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- 19 Mar 2025
- News
Fed Keeps Rates Unchanged as Trump Tariffs, Economic Concerns Loom
- January 2025
- Technical Note
AI vs Human: Analyzing Acceptable Error Rates Using the Confusion Matrix
By: Tsedal Neeley and Tim Englehart
This technical note introduces the confusion matrix as a foundational tool in artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) for assessing the performance of classification models, focusing on their reliability for decision-making. A confusion matrix... View Details
Keywords: Reliability; Confusion Matrix; AI and Machine Learning; Decision Making; Measurement and Metrics; Performance
Neeley, Tsedal, and Tim Englehart. "AI vs Human: Analyzing Acceptable Error Rates Using the Confusion Matrix." Harvard Business School Technical Note 425-049, January 2025.
- June 2005
- Article
Inflation, Openness, and Exchange Rate Regimes: The Quest for Short-Term Commitment
By: Laura Alfaro
This paper further tests Romer's (1993) extension of Kydland and Prescott's (1977) predictions for dynamic-inconsistency problems in open economies. In a panel data set of developed and developing countries from 1973 to 1998, I find that openness does not play a role... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economy; Currency Exchange Rate; Developing Countries and Economies; Inflation and Deflation
Alfaro, Laura. "Inflation, Openness, and Exchange Rate Regimes: The Quest for Short-Term Commitment." Journal of Development Economics 77, no. 1 (June 2005): 229–249.
- August 1971 (Revised June 1975)
- Background Note
Methods of Calculating Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return
Frey, Sherwood C. "Methods of Calculating Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return." Harvard Business School Background Note 172-060, August 1971. (Revised June 1975.)
- 26 Mar 2013
- News
Housing Market Shows Fastest Rate of Recovery Since Before the Crash
- October 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946–2002
By: Rafael Di Tella
The case describes Argentina's struggle to establish a credible monetary system under populist pressures and the recurrent use of exchange rate stabilization plans. It focuses on two episodes where there was "too little money" in the economy: during the hyperinflation... View Details
Keywords: Debt Crisis; Hyperinflation; Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Argentina
Di Tella, Rafael. "A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946–2002." Harvard Business School Case 715-019, October 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
- June 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Teaching Note
Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings (TN)
By: Rawi E. Abdelal
- May 1974
- Article
On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates." Journal of Finance 29, no. 2 (May 1974): 449–470. (Chapter 12 in Continuous-Time Finance.)
- January 2006
- Article
Preliminary Evidence for Parasympathetic Influence on Basal Heart Rate in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
By: J. W. Hopper, J. Spinazzola, W. B. Simpson and B. A. van der Kolk
Hopper, J. W., J. Spinazzola, W. B. Simpson, and B. A. van der Kolk. "Preliminary Evidence for Parasympathetic Influence on Basal Heart Rate in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." Journal of Psychosomatic Research 60, no. 1 (January 2006): 83–90.
- 11 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Keywords: by Luis M. Viceira
- 16 Jul 2010
- News
Health Insurance Rate Wars - Are We Focused on the Right Fight?
- June 2016
- Article
Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds
Background: Routine annual influenza vaccinations are recommended for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is... View Details
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds. "Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics." Medical Care 54, no. 6 (June 2016): 578–583.
- 1971
- Working Paper
A Simple General Equilibrium Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
By: Jerry R. Green
- 1995
- Other Unpublished Work
State Poverty Rates Adjusted by Variations in Costs of Living Across States
By: Dutch Leonard and Monica E. Friar
Keywords: Wealth and Poverty
- February 1996 (Revised May 1996)
- Teaching Note
ARPPS: Adjustable Rate Perpetual Preferred Stock & MMP: Money Market Preferred Stock TN
By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee
Keywords: Stocks
The Future in Sound #9 - Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi: Limitations of ESG Ratings
In this episode, Siko shares his insights on the limitations of ESG ratings, how ESG trends are viewed by leaders in Africa, the kernels of wisdom he aims to share with his business students, and much more. View Details
- December 1970 (Revised May 1991)
- Supplement
Methods of Calculating Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return, Programmed Exercises
By: Howard Raiffa
Raiffa, Howard. "Methods of Calculating Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return, Programmed Exercises." Harvard Business School Supplement 171-261, December 1970. (Revised May 1991.)