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- 07 Mar 2024
- News
Billionaire Joe Lewis Places a 34-Year-Old Atop Besieged Empire
- fall 1994
- Article
Creditor Control in Financially Distressed Firms: The Empirical Evidence
By: S. C. Gilson and M. R. Vetsuypens
Gilson, S. C., and M. R. Vetsuypens. "Creditor Control in Financially Distressed Firms: The Empirical Evidence." Washington University Law Quarterly 72 (fall 1994): 1005–1025.
- Article
The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis
By: S. N. Kaplan and R. S. Ruback
Kaplan, S. N., and R. S. Ruback. "The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis." Journal of Finance 50, no. 4 (September 1995).
- 1995
- Working Paper
From Technological Potential to Product Performance: An Empirical Analysis
By: Marco Iansiti
- 10 Dec 2008
- News
Watching the sun set on the great British empire
- 08 May 2018
- News
How HBS Helped Wolfgang Puck Build a Food Empire
- September 2012
- Article
The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence
By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold
Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Findings are as follows: MNC corporate headquarters are...
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Keywords:
Headquarters;
Subsidiaries;
Multinational Corporations;
Organization Design;
Administrative Heritage;
International Strategy;
Business Subsidiaries;
Organizational Design;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Size;
Business Headquarters;
Global Strategy
Collis, David J., David Young, and Michael Goold. "The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence." Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September 2012): 260–275.
- 2020
- Conference Presentation
An Empirical Study of the Trade-Offs Between Interpretability and Fairness
By: Shahin Jabbari, Han-Ching Ou, Himabindu Lakkaraju and Milind Tambe
Jabbari, Shahin, Han-Ching Ou, Himabindu Lakkaraju, and Milind Tambe. "An Empirical Study of the Trade-Offs Between Interpretability and Fairness." Paper presented at the ICML Workshop on Human Interpretability in Machine Learning, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020.
- 2017
- Chapter
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
By: William R. Kerr
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Diaspora;
Diasporas;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Immigration;
United States
Kerr, William R. "U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence." Chap. 6 in The International Mobility of Talent and Innovation: New Evidence and Policy Implications, edited by Carsten Fink and Ernest Miguelez, 193–221. Intellectual Property, Innovation and Economic Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in...
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Keywords:
Industrial Organization;
Chinitz;
Agglomeration;
Clusters;
Cities;
Mines;
Industry Clusters;
Entrepreneurship;
City;
Mining;
Mining Industry;
Pittsburgh
Glaeser, Edward L., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr. "Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-015, August 2012. (Revised May 2015.)
- November 2012
- Article
Empirical Observations on Longer-term Use of Incentives for Weight Loss
By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Kevin Volpp
Behavioral economic-based interventions are emerging as powerful tools to help individuals accomplish their own goals, including weight loss. Deposit contract incentive systems give participants the opportunity to put their money down toward losing weight, which they...
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Keywords:
Weight Loss;
Obesity;
Behavioral Economics;
Intervention;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives
John, Leslie K., George Loewenstein, and Kevin Volpp. "Empirical Observations on Longer-term Use of Incentives for Weight Loss." Preventive Medicine 55, Supplement 1 (November 2012): S68–S74.
- 25 Aug 2005
- Conference Presentation
The Health and Safety of Quality Programs: An Empirical Evaluation
- 1995
- Article
Creditor Control in Financially Distressed Firms: The Empirical Evidence
By: S. C. Gilson and M. R. Vetsuypens
Gilson, S. C., and M. R. Vetsuypens. "Creditor Control in Financially Distressed Firms: The Empirical Evidence." Corporate Practice Commentator 37 (1995): 339–361.
- Winter 2009
- Book Review
The Reassertion of the British Empire in Southeast Asia
By: Caroline Elkins
Elkins, Caroline. "The Reassertion of the British Empire in Southeast Asia." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39, no. 3 (Winter 2009): 361–385.
- March 1990
- Article
The R&D Boundaries of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis
By: Gary P. Pisano
Pisano, Gary P. "The R&D Boundaries of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis." Administrative Science Quarterly 35, no. 1 (March 1990): 153–176.
- winter 2007
- Article
The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis
By: Josh Lerner, Benjamin Chiao and Jean Tirole
Lerner, Josh, Benjamin Chiao, and Jean Tirole. "The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis." RAND Journal of Economics 38, no. 4 (winter 2007): 905–930. (Earlier versions distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11156.)
- 03 Jul 2015
- News
Nike co-founder Knight steps down from unrivalled sports empire
- Spring 2018
- Article
The ‘Moral Effect’ of Legalized Lawlessness:: Violence in Britain’s Twentieth Century Empire
From 1930s Palestine to Kenya in the years following World War II, systematized violence shaped and defined much of Britain’s twentieth-century empire. Liberal authoritarianism, and with it the “moral effect” that coercion had upon colonial subjects, gave rise to the...
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Elkins, Caroline M. "The ‘Moral Effect’ of Legalized Lawlessness: Violence in Britain’s Twentieth Century Empire." Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 44, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 78–90.
- 2022
- Article
Probing GNN Explainers: A Rigorous Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of GNN Explanation Methods.
By: Chirag Agarwal, Marinka Zitnik and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly employed in real-world applications, it becomes critical to ensure that the stakeholders understand the rationale behind their predictions. While several GNN explanation methods have been proposed recently, there has...
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Keywords:
Graph Neural Networks;
Explanation Methods;
Mathematical Methods;
Framework;
Theory;
Analysis
Agarwal, Chirag, Marinka Zitnik, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Probing GNN Explainers: A Rigorous Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of GNN Explanation Methods." Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 25th (2022).