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- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
ensure that buyers and sellers who don’t know each other trust that the transactions will be safe and of high quality? This is the fundamental role of online platforms: aggregating information that is useful for buyers and sellers who... View Details
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Foreign direct investment: statistics
your selections. If you would like to get aggregate data for a region, use the menu on the left-hand side. Under Series, search for foreign direct investment. Under Time, select year(s). Click on on of the download options in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
in 2011 “The best way to book bus tickets,” aggregating information on a half-million bus routes in 63 countries. Winner of the 2014 Alumni New Venture Competition’s Best Investment category, Busbud has debuted a product that allows third... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Consumer confidence
University of Michigan. Consumer Sentiment: Data aggregated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) from different sources. Use filters provided to locate data for different global regions and frequencies. View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
productivity and employment. There are few significant differences between industries with limited and high private equity activity. It is hard to find support for claims that economic activity in industries with private equity backing is more exposed to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
more than the statement presented in company documents; it's the actual aggregation of commitments and their relationship to the realized strategy of the firm. Operating level decisions can change the de facto strategy of the firm.... View Details
- Web
Neil Band | MBA
team building entity recognition pipelines or with the Natural Language Processing research team developing a sentiment analysis technique, our success depended on our business competence: aggregating massive, high-quality datasets.... View Details
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Anil Doshi
services. We collected individual performance data and found tremendous potential in providing beneficial services to our users that required the aggregation of that data. I became more interested in understanding how the disclosure,... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
disaggregated measures that are incrementally informative but costly to contract upon. In such a setting, when do firms contract on aggregated rather than disaggregated performance measures? We show that at intermediate levels of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 16, 2007
measurement of reduced form, aggregate sentiment and traces its effects to stock returns. It builds on the two broader and more irrefutable assumptions of behavioral finance—sentiment and the limits to arbitrage—to explain which stocks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
reflection. “One of the course goals is to help students develop self-knowledge and live with greater intentionality,” explains Francis, who journals regularly. “We created an app that prompts students to reflect daily and then aggregates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
City–based Redbrick with an economist partner in 2002. “Millions of individuals buy a unit or two to rent out as income producers,” Lee says. “But there existed no fund that went after single-family houses in some sort of aggregate way... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local plant managers in almost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Sustainability in Waste Management
management. What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 This report aggregates solid waste data at the national and urban level and predicts waste generation to 2030 and 2050. In addition to the waste... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
’08/MPA ’09). Both have been named HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellows for 2010 and awarded $25,000 grants to advance their enterprises. Brehm, along with his wife, Faith, is cofounder of the online venture AbilityTrip (www.abilitytrip.com), which View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
consult its resources monthly, and its aggregate data has spurred policymakers to consider disparities in the government’s procedures. In an analysis undertaken before the pandemic, Boundless found that the average processing time for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
returns of 0.86, whereas the popular factor-based expected return models have either an insignificant or a significantly negative association with future returns. In supplemental analyses, we show that these forecasts are also informative of the time-series variation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions about manufacturing and marketing. After each round of play, reports are generated that include balance... View Details