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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Amir Kermani & Kaveh Majlesi JULY 2020 What is the causal impact of changes in stock market wealth on households’ consumption? Using Swedish data on households’ stock holdings, the authors find that unrealized capital gains lead to a... View Details

17 Sep 2012
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Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

To The Lab With that supporting data in hand, the team decided to test the weather/productivity connection in the controlled setting of a research lab. The goal was to establish causality for the correlative findings. "I love when you... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

2024
Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song

Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry

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31 Aug 2020
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Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

causal relationship between diversity and profitability, then management can safely argue that managing for diversity is a way to increase shareholder value. If, however, the relationship is negative, then management cannot morally go out... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2011
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What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

should for the moment be interpreted as suggestive correlations rather than firm causality statements. Even so, encouraged by the results of the initial study, the group is planning to continue along this line of research by expanding the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Jun 2010
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The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

multiple actors and causal mechanisms that are still poorly understood. In such cases, it can still be useful to try to measure what an organization is doing and whether its strategies are working to influence societal change. But there's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2023
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The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

investment driven by peer-reviewed science, a diversity of lived experiences, and a culture of innovation. Particular attention will be focused on elucidating causal mechanisms that explain how early experiences and exposures are built... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

. Edward McFowland III : Runner Up for the 2018 Best Paper Award at the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science for "Using Data-Mined Variables in Causal Inference Tasks: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem" with Mochen... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

strategy, whether or not it could be improved or remains feasible. One concern relates back to the empirical evidence presented at the outset, which indicated that the link between exports and prosperity is less robust and the causal... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

26 Oct 2015
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What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

basketball, culling a US Department of Education database for individual schools’ reported revenue by sport, which provided, through econometric modeling, a causal link between athletic success and revenue. A Multimillion-Dollar Industry... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

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By: Ashley V. Whillans

Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details

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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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

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

more from China. If you have a lot of board members who are Vietnamese, you trade a lot with Vietnam." Correlation Versus Causation The team knew, though, that the correlative data did not necessarily prove the causal impact of ethnic... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

Data Practices Data Tips & Toolkits 3ms Causal Inference R Packages causalTree, CausalImpact, Counterfactual, BayesTree, rrd, FindIt, causaldrf, uplift, Synth, matchIt, pcalg, wfe, matching, med ex, BCEE, dagitty, View Details

02 Jun 2019
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A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

time, some type of gun-purchase waiting-period law. To understand the causal effect of waiting periods, the team exploited the significant geographic and temporal variations in the implementation of waiting periods. The researchers tested... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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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

02 Feb 2016
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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 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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