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    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation

    By: Dae Woong Ham, Michael Lindon, Martin Tingley and Iavor Bojinov
    Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers’ decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Research and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior
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    • 22 May 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24

    Keywords: by Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp & V.G. Narayanan; Food & Beverage
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The Real Effects of Fair Workweek Laws on Work Schedules: Evidence from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia

    By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman
    Effective in eight jurisdictions and banned in four, Fair Workweek Laws (FWL) aim to increase the predictability and stability of work schedules. Among other requirements, these laws penalize employers for unilaterally adjusting work schedules without providing some... View Details
    Keywords: Working Conditions; Employees; Outcome or Result; Los Angeles; Chicago; Philadelphia
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    • 16 Nov 2020
    • Blog Post

    Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

    work authorization to come through before being able to work again. Joshua Rodriguez: My goals for the summer were three-fold: (1) demystify what is data science (2) get comfortable using Python and SQL for View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service

    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

    • September 16, 2022
    • Article

    A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties

    By: Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Iavor I. Bojinov, Erik Brynjolfsson and Sinan Aral
    The authors analyzed data from multiple large-scale randomized experiments on LinkedIn’s People You May Know algorithm, which recommends new connections to LinkedIn members, to test the extent to which weak ties increased job mobility in the world’s largest... View Details
    Keywords: Job Mobility; Social Networks; Social Ties; Networks; Personal Development and Career
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: The Impact of Access and Value

    By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
    The goal of this paper is to leverage household-level data to improve food-related policies aimed at increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables (FVs) among low-income households. Currently, several interventions target areas where residents have limited... View Details
    Keywords: Food Deserts; Food Access; Food Policy; Causal Inference; Food; Nutrition; Poverty; Government Administration
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    E-commerce During COVID: Stylized Facts from 47 Economies

    By: Joel Alcedo, Alberto Cavallo, Bricklin Dwyer, Prachi Mishra and Antonio Spilimbergo
    We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Spending; Internet and the Web; Global Range; Analysis; E-commerce
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    • Person Page

    Educational Technology

    Streamlined Real-Time Slide Generation and Editing

    Lets an instructor build slides during class, based on class discussion -- "the chalkboard alternative."  Student view offers a clean display with no distracting details (no menus, toolbars, or the... View Details

    • February 2025
    • Article

    Sale of Private Equity–Owned Physician Practices and Physician Turnover

    By: Victoria Berquist, Lev Klarnet and Leemore Dafny
    Private equity (PE) ownership of physician practices is increasing, with owners targeting sales, or exits, in 3 to 7 years. Little is known about the association of exit with physician retention and subsequent employment. Using panel data over the period 2014-2020, we... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Retention; Health Industry
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web

    By: Marco Iansiti
    Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation. Given the interdependent nature of innovation in information technology, three core principles have emerged that work together to ensure that... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
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      Eaton Corp.: Portfolio Transformation and the Cost of Capital

      In 2000, Eaton Corporation was broadly diversified industrial conglomerate.  But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed... View Details
      • 26 Mar 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia

      Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer
      • 2010
      • Article

      Estimating the Attributable Cost of Physician Burnout in the United States

      By: Shasha Han, Tait D. Shanafelt, Christine A. Sinsky, Karim M. Awad, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Lynne C. Fiscus, Mickey Trockel and Joel Goh
      Background: Although physician burnout is associated with negative clinical and organizational outcomes, its economic costs are poorly understood. As a result, leaders in health care cannot properly assess the financial benefits of initiatives to remediate... View Details
      Keywords: Physicians; Burnout; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Employees; Cost; Programs; Policy; Health Industry
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      • 06 Aug 2024
      • Op-Ed

      What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

      immigrants with that of more recent, non-European immigrants to the US, they conclude that the pace of immigrant assimilation today is similar to what prevailed 100 years ago. When interpreting evidence from the past, it is important to note that historical View Details
      Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
      • July 2019
      • Article

      'Forward Flow': A New Measure to Quantify Free Thought and Predict Creativity

      By: Kurt Gray, Stephen Anderson, Eric Evan Chen, John Michael Kelly, Michael S. Christian, John Patrick, Laura Huang, Yoed N. Kenett and Kevin Lewis
      When the human mind is free to roam, its subjective experience is characterized by a continuously evolving stream of thought. Although there is a technique that captures people’s streams of free thought—free association—its utility for scientific research is undermined... View Details
      Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Forecasting and Prediction
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      • August 2015 (Revised May 2017)
      • Case

      TSG Hoffenheim: Football in the Age of Analytics

      By: Feng Zhu, Karim R. Lakhani, Sascha L. Schmidt and Kerry Herman
      In 2015, Dietmar Hopp, owner of Germany's Bundesliga football team TSG Hoffenheim and co-founder of the global enterprise software company SAP, was considering how to ensure long-term sustainability and competitiveness for TSG Hoffenheim. While historically a small... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Measurement and Metrics; Sports; Sports Industry
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      • April 2014
      • Article

      Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors

      By: Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby and Filiz Garip
      The number of human cadavers available for medical research and training, as well as organ transplantation, is limited. Researchers disagree about how to increase the number of whole-body bequeathals, citing a shortage of donations from the one group perceived as most... View Details
      Keywords: Altruism; Donations; Body; Whole-body; Clinical Anatomy; Medical Specialties; California
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