By: Ethan Bernstein, Hayley Blunden, Andrew Brodsky, Wonbin Sohn and Ben Waber

In early 2020, the world began what is undoubtedly the largest work-from-home experiment in history. Now, as countries reopen but COVID-19 remains a major threat, organizations are wrestling with whether and how to have workers return to their offices. Business leaders...

July–September 2020
Article
Health Care Management Review

Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation

By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani

Background: Frontline staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the contest...

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