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  • 02 Jul 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

Kay puts it, "The mistake is to make inferences about the relationships between outcomes and processes when we cannot observe and do not understand the processes themselves." The argument is that those things that contribute to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

Subsequently, it needs information on how well the strategy is being implemented and what results the strategy is delivering. Directors cannot infer from quarterly financial statements whether the company has selected a sensible customer... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 05 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

rarely featured in business research, but they were the ideal study subject for MacKay and Remer. “One reason for using retail gasoline was that if we can show that consumer inertia is important for a relatively simple product like retail gasoline, then you can View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Where Conservation Means Business

value of the Historical Collections is immense,” says Nicholas. “Original materials constitute ‘hard evidence.’ They help students to appreciate the significance of historical context, and they provide a mechanism through which they can make more robust View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
  • 24 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 24

conjunction with ICCs to make more robust inferences about expected returns. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1967706 The Challenges and Enhancing Opportunities of Global Project Management: Evidence from Chinese and Dutch... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

recent years. Says Kominers, “It’s always nice when your research checks out with the view outside your window.” Research into action While their study didn’t necessarily look at the causes of development, Kominers says it’s a fair View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

press) Abstract In contrast to using controlled laboratory experiments, which offer a clear method for inferring cause-effect relationships, I will be using data from three personal stories to provide opinion and analysis. I will tell the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 7

indicated which topics were being searched and created content accordingly. Demand treated its 5,000 online articles published per day as an investment, not a cost, a reversal of the traditional media model. In addition to being able to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

whatever information they have about consumers’ price knowledge, drawing inferences from gender if that is all they have to go on, but disregarding gender if provided more direct information on consumers’ price expectations,” the... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

retailers might be one of the factors behind the recent TFP slowdown experienced by the industry in the U.K. Negotiation Analysis: From Games to Inferences to Decisions to Deals Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 25,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

employees to form personal relationships with founders outside of work. Late night beers or weekend family barbecues may have become routine. With a larger team, consider how these special out-of-work connections reflect on your leadership. Optically, it can View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions By: Lockwood, Benjamin, and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract—We use official data and standard optimal tax conditions to infer the positive and normative judgments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

information about inventors' immigration status or ethnicities, they do contain the inventors' names. By utilizing name-matching software, the researchers could infer the ethnicity of inventors at any given firm. An inventor named Chang... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

consumer's expected welfare. One way to think of this is to ask whether a better-informed consumer would move in the directions suggested by prescriptive models. Generally, I predict that as a consumer received more information, they would behave more compatibly with... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 10 Nov 2008
  • Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

at scale. In social media, that is very difficult to do. It's very hard to know what people care about with respect to buying things, because you are inferring intent, you're not taking intent directly from the consumer," said... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

chooses to found a nonprofit instead of a firm, because this is more likely to lead to success, what can be inferred about the state of the software market? Organizational theorists argue that nonprofit foundations are created to protect... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 15 May 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

deeper survey about their careers. Why was it that there were relatively few of these women in the very high income brackets, and many, many more in the lower income brackets? What was going on in their lives? I found out, of course—and you could View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous search not only for confirming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

(forthcoming) Abstract Abarbanell and Lehavy (2006) examine the effect of distributional properties of earnings and forecast data used by researchers who investigate 'Street' earnings. They perform a large number of analyses, and emphasize that care must be taken in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

Data Practices Data Tips & Toolkits 38ms 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