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  • Student-Profile

Hummy Song

interesting, and relevant ideas is much easier when you aren’t just running regressions by yourself in your office. Part of what makes a program like this amazing is the brilliant minds of your faculty and colleagues, so make the most of... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

overhead often causes support function employees to go on the defensive, attempting to prove their worth by becoming corporate bureaucrats who enforce sometimes meaningless rules in an attempt to affect the bottom line. This unfortunately leads them to View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

My Real Career

I often just throw out the option of performing a regression analysis on complex PTA decisions just to shut up the opposition. But for the most part, HBS taught me to think for myself, a very handy skill when debating with my six-year-old... View Details
Keywords: Liesl Pike Moldow; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

San Juan? — "the notion is that there is a kind of (universal) success profile," Deshpandé told colleagues at HBS. Using regression analysis, the work concludes that Asian companies that tend to perform better look very similar,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

their collective interest levels to implement a regression discontinuity approach. We confirm the positive effects for venture operations, with qualitative support for a higher likelihood of successful exits. On the other hand, there is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

dependent variables, and regression to the mean, results show that mandatory nonfinancial performance information measurement and peer disclosure improves overall performance (information effect) with larger improvements for poorly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 15, 2006

these hypotheses using network analysis and a simple multivariate regression that explains bank connections. I use comparable business directories to create databases with names of directors and financial information for all major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

between 1995 and 2007. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to determine the relative impact of key factors on operative time. Explanatory learning curve models were generated, and complication data were analyzed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210026-PDF-ENG Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Ariel Andres BlumenkrancHarvard Business School Note 111-001 This note presents a simple way to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 9

seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of non-governmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and minority rights. In France, where a similar coalition did not emerge, consumer credit continued to be perceived as economically View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

probabilistic record linkage model that allows for missing data and the inclusion of auxiliary information: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fastLink/index.html . Machine Learning R Caret package, short for “Classification and View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

generous welfare state. It emerged instead from evolving coalitions between fledgling consumer lenders seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of nongovernmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and minority rights. In France,... View Details
Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

decisions and actions by the partners. And regression and exit are always possible. The Collaboration Continuum is particularly useful in mapping the type of relationships a business or a nonprofit has in terms of the stages. Generally,... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models (RCMs) may generate new insights about firm heterogeneity and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

transactions. The analyst used the Cox regression model—an approach originally used to determine which patients would die and which would live over certain time periods-of "survival analysis." The analysis discovered that the... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do not support the hypotheses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

investments. Using both calendar-time portfolio stock return regressions and firm-level panel regressions we find that firms with good ratings on material sustainability issues significantly outperform firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman