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    Paul Hamilton

    Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    International Capital Allocation, Sovereign Borrowing, and Growth

    By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
    The key in the investigation of "where" and "why" capital flows, relative to the neoclassical benchmark, is how we measure these flows. The macro literature has been using three main yardsticks: the current account balance, returns to capital, and the volume of net... View Details
    Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Performance Productivity; Capital; Economics
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    • 02 Mar 2020
    • HBS Seminar

    Drew Carton, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

    • 2010
    • Chapter

    When Does Leadership Matter? A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership

    By: Noam Wasserman, Nitin Nohria and Bharat Anand
    There is by now a long-standing debate on the impact that CEOs have on company performance. Studies of leadership describe how CEOs can significantly impact company performance, while the "constraints" perspective argues that leaders are sufficiently constrained by... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Leadership; Performance Improvement; Research; Opportunities
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    • October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
    • Case

    Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

    By: Francois Brochet
    This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Cost Management; Balance and Stability; Business Model; Design; Stocks; Crisis Management; Financial Markets; Consulting Industry; Europe
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    • 05 Feb 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Stereotypes and Belief Updating

    Keywords: by Katherine B. Coffman, Manuela Collis, and Leena Kulkarni
    • 21 Aug 2012
    • News

    Apple Reaches Record U.S. Market Value on IPhone Optimism

    • 20 Dec 2016
    • News

    The Obama Legacy: A Study In Dignity And Moderation

    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    An Empirical Study of Time Allotment and Delays in E-commerce Delivery

    By: M. Balakrishnan, MoonSoo Choi and Natalie Epstein
    Problem definition: We study how having more time allotted to deliver an order affects the speed of the delivery process. Furthermore, we seek to predict orders that are likely to be delayed early in the delivery process so that actions can be taken to avoid delays.... View Details
    Keywords: Logistics; E-commerce; Mathematical Methods; AI and Machine Learning; Performance Productivity
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      Randolph B. Cohen

      Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details

      Keywords: financial services; investment banking industry
      • 03 Oct 2014
      • News

      Is the Apple Watch the Next Huge, Medium, or Mini Hit?

      • 12 Oct 2021
      • News

      AI Can Bring More Equity To The Workplace And Consumer Markets By Implementing These Conditions

      • Article

      Towards Robust and Reliable Algorithmic Recourse

      By: Sohini Upadhyay, Shalmali Joshi and Himabindu Lakkaraju
      As predictive models are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes decision making (e.g., loan approvals), there has been growing interest in post-hoc techniques which provide recourse to affected individuals. These techniques generate recourses under the assumption... View Details
      Keywords: Machine Learning Models; Algorithmic Recourse; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction
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      • 2006
      • Working Paper

      The Effect of Dividends on Consumption

      By: Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel and Jeffrey Wurgler
      Classical models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity to consume from stock... View Details
      Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Personal Finance; Investment Return; Household
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      • 15 Mar 2022
      • News

      Digital Transformers Don’t Neglect The In-Person Experience, They Reimagine It

      • January 2021
      • Article

      A Model of Relative Thinking

      By: Benjamin Bushong, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein
      Fixed differences loom smaller when compared to large differences. We propose a model of relative thinking where a person weighs a given change along a consumption dimension by less when it is compared to bigger changes along that dimension. In deterministic settings,... View Details
      Keywords: Relative Thinking; Econometric Models; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking
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      • 2010
      • Article

      The Ethical Mirage: A Temporal Explanation as to Why We Are Not as Ethical as We Think We Are

      By: A. E. Tenbrunsel, K. Diekmann, K A. Wade-Benzoni and Max Bazerman
      This paper explores the biased perceptions that people hold of their own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of prediction, action and recollection is central to these misperceptions: People predict that they will behave more ethically than they actually... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Values and Beliefs; Framework; Research; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Prejudice and Bias
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      • December 2014
      • Case

      Groupon: A New CEO Takes Charge

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Arnold B. Peinado
      On August 7, 2013, Eric Lefkofsky, the chairman and largest shareholder of Groupon was named CEO, replacing founder Andrew Mason, who had run the company since its inception in 2009. When Groupon had its initial public offering (IPO) in November 2011, the company's... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Disruptive Technologies; Growth Strategy; Customer Relations; Service Management; International Business; Business Models; Strategy Execution; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; United States
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      • March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
      • Case

      State Bank of India: Transforming a State Owned Giant

      By: Rajiv Lal and Rachna Tahilyani
      February 2011: O.P. Bhatt reflected contentedly on his five-year term as Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest commercial bank. He had led SBI on a journey of transformation from an old, hierarchical, transaction oriented, government bank to a modern,... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Customer Relationship Management; Commercial Banking; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Banking Industry; India
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      • October 2007
      • Journal Article

      Psychosocial Development and Leader Performance of Military Officer Cadets

      By: Scott Snook and Paul T. Bartone
      Efforts to educate and develop future military officers aim to produce highly competent, ethical and effective leaders to serve the nation. But while there is general agreement about desired outcomes, the underlying developmental processes associated with these... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Leadership Development; Performance Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Social Psychology
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