Aggregates - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand

brand. Aggregator platforms: To reduce your time burden and increase the impact of your efforts, Grinshpun suggests using aggregator tools, like Hootsuite, that help you distribute content across multiple... View Details

25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

shape when and how public agencies implement policies effectively on behalf of marginalized citizens. November 2014 Antitrust Law Journal Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over patent View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Aug 2014
Blog Post

Working in Tech 4Dev

enterprise-focused and still in beta mode, but Ushahidi’s greater mission of technology for development—“tech4dev”—is worth writing more about. The company uses cloud-based technologies—your smartphone, your computer, and even SMS, to quickly View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Jun 2015
News

Five-Star Research

data from Seattle restaurants, Luca found that a one-star increase in a Yelp rating increased an independent restaurant’s revenue by 5 to 9 percent. (Chain restaurants didn’t see the same effect.) Yelp uses the arithmetic mean of reviewer ratings to arrive at a... View Details

Keywords: April White; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2015
News

Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check

four of these teams are then aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are... View Details

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Richmond R. Jose, and Robert L. Winkler Abstract—Many organizations face critical decisions that rely on forecasts of binary events. In these situations, organizations often gather forecasts from multiple experts or models and average those forecasts to produce a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Sustainability in the Transportation Industry

renew the California Transportation Plan (CTP), updating its models and policy considerations to reflect industry changes every five years. This document is envisioned as a reference for modelers and decision makers. It aggregates current... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

private-label manufacturing of quality products. “Up to now, we haven’t been able to service the small customers, such as country clubs, in a cost-effective way,” says Fung. But with the Internet, the company can provide “limited customization,” View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

16 Aug 2011
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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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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

the base of the pyramid encompasses 5.0 of the 7.5 billion people in the world. In most nations, it accounts for the largest aggregate expenditure of the economy, yet continues to be significantly underserved. This makes possible... View Details

11 Jan 2019
News

Case Study: Beating Bias

in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen-Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and right, with analysis that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2020
News

Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness

community, city, our country, than the pain of outsiders,” he says. We can increase our aggregate good in the world by redirecting our intentions to support people farther afield who are struggling with basic human needs. Max Bazerman is... 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

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

27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Student-Profile

Anastassia Fedyk

previous stories and aggregate news that combine information from several sources. Business Economics Program After a few years doing research at Goldman Sachs, I found that my interests spanned a broad set of topics: asset pricing,... View Details

21 Apr 2015
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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

15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

the firm than in its absence. An Exploration of Technology Diffusion Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a model that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector... View Details