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05 Aug 2024
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Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

What really fuels a boom-and-bust cycle in the modern global economy? It’s not always household debt, says a new paper that parses in-depth data across 115 countries. Instead, rising corporate debt may flash the clearest warning that a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details

Keywords: April White

July 2023
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So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By: Ravi Bapna, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad and Akhmed Umyarov

With one-third of marriages in the United States beginning online, online dating platforms have become important curators of the modern social fabric. Prior work on online dating has elicited two critical frictions in the heterosexual dating market. Women, governed by... View Details

Keywords: Online Dating; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Gender; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks

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Global Industry Bubble Watch - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Data Global Industry Bubble Watch Download Data Set in Excel View Sector: Consumer Discretionary Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Energy Financials Healthcare Industrials Information Technology... View Details

05 Feb 2021
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Why Is It So Hard to Become a Data-Driven Company?

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Research in Action - Alumni

explains his action research, which aims to lower the cost of health care and engaging with practitioners. Using Data to Explore Uncharted Territories Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun explains how she uses View Details

28 Jun 2017
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Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

are the largest employer of minimum wage workers but also because they have a fairly high turnover rate—about 5 percent of restaurants go out of business each year. Using data obtained from Yelp, the researchers looked at reviews of about... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

models, and innovate funding methods. The Four Workstreams The KPMA identified four key areas that needed to be addressed: engaging patients, using data and analytics effectively, designing successful clinical trials, and developing sound... View Details

25 Aug 2021
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

challenge. In 2012, she launched the Intrinsic Schools, a network of public charter schools with an innovative approach to the middle school and high school experience. Rather than employ the data from standardized tests and apply it to a... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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Forward Thinking

You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Illustrations by Richard Borge; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Water: reserves and usage

Where can I find data on water reserves and usage by country? World Water Development Report United Nations): provides a comprehensive review of the world’s freshwater resources. From 2003 till 2012, the WWDR was produced... View Details

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Company demographics by size and state

Where can I find statistics on US businesses by size and state? The Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy Data on Small Businesses curates a list of sources for View Details

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Tips for Working Remotely | Information Technology

public Wi-Fi hotspots, data is being sent “in the clear” and can be snooped upon. Avoid accessing sensitive information on public Wi-Fi. Leverage the HBS VPN to protect yourself when using public Wi-Fi. Additionally, never leave your... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Greece

"Country" tab at the top of the screen At next screen, type country name Use tabs at the top to select desired information, i.e., Overview, Industries, Statistics and Forecasts, News or Reports Country information and data World... View Details

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How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting

assess their progress to date. What does the staff compositional data look like when broken out by race, ethnicity, gender, and other personal and cultural identifiers? “Think about the groups you wish to incorporate in your data,... View Details

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

May 2016 Journal of Accounting Research Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research By: Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—In the published proceedings of the rst Journal... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Alternatives to Bloomberg

What databases can I use that have much of the same data and functionality as the Bloomberg terminal? When data download limits on the Bloomberg terminals have been reached and/or to... View Details

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

value is created and captured in the economy One critical change: You have your direct labor, and also your indirect labor through the data generated by your work. The value of labor shifts from renting embodied expertise to selling... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count

Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Affordable housing resources

information. They can be excellent sources for facts, statistics, reports, and can be a place to locate contacts to speak with about your research interest. Many trade associations include data on their Web pages and in their... View Details

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