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Group Fairness in Dynamic Refugee Assignment
By: Daniel Freund, Thodoris Lykouris, Elisabeth Paulson, Bradley Sturt and Wentao Weng
Ensuring that refugees and asylum seekers thrive (e.g., find employment) in their host countries is a profound humanitarian goal, and a primary driver of employment is the geographic
location within a host country to which the refugee or asylum seeker is... View Details
Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, Elisabeth Paulson, Bradley Sturt, and Wentao Weng. "Group Fairness in Dynamic Refugee Assignment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-047, February 2023.
- 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5
Publications August 2014 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem By: Quoidbach, Jordi, June Gruber, Moïra Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Bridging psychological View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
well-grounded research on how improvements can be brought to services through some of these lean concepts." Not all lean manufacturing ideas translate from factory floor to office cubicle. For example, tools such as the andon cord, a... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
new research paper demonstrates that the fundamental attribution error is so deeply rooted in our decision making that not even highly trained people-evaluators, such as hiring managers and school admissions officers, can defeat its... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
emerged: how to preserve the firm’s growth strategy and shift firm ownership while also rewarding its diverse workforce for its investment in the team’s culture, write Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Luis M. Viceira, Senior Lecturer Emily R. McComb, and... View Details
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
Using information collected during a customer’s first purchase, a new marketing tool that leverages machine learning technology can provide firms with valuable predictions about the customer’s future behavior, says Eva Ascarza, a marketing View Details
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FAQs - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
and maintain connections with student leaders throughout the term. In addition we conduct interviews with student groups for use in our research and programs with faculty.Does the Christensen Center offer training in case View Details
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
recent TNS study reported the leading activities of Internet users as: used a search engine to find information (81 percent); looked up the news (76 percent); used online banking (74 percent); looked up the weather (65 percent); View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
has been following up his initial research to determine how review sites can do just that. He notes that consistency of reviews were weakest when there were a low number—supporting the criticism by those restaurants that blame Yelp for... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
In order to test their methodology, the research team performed a series of case studies on policies with different criteria for matching. In the first instance, using the criteria and constraints of the current dominant policy, their... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
interview than the interviewee." According to Wally Bock, "When I conducted research I found that the more effective supervisors spent the bulk of their performance evaluation meeting time talking about the future." Forced... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
with their political, economic, and social environment. They address issues of central concern to researchers in management studies and business administration, as well as economics, sociology and political science, and to historians.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19
making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
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Understanding Variation across Local Communities Authors:Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana, and M. Tina Dacin Publication:In Communities and Organizations. Vol. 33, edited by Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood, 333-363. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
different fields,” says Grushka-Cockayne, whose research is on data science, forecasting, project management, and behavioral decision-making. “Our work is focused on using crowds for prediction and for forecasting something that is... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
Social Psychological & Personality Science Agent-based Modeling: A Guide for Social Psychologists By: Jackson, Joshua Conrad, David Rand, Kevin Lewis, Michael I. Norton, and Kurt Gray Abstract—Agent-based modeling is a longstanding but underused View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Common Multiples Spirit Aerosystems Dell, Inc Show Hide Details Concepts Valuation Multiples Problematic Methods Discounted Cash Flows Intricacies Mistakes Featured Exercises Calculate free cash flows, WACC, and terminal values Practice... View Details
- 05 Feb 2018
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Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
compensation data could lead to a different method in solving certain situations such as pay discrepancy " As Ali put it, "Why companies find it so difficult to talk salary when our government is so open on what each employee is... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
you've ever received? The way my father lived his life was very important to me. He was a gifted physician who spent most of his life doing research and teaching, turning his back on the more lucrative aspects of his profession. He was an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
mechanisms that allow reputation to facilitate survival in ways that persist over time. Building on research in strategy and business history, we thus shed light on an underappreciated strategic construct (reputation) in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel