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- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
time, some type of gun-purchase waiting-period law. To understand the causal effect of waiting periods, the team exploited the significant geographic and temporal variations in the implementation of waiting periods. The researchers tested... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
assumed it was some combination of choice, poor financial decisions, and bad luck,” says Shumway, the founder, chairman, and former CEO of Cicero Group, a Salt Lake City–based consulting firm that uses advanced analytics to help clients develop and View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Ximena Garcia-Rada
doctorate, she preferred to gain some industry experience first. “I went on to spend two years in marketing consulting,” Ximena explains. “During this time, I realized how much I enjoyed the intellectual challenge of my job; I was more interested in figuring out the... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
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Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
and implement our idea for a kids’ menu,” says Jiang. “But we discovered that the consumer preferences and concepts of a bakery were completely different in Brazil. It challenged us to understand the customers’ mind-sets,” explains... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
they implement their approaches in all the countries in which they operate. The research was sparked by a discussion of layoffs in the required MBA course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Sucher was initially surprised to discover... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
in its performance. The case illustrates the power of a great leader. All of the reforms Ghosn implemented were originally proposed by middle managers who had been working for Nissan for twenty years; they were instrumental in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team did recommend its View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
ability to exist,” Ferguson says. Burnt Island Ventures is committed to finding and implementing solutions to everyday water concerns around the world. Some countries lack the means to provide clean water to their residents. That is not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
improve the level of critical and divergent thinking before decisions are made while simultaneously building consensus to help implement those decisions. Actual situations examined include tragedy atop Mt. Everest and the space shuttle... View Details
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
them by favoring reform based on central government control rather than the forces of competition, meritocracy, and individual accountability. Let me be clear about one thing: the previous government, as most previous governments, failed Greece. In my opinion, it did... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
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IFC: Europe; Decarbonization and Sustainable Production - Course Catalog
(due to the nature of IFCs, auditing is not permitted) Career Focus Decarbonization and sustainability are becoming an essential part of business agendas, and some companies and organizations in Europe lead the world in experimentation and View Details
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
extraction with a nice Python wrapper Camelot : a Python package that extracts tables from PDFs Fuzzy Matching Python Python’s dedupe package supports fuzzy matching using machine learning: https://github.com/dedupeio/dedupe . R R’s fastLink package supports fuzzy... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological innovations to the marketing literature: first, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
prove that the Passive House model could be implemented within a variety of architectural styles, opening the door to wider adoption in many different settings. Harper, who spent the first 20 years of her career in finance, launched... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
converting planning to action. The MCAP contains ambitious mitigation and adaptation goals but lacks specific funding sources or enabling legislation. Therefore, the MCAP remains a suggestion document rather than a concrete plan for View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
investing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of employees and contractors to implement it. The market capitalization of the company dropped over $100 billion in one day, now roughly back to the pre-crisis level. At the same time,... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
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Deals Q2 - Course Catalog
implementation of agreements; complexities that can arise through agency, asymmetric information, moral hazard, and adverse selection; structural, psychological, and interpersonal barriers that can hinder agreement; and the particular... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Making Finance Personal
solutions, he has aggressively implemented the notion that customers, through their implicit choices or explicit actions (what Cook calls a “user contribution system”), and his brainstorming employees (in small groups within the company... View Details