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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
the GFC, firms with higher leverage have Z-scores that are closer to the financial distress range. The data also corroborate two macro-related hypotheses: first, that leverage interacted with currency depreciation had a statistically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
sharing system recording employees’ creative work—a control system often used to promote local experimentation—on the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. While, on average, the mere introduction of the information sharing system did not... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and opportunity gaps between urban and... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
across the major assignee groups. In addition, it appears that patents assigned to individuals and associated with non-practicing entities (NPEs) cite less academic work than those assigned to non-NPE corporations. While not statistically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
note presents statistics on private equity exits and discusses important issues relating to the most common exit routes. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/private-equity-exits/an/213112-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
and responding to adverse drug reactions suggests that only government regulators are in a position to integrate case report and statistical analysis. Despite the appeal of fragmented post-market drug safety studies, centralization may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
2,000 users, homing in on passenger usage data between January and November in 2018. After a rider had been active for three weeks, the authors tracked how—and, more important, when—customers used the service. The researchers then ranked service use times and plugged... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
figures of COVID-19. These are simply statistical comparisons of a current readout compared to historic trends. The same techniques can be used to quantify healthy building performance and changes over time. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
Predictors badly mistake self-confidence for competence in data analysis. He argues for predictions: (1) expressed in terms of probabilities (as in Bayesian statistical methods and weather forecasts), (2) revisited and revised as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
the waiting time to enter the ED increased by 26 minutes. We do not find any indications of improved performance on clinical metrics, with no statistical change in the number of admissions to the hospital or readmissions to the ED within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
director labor market. For firms, around announcement of dissent, firms suffer an economically and statistically significant cumulative abnormal return of -0.97%. Although literature has suggested that dissent might be reflective of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
Statistics survey of job loss among workers with three or more years of tenure in 2013 through 2015, about 37 percent of lost jobs was due to plant closings or relocations, some portion of which represents jobs that left the country. But... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Review of Economics and Statistics The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data By: De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
best-known authority, TRUSTe, are more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. In contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
inequality. This result is robust to using regression and matching approaches, and to controlling for a host of potential confounders. Contrary to the effects of tax cuts, we find no effects of tax increases on income inequality at the state level. We then use data... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
insurance companies would worry that their commanding positions in many metropolitan statistical areas are threatened. In nearly half of the largest population centers in America, one private insurer has at least 50 percent of the market.... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
professor at Harvard Business School who coleads the WMS with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics. "If you really want to be convincing, it's important to have large-scale View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
finance and infrastructure finance and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2005 to 2009. Examples of project-financed investments include the $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum smelter in Mozambique,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne