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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

sell toothpicks; you can just follow a linear regression line. But if you are trying to sell a three-quarter-length floral print dress that’s only available for one season, you need more sophisticated models... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. Using an instrumental variables approach derived from a regression discontinuity, we find that increasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

specific, challenging goals motivate performance far better than "do your best" exhortations. Authors Lisa D. Ordóñez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman argue that it is often these same characteristics of goals that cause them to "go wild."... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

in different ways. Business Analytics teaches participants to apply basic statistics to real business problems and includes hands-on practice implementing analyses in Excel. The course covers descriptive statistics, sampling and estimation, hypothesis testing, and... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

model for explaining how network resources contribute to organizational performance. Reach is the extent to which an organization's network connects it to diverse and distant partners. Richness represents the potential value of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Statistical Resources - Research Computing Services

binary models and count data models An introduction to Arellano-Bond model An introduction to Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent estimators An introduction to... View Details
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Workshops & Technical Talks - Research Computing Services

Training Training Workshops & Technical Talks 3ms See below for trainings, reference materials, and resources at Harvard and beyond. R R workshop materials (e.g., Intro to R; R Regression models) from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative... View Details
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

protecting its local focus and traditions? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-031 Caesars Entertainment This case describes the introduction of a regression... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

between 1995 and 2007. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to determine the relative impact of key factors on operative time. Explanatory learning curve models were generated, and complication... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

probabilistic record linkage model that allows for missing data and the inclusion of auxiliary information: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fastLink/index.html . Machine Learning R Caret package, short for “Classification and... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match estimates of the intergenerational transmission of earnings ability in the United States, and use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

when the sovereign is temporarily excluded from capital markets. Differently from previous analyses, we assume that in addition to accumulating international reserves, countries can borrow internationally using their own currency. As opposed to traditional sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

School's ongoing International Seminar Series. This area of research is of universal interest. After all, a basic question that any multinational business would like to answer is this: Is there a single business model or set of best... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 15, 2006

  Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

transactions. The analyst used the Cox regression model—an approach originally used to determine which patients would die and which would live over certain time periods-of "survival analysis." The analysis discovered that the... View Details
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Dec 2006
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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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne