Causality - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

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

21 Sep 2016
Blog Post

How HBS Changed My Life

Professor Clayton Christensen on how disruptive innovation is the causal mechanism behind growth and prosperity of nations. Without HBS, I would not have been able to develop the voice to speak at an event alongside fellow HBS alumnus and... 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

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

to identify with much greater precision the causal link between management and performance. "We want to get at the causality between management and performance," she says. "And to do that, you... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11

well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal question using a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2011
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Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda." Other research agenda topics identified by Friedman and Jones included... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

10 Mar 2021
News

Shattering Glass

much we can ask individual women to do while systemic barriers still exist. We need to make institutional and cultural changes. Have we moved beyond the need to make the business case for creating more diverse workplaces? CA: The narrow focus on trying to establish a... View Details

Keywords: April White; gender equity; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

20 Mar 2019
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Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

Asia and South America), gender diversity has little or even negative correlation with firm performance. Granted, we cannot make a causal claim because we do not have an identification strategy, but this study gives us strong preliminary... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

the course is to learn to use well-researched causal theories about strategy, innovation, and management to understand why things happen the way they do in businesses, and to predict which tools, strategies, and methods will and will not... 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

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services

02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

Michael C. Jensen, and Steve Zaffron Abstract We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. Our model reveals the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Heskett's readers. What do YOU think? 8. The Business of Life Published: June 4, 2012 Scholarly economic theory applies to more than just business. The same causal mechanisms that drive big corporations to success can be just as effective... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared to traditional causal inference methods, ML methods make far fewer a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog

your odds of achieving successful outcomes. Educational Objectives The focus of the course is to learn to use well-researched causal theories about strategy, innovation, and management to understand why things happen the way they do in... View Details

05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

methods to further demonstrate causality and to consider the effects of potential moderators. These findings have implications for decisions related to product pricing, placement and assortment, store layout, and the choice of strategies... View Details