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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

use of alternative data to assess borrowers’ creditworthiness result in broader credit access? Using administrative data provided by a major fintech platform, the authors find that, compared to actual outcomes of the fintech platform’s... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

demand about as much as one's own recent payout experience. Third, the spillover effect decays as time passes while the effect of one's own experience does not. We discuss implications of this analysis for commercial sustainability of... View Details
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Course Development

By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

understanding of the entrepreneurial leader. The program combines self-assessments of their skills and behaviors by entrepreneurs themselves with evaluations of them by peers, friends, and employees. Along the way the data is also allowing scholars to study attributes... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015

of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Emphasis is on executive leadership and firm strategy in coordinating across a global network of partners in the production of a new aircraft. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared to traditional causal inference... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

and negative economic growth are experienced, with losses having more than twice as much impact on individual happiness as compared to equivalent gains. We use Gallup World Poll data drawn from 151 countries, Behavioral Risk Factor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2024
  • HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

you. It doesn’t rely on what you say. It observes what you do and choose not to do and builds a model of who you are.” Ghosh’s analysis debuts at a time when TikTok is drawing fresh scrutiny related to how its Chinese owners influence... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

run as a public utility. The Panamanian government, in contrast, has run the Canal as a for-profit corporation, increasing safety and decreasing costs along the way. Maurer and Yu's nuanced analysis of the contribution of the United... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price data suffer from insufficient detail. It would be desirable to have more data measuring value-added in trade as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

By: Edward McFowland III, Sandeep Gangarapu, Ravi Bapna and Tianshu Sun
We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing context, public... View Details
Keywords: Prescriptive Analytics; Heterogeneous Treatment Effects; Optimization; Observed Rank Utility Condition (OUR); Between-treatment Heterogeneity; Machine Learning; Decision Making; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
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  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

field experiment to examine how workplace safety inspections affected injury rates and other outcomes. We compared 409 randomly inspected establishments in California with 409 matched-control establishments that were eligible, but not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55802 forthcoming Journal of Medical Economics Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Analysis for Outpatient Anticoagulation Therapy: Direct Costs in a Primary Care... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

Democratic-leaning areas. And new customers of Black-owned businesses were more likely to be white, based on an analysis of reviewers’ profile photos, relative to prior customers. Luca and his coauthors also worked with Wayfair to analyze... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 31 Mar 2009
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    First Look: March 31, 2009

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 06 Feb 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

    Amazon’s own increase in patent activity, Bezos’ most active year was 2009, when he published 20 of Amazon's 72 patents. In that year, Bezos was directly involved in approximately 28 percent of all patents compared to only 0.7 percent of... View Details
    Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail
    • 21 Feb 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

    Administration. He looked most closely at decisions made during phase two clinical trials—the period when diseased patients are treated with the test drug and results are compared with patients randomly receiving a placebo. The trials can... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health