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- 2015
- Working Paper
Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud
By: Michael Luca and Georgios Zervas
Consumer reviews are now part of everyday decision-making. Yet, the credibility of these reviews is fundamentally undermined when businesses commit review fraud, creating fake reviews for themselves or their competitors. We investigate the economic incentives to commit... View Details
Keywords: Information; Competition; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Luca, Michael, and Georgios Zervas. "Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud." Working Paper. (May 2015. Revise and resubmit, Management Science.)
- April 2007 (Revised October 2007)
- Background Note
An Overview of Project Finance & Infrastructure Finance - 2006 Update
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance, and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2002 to 2006. Examples of project-financed investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon... View Details
Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "An Overview of Project Finance & Infrastructure Finance - 2006 Update." Harvard Business School Background Note 207-107, April 2007. (Revised October 2007.)
- January 2009
- Article
Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services
By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Improvement; Projects; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Information Technology Industry; India
Huckman, Robert S., Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton. "Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services." Management Science 55, no. 1 (January 2009): 85–100.
Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates
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Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details
- 02–03 Dec 2022
- HBS Alumni Events
D^3 Catalyst: No Code Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Do you want to delve into Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, but you feel overwhelmed and intimidated? Do you want to leverage the power of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence without writing any code? Do you want to leverage Machine Learning and... View Details
- Web
Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid - Research Computing Services
Press u and enter your username to view only your processes. (Optional) Press 1 (the number one) to see the utilization of each cpu core or hyperthread. Press q or ctrl-c to stop monitoring. Monitoring execution via bjobs output This is less precise as LSF (the... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
during the pandemic in each of the 51 countries from a variety of sources, including reports in the New York Times and the European Commission’s database, Eurostat. They compared that data to figures from the same months for the past... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
rather than misdeeds and malfeasance.— Lynn S. Paine Moreover, new issues are constantly coming to the fore as a result of changes in technology, society, and politics. For instance, data privacy was not a major issue until the late 1980s... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
the data collected, including demographic information, is protected and confidential; and there is no human interaction, as analysis is done using algorithms and artificial intelligence. To date, Perlow and her team have collected... View Details
- Web
Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
maintenance managers to freight and purchasing agents. Accounting operations were centralized through a company treasurer, and daily accounting figures were fed into weekly, monthly, and annual reports. The deepening granularity of data... View Details
- Web
Why HBS? - Doctoral
research interests, including field studies, large-scale statistical analysis, consumer panel research, behavioral experiments and theoretical and empirical modelling. Support is available for methodological and statistical consultation, View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
Bridgitt Evans Executive Director, Harvard Innovation Labs NURTURING BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS From Big Pharma to Startup Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan Bridging the ESG Data Gap View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
it and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long-term. The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining quantitative View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
of intuition. Organizations that preclude intuition from their decision-making will never be, or cease to be, transformative." Others had a more expansive view of the role of judgment. As Donald Shaw put it, "Just because we have the technology to record... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
the voices, actions, and experiences of individuals who played a role in precipitating a crisis, those who suffered its ill effects, and those who seized an opportunity to profit from it. Historical material can also yield quantitative View Details
- 30 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving
- 21 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from Customers in Outsourcing: Individual and Organizational Effects
- Research Summary
The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity
By: Laura Alfaro
We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'... View Details
- August, 2022
- Article
Billing and Insurance-Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis
By: Barak D. Richman, Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek Shah, Igna Bonfrer, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Will Mitchell, Daniel Cehic, Garry Crispin and Kevin A. Schulman
Billing and insurance-related costs are a significant source of wasteful health care spending in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations, but these administrative burdens vary across national systems. We executed a microlevel accounting of these... View Details
Richman, Barak D., Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek Shah, Igna Bonfrer, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Will Mitchell, Daniel Cehic, Garry Crispin, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Billing and Insurance-Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis." Health Affairs 41, no. 8 (August, 2022): 1098–1106.