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14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

Assessing an organization's impact on a large-scale societal issue such as poverty is a complex and costly effort. In the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, for example, an organization like Oxfam America could be expected to provide data... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

2023
Article

Building the Business Case for an Inclusive Approach to Digital Health Measurement with a Web App (Market Opportunity Calculator): Instrument Development Study

By: Mitchell Tang, Yashoda Sharma, Jennifer C. Goldsack and Ariel Dora Stern

Background: The use of digital health measurement tools has grown substantially in recent years. However, there are concerns that the promised benefits from these products will not be shared equitably. Underserved populations, such as those with lower education and... View Details

Keywords: Demographics; Product Development; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

melting ice cube and assets in bankruptcy that are losing value really quickly." Because the data includes judges’ names on individual filings, Antill was able to determine how specific jurists ruled. He focused on companies that sought... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

commercial and trade activity and agreements, with mountains of up-to-the-minute data available to firms and governments for making sophisticated projections, why do industries and countries continue to overproduce and create such... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2024
News

On the Radar

must be determined if the biothreat is natural, accidental, or intentional. McKnight believes artificial intelligence can help answer these questions, thus speeding up the process of comparing a pathogen’s makeup to huge sets of available View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

tasks, including data entry. All participants completed day one of the study (receiving $35 for their trouble). They were given the choice of whether to return on the second day (in which case they'd receive an additional $15). As with... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

28 Apr 2015
Blog Post

3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School

engineer (Guy Kamguia MBA 2015), a biomedical engineer (Miranda Shaw MBA 2015), and a design engineer (Carol Rego MBA 2016) to get their thoughts on engineers pursuing an MBA. So, why do engineers thrive at business school? They’re number crunching whiz kids In... View Details

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

each startup, that success wouldn’t become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Uncanny ability to pick winners Analyzing the data along with MIT VMS’s Roman Lubynsky, the researchers found that overall, in fact, the mentors had an uncanny ability... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

customer purchasing decisions based on layouts that change from store to store. “It’s around us now, and it’s growing.” "If something is very novel, there is little data around it to use." Thomke first explored the phenomenon in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

to the underlying belief structure. Kusin uses a broad range of analytic tools enhanced and supplemented by 20 years of data collection, polling, and anecdotes from the highest level of access to deconstruct what actually exists. The... View Details

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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

February 2020 (Revised April 2021)
Case

StockX: The Stock Market of Things

By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details

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24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

technologies to help companies increase employee happiness. Hitachi had begun manufacturing high-tech badges that quantify a wearer’s activity patterns. Data from these devices revealed an unusually high correlation between certain... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows - Research Computing Services

appropriate to the server. */ /* Data placed in the temporary work space reside in the remote library and will be */ /* lost after the endrsubmit statement. */ rsubmit; libname crsp '/wrds/crsp/sasdata'; proc means data=crsp.dport1; run;... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

when. With facial recognition and infrared cameras, there can be time series data collected from your temperature and probably what was in the breaths you exhaled, captured over weeks and years, as you enter vestibules and ride... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

them white, came out to support him. Why did Donald Trump’s candidacy appeal to so many women voters? Although his election has been attributed primarily to disenfranchised citizens, the data suggest otherwise. Women from varying... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

textiles that could bypass the toxic chemical dying and unsustainable materials sourcing of todays textiles industry. SpaceSense: A platform designed to help geospatial data scientists and developers build AI solutions faster, easier and... View Details

Profile

Madison McIlwain

(LCA) professor wrote the original cases on Enron before the company had been convicted of fraud. As he looked back at the work he did, he reflected on the power of combining data with instinct to trust your own intelligence and pattern... View Details

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

This chapter proposes a new lens to understand corruption, using internal records collected from firms that pay bribes. We examine widespread corruption in three industries in an Asian developing country: procurement, pharmaceutical sales, and construction. Using View Details