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- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching
non-experts can similarly promote classroom learning by asking and answering questions. This creates a unique and supportive classroom culture. Your research focuses on data-driven policy making and the design of interventions for social... View Details
Business of Emerging Markets
Business History Initiative provides a challenging but collegial environment, with a multidisciplinary approach that has greatly expanded my perspective for future research projects. It’s also been a true revelation to see firsthand how... View Details
- July 2002
- Article
The Economist As Engineer: Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Computation As Tools of Design Economics
By: Alvin E Roth
Roth, Alvin E. "The Economist As Engineer: Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Computation As Tools of Design Economics." Econometrica 70, no. 4 (July 2002): 1341–1378.
- April 1990
- Case
Clark Material Handling Group-Overseas: Brazilian Product Strategy (A&B) (Condensed)
By: Robert J. Dolan
Assumes some knowledge of conjoint analysis. Permits analysis of basic results and dynamic market simulations in one class session. View Details
Dolan, Robert J. "Clark Material Handling Group-Overseas: Brazilian Product Strategy (A&B) (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 590-081, April 1990.
- 22 Oct 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Estimating Causal Effects in the Presence of Partial Interference Using Multivariate Bayesian Structural Time Series Models
Keywords: by Fiammetta Menchetti and Iavor Bojinov
- 09 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry
method implements. The unique case method at HBS is the result of decades of thinking critically about how to build the ability to react quickly and thoughtfully to situations. Providing someone with a... View Details
- 2006
- Book
Service Productivity Management: Improving Service Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis
By: H. David Sherman and Joe Zhu
Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance—Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates specific... View Details
Sherman, H. David, and Joe Zhu. Service Productivity Management: Improving Service Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis. Boston, MA: Springer, 2006.
- 1991
- Chapter
An Economic Approach to the Study of Bargaining
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "An Economic Approach to the Study of Bargaining." In Handbook of Negotiation Research. Vol. 3, edited by M. H. Bazerman, R. J. Lewicki, and B. H. Sheppard, 35–67. Research on Negotiation in Organizations. JAI Press, 1991.
- July 1982 (Revised March 1984)
- Background Note
Why Preference Curves are Useful for Risky Decisions
By: David E. Bell
Bell, David E. "Why Preference Curves are Useful for Risky Decisions." Harvard Business School Background Note 183-030, July 1982. (Revised March 1984.)
- 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.
- 25 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
3 Reasons I Chose to Attend HBS
and diversity of experiences of its students and faculty. The case method – When I was applying to business schools, I reviewed all of the formal performance evaluations that I had received while working as a consultant. One of the items... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. "By increasing the collaborative efforts between HBS and Harvard's scientific community, we will empower the next generation of life science entrepreneurs and provide a further... View Details
- 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.