by Michael Wheeler - Publications - Faculty & Research

Researchers are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) algorithms to investigate causal heterogeneity in randomized experiments. Despite their promise, ML algorithms may fail to accurately ascertain heterogeneous treatment effects under practical settings with... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods

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May 2019
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Did You Decide to Proceed by Targeting Three or Six New Products?

By: Michael W. Toffel

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01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business

In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details

Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

23 Sep 2017
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Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity at Scale

Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca

25 Aug 2010
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Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers

Keywords: by Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health

18 Sep 2008
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The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis

Keywords: by Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael & Alvin J. Silk; Advertising

13 Nov 2019
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Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

Keywords: by Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel, and Kala Viswanathan

11 Apr 2023
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A Rose by Any Other Name: Supply Chains and Carbon Emissions in the Flower Industry

01 Jun 2003
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Respond to a Worthy Cause

national and international artists, expand the marketing efforts, and make a bigger impact in the battle against domestic violence.” Brown and Dietz signed on, and HBS faculty members Michael Watkins and Max Bazerman agreed to be their... View Details

Keywords: Michael Watkins; Arts, Entertainment

17 Nov 2015
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Carbon Neutral

Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth and cost jobs. A compromise once pushed View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

23 Sep 2009
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Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting

Keywords: by Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health

01 Sep 2013
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A Hollywood Backstory

Armbruster Photo courtesy of Michael Armbruster While Hollywood is more than capable of glorifying the cardinal sins, it's also adroit at depicting our shortcomings as human beings. Good protagonists in stories (and in life) think,... View Details

Keywords: Armbruster, Michael; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization

Self-Regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature

When $3+$1 > $4: The Effect of Gift Salience on Employee Effort in an Online Labor Market

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

Rethinking Decision Making, book review of The Art of Choosing, by Sheena Iyengar, and Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making, by Gary Klein

Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers Prefer Firms with Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios

Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior

Statistical Inference for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Discovered by Generic Machine Learning in Randomized Experiments