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  • 2014
  • Teaching Note

Fine Harvest Restaurant Group

By: Clara X. Chen, Kenneth A. Merchant, Tatiana Sandino and Wim Van der Stede
The Fine Harvest Restaurant Group cases A and B examine a company's design of a new system to evaluate the performance (and determine the bonuses) for its restaurant managers. Fine Harvest had traditionally evaluated restaurant managers based on store margins and had... View Details
Keywords: Incentive Systems; Relative Performance Evaluation; Restaurant Industry; Accounting; Economics; Human Resources; Measurement and Metrics; Labor; Performance; Salesforce Management; Retail Industry; North and Central America
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  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

The political bent of the neighborhood where they grew up—and especially where they spent their teen years. Beyond just parental influence, environmental factors such as friends, teachers, and media environment play a statistically... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • Web

Hire Talent

Hire Talent Hire Talent Work With Us to Meet Your Hiring Goals Discover HBS talent, engage and recruit current students and alumni, view employment statistics and gain recruiting insights and advice. Post Jobs and Access Resumes Promote... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55749 forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

    Switchback experiments, where a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to random treatments, are among the most prevalent designs used in the technology sector, with applications ranging from ride-hailing platforms to online marketplaces. Although... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Design-Based Inference for Multi-arm Bandits

    By: Dae Woong Ham, Iavor I. Bojinov, Michael Lindon and Martin Tingley
    Multi-arm bandits are gaining popularity as they enable real-world sequential decision-making across application areas, including clinical trials, recommender systems, and online decision-making. Consequently, there is an increased desire to use the available... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    An Experimental Design for Anytime-Valid Causal Inference on Multi-Armed Bandits

    By: Biyonka Liang and Iavor I. Bojinov
    Typically, multi-armed bandit (MAB) experiments are analyzed at the end of the study and thus require the analyst to specify a fixed sample size in advance. However, in many online learning applications, it is advantageous to continuously produce inference on the... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods
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    • June 2020
    • Article

    Real-time Data from Mobile Platforms to Evaluate Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure

    By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Kevin Alvarez, Arielle Dror, Emerson Wenzel, Catharina Hollauer and Sooji Ha
    By displacing gasoline and diesel fuels, electric cars and fleets reduce emissions from the transportation sector, thus offering important public health benefits. However, public confidence in the reliability of charging infrastructure remains a fundamental barrier to... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Infrastructure; Behavior; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers
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    • October 1, 2021
    • Article

    An Evaluation of Cross-efficiency Methods: With an Application to Warehouse Performance.

    By: B.M. Balk, M.R. De Koster, Christian Kaps and J.L. Zofio
    Cross-efficiency measurement is an extension of Data Envelopment Analysis that allows for tie-breaking ranking of the Decision Making Units (DMUs) using all the peer evaluations. In this article we examine the theory of cross-efficiency measurement by comparing a... View Details
    Keywords: Efficiency Analysis; Performance Benchmarking; Warehousing; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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    • September 16, 2022
    • Article

    A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties

    By: Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor I. Bojinov, Erik Brynjolfsson and Sinan Aral
    The authors analyzed data from multiple large-scale randomized experiments on LinkedIn’s People You May Know algorithm, which recommends new connections to LinkedIn members, to test the extent to which weak ties increased job mobility in the world’s largest... View Details
    Keywords: Job Mobility; Social Networks; Social Ties; Networks; Personal Development and Career
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    • September 1990
    • Article

    Competition on Many Fronts: A Stackelberg Signaling Equilibrium

    By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
    An economic agent, the incumbent, is operating in many environments at the same time. These may be locations, markets, or specific activities. He is informed of the particular conditions relevant to each situation. His action in each case is observable by another... View Details
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    • 28 Oct 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

    Keywords: by Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias & Nikolaos Trichakis; Health
    • 2023
    • Article

    MoPe: Model Perturbation-based Privacy Attacks on Language Models

    By: Marvin Li, Jason Wang, Jeffrey Wang and Seth Neel
    Recent work has shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) can unintentionally leak sensitive information present in their training data. In this paper, we present Model Perturbations (MoPe), a new method to identify with high confidence if a given text is in the training... View Details
    Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning; Cybersecurity
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    • 2013
    • Book

    Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters

    By: Walter A. Friedman
    The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting And Prediction; Economic History; Economics; History; Risk and Uncertainty; United States
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    • Web

    Class Profile - Doctoral

    Undergraduate Majors* Accounting Applied Mathematics Biology Business Computer Science Decision Sciences Economics Engineering Finance Government History Information Systems Law Mathematics Operations Philosophy Physics Psychology Sociology View Details
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Book

    Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

    according to one statistic stating that friendship accounts for about 60 percent of the difference in happiness between people. COVID-19 made socializing harder, layered on top of existing anxiety and disconnection about how to relate in... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 13 Jan 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

    of such interviews can be used to design more comprehensive surveys. And properly designed surveys, when subjected to careful statistical analyses, can yield further insights into unconscious consumer thinking. Q: At what point in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
    • Research Summary

    Do Appearances Matter? The Impact of EPS Accretion and Dilution on Stock Prices

    There is a widespread concern among practitioners and corporate managers that transactions which result in changes in future earnings-per-share (EPS) have real effects on stock prices, irrespective of whether these changes reflect differences in future cash flows.  As... View Details
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

    By: Eric D. Werker
    This extended memorandum identifies episodes of sustained double-digit growth in real GDP, defined as a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent or more over a period of 8 years or longer. Using a measure of real GDP reported in the World Development Indicators, we... View Details
    Keywords: Growth; Liberia
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Cross-Border Reverse Mergers: Causes and Consequences

    By: Jordan Siegel and Yanbo Wang
    We study non-U.S. companies that have used reverse mergers as a means to adopt U.S. corporate law (and sometimes U.S. securities law as well). Early adopters of cross-border reverse mergers and those firms that hired a Big Four auditor exhibited superior corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Reverse Merger; Corporate Law; Corporate Governance; Nevada; United States
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