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- July 1982 (Revised March 1984)
- Background Note
Worked Examples in Dynamic Programming
By: David E. Bell
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
Bell, David E. "Worked Examples in Dynamic Programming." Harvard Business School Background Note 183-028, July 1982. (Revised March 1984.)
- Oct 2020
- Conference Presentation
Optimal, Truthful, and Private Securities Lending
By: Emily Diana, Michael J. Kearns, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
We consider a fundamental dynamic allocation problem motivated by the problem of securities lending in financial markets, the mechanism underlying the short selling of stocks. A lender would like to distribute a finite number of identical copies of some scarce resource... View Details
Diana, Emily, Michael J. Kearns, Seth Neel, and Aaron Leon Roth. "Optimal, Truthful, and Private Securities Lending." Paper presented at the 1st Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), October 2020.
- Article
Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Cross-Sectional Dependence and Heteroskedasticity in Cross-Sectional Financial Data
By: K. A. Froot
Keywords: Econometrics; Panel Estimation; Autocorrelation; Heteroskedasticity; Mathematical Methods; Economics
Froot, K. A. "Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Cross-Sectional Dependence and Heteroskedasticity in Cross-Sectional Financial Data." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 24, no. 3 (September 1989): 333–355. (Revised from NBER Technical Working Paper No. 62.)
- November 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Background Note
Math for Strategists
By: Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin
Great strategists rely heavily on numbers as they go about their work. Offers an overview of the high- and low-brow quantitative tools that students encounter during the Strategy course. The class explores high-brow tools in detail; the focus here is on low-brow... View Details
Khanna, Tarun, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Math for Strategists." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-433, November 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- fall 1973
- Article
Statistical Sampling in Auditing with Auxiliary Information Estimators
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Statistical Sampling in Auditing with Auxiliary Information Estimators." Journal of Accounting Research 11 (fall 1973): 238–258.
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
problems like advertising auctions and market design. The accelerating phenomenon has given rise to a new field within economics called the economics of digitization. Research from the field is quickly finding its way into practice,... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
likelihood of valuable outcomes. However, the methods you'll use will differ from, and sometimes conflict with, methods that work when you do know where you're going. There is an increasingly important... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how incompatible assumptions across subgroups may inhibit the generation of multidisciplinary knowledge. While organizational studies View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
get out of the way. But we also have to be prepared. Where the market fails to provide the service, we have to step in." Genes On The Web In a discussion moderated by HBS Professor Josh Lerner, participants in the panel on "Genes on the Web" emphasized the positive... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
that area. The real question is, when are these different methods appropriate, and under what circumstances? In international development there's been a lot of experimentation that hasn't quite made its way to the United States yet. A... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
additional sources of innovation beyond their research and development can set up simple methods for harnessing user feedback. Traditionally, a company might offer a suggestion box to engage users, but... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly traded companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
The Shapley Value as a von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "The Shapley Value as a von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility." Econometrica 45, no. 3 (April 1977): 657–664.
- June 1994
- Article
Influence of Mathematical Models in Finance on Practice: Past, Present and Future
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "Influence of Mathematical Models in Finance on Practice: Past, Present and Future." Series A. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Physical Sciences and Engineering 347 (June 1994): 451–463. (Reprinted in Financial Practice and Education, spring 1995.)
- Article
Portfolio Value-at-Risk Optimization for Asymmetrically Distributed Asset Returns
By: Joel Goh, Kian Guan Lim, Melvyn Sim and Weina Zhang
We propose a new approach to portfolio optimization by separating asset return distributions into positive and negative half-spaces. The approach minimizes a newly-defined Partitioned Value-at-Risk (PVaR) risk measure by using half-space statistical information. Using... View Details
Goh, Joel, Kian Guan Lim, Melvyn Sim, and Weina Zhang. "Portfolio Value-at-Risk Optimization for Asymmetrically Distributed Asset Returns." European Journal of Operational Research 221, no. 2 (September 1, 2012): 397–406.
- July 1985 (Revised March 1994)
- Background Note
Exposure and Hedging
By: David E. Bell
Describes the concept of exposure; the dependence of a goal on an uncertain external event. Describes in detail how hedges may be constructed to eliminate exposure, including the algebra of cross-hedging and hedge ratios. The relevance of regression analysis is... View Details
Bell, David E. "Exposure and Hedging." Harvard Business School Background Note 186-036, July 1985. (Revised March 1994.)
- 1976
- Book
Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America
Wheeler, Michael A. Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1976.
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
tackle if reporting is to achieve legitimacy in the system of market capitalism, says Ramanna. "One of the things we hope the conference does is bring to bear some of our research methods to address... View Details