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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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  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

acquiesced to these questionable transactions. Enron's sophisticated risk analysis and control system also experienced serious breakdowns. These breakdowns, along with management's increasing aversion to truth telling, isolated the board... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 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
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

& Law (forthcoming) Abstract The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Profiles - MBA

unprecedented scale of collaboration. Whether I was working on the Data Infrastructure production team building entity recognition pipelines or with the Natural Language Processing research team developing a sentiment analysis technique,... View Details

    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
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    Health Care - Faculty & Research

    Kumar, Kevin Schulman and Karen Staman Health care administration educators are at a crossroads: the health care sector is rife with inefficiencies, erratic quality, unequal access, and sky-high costs, complex problems which call for innovative solutions, and yet,... View Details
    • 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
    • 14 Jun 2016
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    June 14, 2016

    which analysis of the numbers, facts, and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test not only managers’ skills but also their humanity. This book presents a five-question framework—based on the long humanist tradition of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    The Exchange: Help Wanted

    work well, the best way to capture it would be to observe the same person managing different teams and evaluate whether the team improves as this person arrives. It’s not science fiction; this kind of analysis can be done with the data... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 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
    • 06 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

    country’s nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. The researchers studied employee emails and attachments before and during a nine-week period using machine learning and textual analysis. They supplemented their email analysis with qualitative... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • Web

    Student Research - Doctoral

    Hidden Costs of Working Multiple Jobs: Implications for Spending Behavior and Wellbeing By: Paige Tsai and Ryan W. Buell Across three studies, combining survey data, transaction-level analysis from 90,548 customers of a nationwide retail... View Details
    • 17 Sep 2013
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    First Look: September 17

    impact people's feelings about their decisions. We compare post-choice satisfaction from choices made by mind wandering to reason based choices and randomly assigned outcomes. Participants chose a poster by mind wandering or... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Jun 2016
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    June 7, 2016

    spread, defined as the spread of local currency bonds over the synthetic local currency risk-free rate constructed using cross-currency swaps. We find that local currency credit spreads are positive and sizable. Compared with credit... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 May 2017
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    First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

    the adoption of assurance or specific guidelines, firms seek the qualitative properties of comparability and credibility. Instrumental variables analysis suggests that increases in sustainability disclosure... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
    • June 2022
    • Case

    Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU

    By: George Serafeim and Benjamin Maletta
    In the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union (the EU) had led the global fight against climate change with a wide array of policy measures. The EU’s primary approach to climate policy had been taxation via the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU... View Details
    Keywords: Regulation; Carbon Emissions; Trade; Sustainability; Decarbonization; Performance; Climate Change; Analysis; Strategy; Taxation; Policy; Environmental Regulation; Industry Structures; European Union
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    • 07 Oct 2014
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    First Look: October 7

    comparative advantages of intermediate versus final disclosure policies in fostering innovation. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2288746 October 2014 The Compass (Newsletter of the American Society of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2023
    • Article

    Association Between Regulatory Submission Characteristics and Recalls of Medical Devices Receiving 510(k) Clearance

    By: Alexander O. Everhart, Soumya Sen, Ariel D. Stern, Yi Zhu and Pinar Karaca-Mandic
    Importance: Most regulated medical devices enter the U.S. market via the 510(k) regulatory submission pathway, wherein manufacturers demonstrate that applicant devices are “substantially equivalent” to 1 or more “predicate” devices (legally marketed medical devices... View Details
    Keywords: Recalls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 28 Aug 2012
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    First Look: August 28

    the paper: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042673 Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors: Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Publication: Contemporary Accounting Research... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne