Measurement - Publications - Faculty & Research

Fourth Quarter 2007
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Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk

By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie

This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details

Keywords: Credit; Investment; Sovereign Finance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Valuation

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29 Aug 2022
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Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

April 2015
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Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments

By: Melissa Valentine, Ingrid M. Nembhard and Amy C. Edmondson

Background: Teamwork in health care settings is widely recognized as an important factor in providing high quality patient care. However, the behaviors that comprise effective teamwork, the organizational factors that support teamwork, and the relationship... View Details

Keywords: Teamwork; Psychometric Properties; Survey Instruments:; Measurement and Metrics; Surveys; Groups and Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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December 2009
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Estimation and Empirical Properties of a Firm-Year Measure of Accounting Conservatism

By: Mozaffar N. Khan and Ross L. Watts

We estimate a firm-year measure of accounting conservatism, examine its empirical properties as a metric, and illustrate applications by testing new hypotheses that shed further light on the nature and effects of conservatism. The results are consistent with the... View Details

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23 Sep 2017
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Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity at Scale

Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca

January 2020
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Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance

By: Ethan Rouen

I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large sample of firms, I find no statistically significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and... View Details

Keywords: Pay Disparity; Pay Ratio; CEO Pay Ratio; Income Inequality; Executive Compensation; Employees; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Business Ventures; Performance

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We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement... View Details

1985
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Measuring and Reporting the Financial Condition of Public Organizations

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Finance; Organizations

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22 Sep 2011
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Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments

Keywords: by Melissa A. Valentine, Ingrid M. Nembhard & Amy C. Edmondson; Health

2016
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Navigating Natural Monopolies: Market Strategy and Nonmarket Challenges in Radio and Television Audience Measurement Markets

By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao

This paper explores how firms within the audience measurement industry, specifically its radio and television markets, have navigated myriad market and nonmarket challenges. The market strategies and the nonmarket forces that constrain those strategies are largely... View Details

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Monopoly; Television Entertainment; Public Opinion; Geographic Scope; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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January 1998
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Tradeoffs within Costing Systems between Incentives and Measurement Objectives

By: M. Alles, S. Datar and M. Gupta

Keywords: System; Motivation and Incentives; Measurement and Metrics; Goals and Objectives

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October 1983
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Measuring Manufacturing Performance: A New Challenge for Management Accounting Research

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Problems and Challenges; Accounting; Research; Performance

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2025
Working Paper

Evaluations Amid Measurement Error: Determining the Optimal Timing for Workplace Interventions

By: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo, Iavor I. Bojinov and Fiammetta Menchetti

Researchers have embraced factorial experiments to simultaneously evaluate multiple treatments, each with different levels. Typically, in large-scale factorial experiments, the primary objective is identifying the treatment with the largest causal effect, especially... View Details

Keywords: Factorial Designs; Fisher Randomizations; Rank Estimators; Employer Interventions; Causal Inference; Mathematical Methods; Performance Improvement

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Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases Emerging Topics Emerging Topics Shared Value Measurement Shared Value & Investors Shared Value View Details

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

criteria, who will measure up to these two? What do you think? References: Roger Hallowell, Dual Competitive Advantage in Labor-Dependent Services, Thesis (D.B.A.), Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1997.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

2023
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The 2023 American Opportunity Index: Measuring Who Moves Ahead

By: Matthew Sigelman, Joseph B. Fuller, Nik Dawson, Alex Martin and Gad Levanon

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Personal Development and Career; Employment; Compensation and Benefits; United States

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Measuring Innovation: Evaluation in the Field of Social Entrepreneurship

By: Mark R. Kramer

Social Entrepreneurship has brought a new vision to the ﬁeld of philanthropy and, with it, a different perspective on evaluation. In fact, many familiar approaches to evaluation in philanthropy miss the key criteria that funders consider essential to success within the... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Evaluation

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