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- 11 AM – 12 PM EST, 25 Jan 2018
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Becoming Effective Change Makers: The Power of Networks
Instituting change in an organization or in a sector of society has always been the bane of leaders. However, some leaders do succeed--often spectacularly--at transforming their organizations and even whole sectors of society. What makes some change makers triumph in a... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
John, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “They assume the Bachelor can only like one type of woman.” “When you like one lake, people infer that you hate cities” It turns... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
subjects playing this game. We call this latter quantity the model's Equivalent Number of Observations (ENO), and explore its properties. Paper not available The Implicit Effect of Artifact-Driven Inferences on Perceived Procedural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
oil-rich state, for example, the financial impact (positive or negative) of a bill affecting the state's petroleum producers and related companies could be inferred by following the votes of the state's lawmakers. The politicians, after... View Details
- Web
Workshops & Technical Talks - Research Computing Services
data Tesseract for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Workshop Recording (RCS) Principls of Causal Inference Workshop Slides (RCS) Databases and SQL Workshops and Tutorials Working with SQL setup instructions (DB Browser for SQLite),... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
Ioannis Evangelidis of Bocconi University. “In this case, Trump’s extreme feature was his immigration policy, and many inferred that Trump voters were therefore disproportionately motivated by immigration.” The problem is, these... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Student-Profile
Mengjie "Magie" Cheng
combine causal inference and machine learning with some economics techniques and some other state-of-the-art techniques. This is why I felt the marketing program at HBS was a very good fit for me.” In addition to being able to structure... View Details
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
Data Practices Data Tips & Toolkits 44ms Causal Inference R Packages causalTree, CausalImpact, Counterfactual, BayesTree, rrd, FindIt, causaldrf, uplift, Synth, matchIt, pcalg, wfe, matching, med ex, BCEE, dagitty, causale ect, mediation,... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
only vaguely aware of, the larger world. Today in the United States, I see the opposite happening, a closing-off of the world, in this the most media-intensive society in the world. If by “globalization,” we infer engagement with the rest... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
restatements can represent an absence of errors, it can also indicate a lack of detection and disclosure of errors and irregularities. We infer the magnitude of detection and disclosure by associating the frequency of restatements with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
responsibilities or job termination, will call for board withdrawal as well. These are all important considerations that should be left to a responsible board to evaluate on a case-by-case basis - without being bound by the inference of... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- Student-Profile
Ta-Wei "David" Huang
management and using causal inference / machine learning tools to solve marketing problems.” It was this motivation that led him to pursue a Ph.D. Initially, David’s familiarity with HBS was limited to the MBA program but he quickly... View Details
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
downturn in returns are more likely to infer that prices would continue to go up. We thought the experimental work was interesting, but wanted to know whether those results had anything to do with real-world financial markets. Our main... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
accomplished professors who dressed on the casual side more than students and other less-published attendees. They also noticed over the years that people tended to dress less formally at academic gatherings as they gained more status. "We wanted to know, when do we... View Details
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
recommendation systems to suggest to each individual user products or content which might interest him/her, as inferred from their past behavior or the behavior of users with similar profiles. How much should you trust those... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
measurement errors. I document the first direct empirical evidence that ICC measurement errors can be persistent, can be associated with firms' risk or growth characteristics, and thus confound regression inferences on expected returns. I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2015
- Blog Post
Using an MBA to Reimagine the Music Industry
a coherent opinion about it. Being the one to extract the most important inferences from a data set can empower an entire team to perform better and faster! What has been the toughest thing about being at HBS? The toughest adjustment for... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Causal Inference in Accounting Research By: Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss Abstract—This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers use to draw causal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
values can we infer from President Trump’s new tax plan? In the past few weeks, a number of commentaries have excoriated or celebrated the plan, but most have relied on conventional wisdom such as “Republicans care only for the rich.” If... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
including some of our prior work, has shown that students display a number of systematic biases in the college application process, so it could be the case that students are inferring too much about a school after a scandal. Students... View Details