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- February 2006
- Article
R-squared Around the World: New Theory and New Tests
Keywords: Theory
Jin, Li, and Stewart C. Myers. "R-squared Around the World: New Theory and New Tests." Journal of Financial Economics 79, no. 2 (February 2006): 257–92.
- September–October 2002
- Article
Putting Strategy Hypotheses to the Test with Cause-and-Effect Analysis
By: Dennis Campbell
Campbell, Dennis. "Putting Strategy Hypotheses to the Test with Cause-and-Effect Analysis." Balanced Scorecard Report 4, no. 5 (September–October 2002).
- December 2013 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
The widespread cheating scandal that rocked the Atlanta public school system in 2010 and 2011 illustrates how high-stakes performance pressure, without sufficient risk controls, can drive dangerous behavior. After becoming superintendent of the low-income and... View Details
Keywords: Atlanta; Test; Testing; Standardized Test; Standardized Testing; No Child Left Behind; NCLB; Cheating; Performance Pressure; Measurement; Incentives; Atlanta Public Schools; Management; Leadership; Ethics; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Risk Management; Education; Education Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
Simons, Robert, and Natalie Kindred. "Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance." Harvard Business School Case 114-001, December 2013. (Revised September 2017.)
- Research Summary
Structural Breaks in Dynamic Factor Models: Representation and Testing (with James Stock and Mark Watson)
We demonstrate the equivalence of various of structural break representations for approximate dynamic factor models and show that even in the presence of such breaks, the estimated factors consistently span the fundamental factor subspaces. We propose tests to... View Details
- May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Leadership; Digital Platforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Value Creation; Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Service Industry; United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Allison Ciechanover. "Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test." Harvard Business School Case 221-050, May 2021. (Revised August 2021.)
- 22 May 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24
- September 2008
- Article
Testing Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations
By: Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman and Tarun Khanna
Dastidar, Siddhartha G., Raymond Fisman, and Tarun Khanna. "Testing Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations." Journal of Financial Economics 89, no. 3 (September 2008).
- 2003
- Working Paper
Affect and Creativity at Work: A Daily Longitudinal Test
By: Teresa M. Amabile, Sigal G. Barsade, Jennifer S. Mueller and Barry M. Staw
Keywords: Emotions
- 1980
- Chapter
Tests of Capital Market Theory and Implications of the Evidence
By: Michael Jensen
Jensen, Michael. "Tests of Capital Market Theory and Implications of the Evidence." In Handbook of Financial Economics, edited by J. L. Bicksler. North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980. (Originally published in Is Financial Analysis Useless? Proceedings of a Seminar on the Efficient Market and Random Walk Hypotheses (The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1975).)
- March 1995
- Article
Tests of Conditional Mean-Variance Efficiency of the U.S. Stock Market
By: C. Engel, J. Frankel, Kenneth A. Froot and T. Rodrigues
Keywords: Risk Aversion; Risk; International Investing; CAPM; Capital Asset Pricing; International Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Asset Pricing; Financial Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Behavioral Finance; United States
Engel, C., J. Frankel, Kenneth A. Froot, and T. Rodrigues. "Tests of Conditional Mean-Variance Efficiency of the U.S. Stock Market." Journal of Empirical Finance 2 (March 1995). (Revised from NBER Working Paper Nos. 2890, March 1989 and 4292, March 1993, "Conditional Mean-Variance Efficiency of the U.S. Stock Market," March 1993.)
- February 2002
- Article
Endogenous Policy Decentralization: Testing the Central Tenet of Economic Federalism
By: Koleman Strumpf and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Strumpf, Koleman, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Endogenous Policy Decentralization: Testing the Central Tenet of Economic Federalism." Journal of Political Economy 110, no. 1 (February 2002): 1–36.
- 1996
- Other Unpublished Work
Testing for Structural Change in the Predictability of Asset Returns
By: Luis M. Viceira
Viceira, Luis M. "Testing for Structural Change in the Predictability of Asset Returns." 1996.
- March 1987
- Article
Using Survey Data to Test Standard Propositions Regarding Exchange Rate Expectations
By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; Asset Pricing; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; Analytics and Data Science; Finance
Frankel, J., and K. A. Froot. "Using Survey Data to Test Standard Propositions Regarding Exchange Rate Expectations." American Economic Review 77, no. 1 (March 1987): 133–153. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 1672.)
- 2015
- Article
Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24
We analyze balanced scorecard data from a convenience store chain, Store24, during the implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful, strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to... View Details
Campbell, Dennis, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan. "Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures: Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24." Journal of Management Accounting Research 27, no. 2 (2015): 39–65.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Experimental Evidence on Policies Aimed at Closing the Gender Gap in Willingness to Guess on Multiple-Choice Tests
Research has shown that women skip more questions than men on multiple-choice tests with penalties for wrong answers. We propose and test five policy changes aimed at eliminating this source of gender bias in test scores. Our data show that simply removing the penalty... View Details
- Research Summary
What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Testing the Legal Bonding Hypothesis
On March 29, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its intention to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. securities antifraud regime and thus differentially exclude U.S.-listed foreign firms from the ambit of formal U.S. antifraud enforcement. We use this legal... View Details
- Article
Public Goods and Posterity: An Empirical Test of Intergenerational Altruism
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "Public Goods and Posterity: An Empirical Test of Intergenerational Altruism." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 13, no. 2 (April 2003): 165–176.
- January 1995
- Teaching Note
GenRad, 1990 (A): At a Crossroads in Electronic Test TN
Keywords: Electronics Industry
- Article
A Test of the Equilibrium Hypothesis Based on Inventories: A Communication
By: Gilbert Ducos, Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Ducos, Gilbert, Jerry R. Green, and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "A Test of the Equilibrium Hypothesis Based on Inventories: A Communication." European Economic Review 18, no. 1 (1982): 209–219.
- 2024
- Working Paper
How Real Is Hypothetical?: A High-Stakes Test of the Allais Paradox
By: Uri Gneezy, Yoram Halevy, Brian Hall, Theo Offerman and Jeroen van de Ven
Researchers in behavioral and experimental economics often argue that only
incentive-compatible mechanisms can elicit effort and truthful responses from participants.
Others argue that participants make less-biased decisions when the stakes
are sufficiently high.... View Details
Gneezy, Uri, Yoram Halevy, Brian Hall, Theo Offerman, and Jeroen van de Ven. "How Real Is Hypothetical? A High-Stakes Test of the Allais Paradox." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-005, August 2024.