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- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
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
- Research & Ideas
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
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
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
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
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
- Web
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
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
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 Yang, Gordon Burtch, and Gediminas Adomavicius. Antonio Moreno... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
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
- 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
- Research Summary
Overview
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
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
- 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
- Web
Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
Data Practices Data Tips & Toolkits 13ms 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
- News
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
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care. “Disruption has been one of the... View Details
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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
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
bankrupt. Consequently many of the plaintiffs turned their attention to Walmart and sued the retailer as a causal agent in the deaths and injuries. Given that more than one party was involved in Walmart's sale of unsafe gas cans, who is... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
e-commerce initiatives, the payoffs of e-commerce investments must be calculated and integrated into management decision-making systems. Developing Appropriate Metrics To closely monitor the cause and effect relationships evidenced in the e-commerce View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
first-order importance. The second part is whether I have a clever way of studying it. Can I design an experiment to isolate exactly what I think the causal mechanism is? It’s not just that A happens and then B happens, but can I actually... View Details