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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Pricing Lab at HBS to answer this timely macro question. We use novel statistics developed with real-time data and apply them to measure stockouts and detect structural breaks in inflation trends. Participants will leave with a better... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Solving for Z

unemployment has been hovering at historic lows; in April, it sank to 3.4 percent, a figure not seen since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. US Chamber of Commerce analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the first part... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

Acceptance Rate 3% More Key Enrollment Statistics New Faculty Twenty-three faculty members, including new tenure-track professors, visitors, and practitioners, participated in START, a deep-dive orientation to the School that took place... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Thinking Ahead

month? Statistics can more effectively inspire action in the short run. The further away you are from the point in time where the information will be used, the more you should lean into stories and anecdotes, because those are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • August 2016
  • Article

Independent Directors' Dissent on Boards: Evidence from Listed Companies in China

By: Juan Ma and Tarun Khanna
In this paper, we examine the circumstances under which so-called "independent" directors voice their independent views on public boards in a sample of Chinese firms. First, we ask why independent directors dissent, i.e. how they justify such dissent to public... View Details
Keywords: Independent Directors; China; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; China
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  • 29 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?

than those who were promised $3." Higher pay didn't lead to statistically better performance. “Think carefully not just about what to pay employees, but also how to pay them” "When someone is paid $4," said Malhotra of the findings, "even... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
  • 30 Oct 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Housing Collateral, Credit Constraints, and Entrepreneurship-Evidence from a Mortgage Reform

Keywords: by Thais Laerkholm Jensen, Søren Leth-Petersen & Ramana Nanda; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services
  • February 2021
  • Article

Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems

By: A Jay Holmgren, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Kevin A. Schulman
Importance: Understanding how the electronic health record (EHR) system changes clinician work, productivity, and well-being is critical. Little is known regarding global variation in patterns of use.
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Online Technology; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • January 2020
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Assessing the Safety of Electronic Health Records: A National Longitudinal Study of Medication-related Decision Support

By: A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Melissa Danforth, David Classen and David Bates
Background Electronic health records (EHR) can improve safety via computerised physician order entry with clinical decision support, designed in part to alert providers and prevent potential adverse drug events at entry and before they reach the patient.... View Details
Keywords: Hospital; Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Safety; Performance; Quality; Performance Improvement
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

By: Josh Lerner, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker and Ann Leamon
In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners alike has been about the quality of these... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Finance
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  • September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
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  • 18 Apr 2023
  • HBS Seminar

Daron Acemoglu, MIT

  • Fast Answer

Exchange rates: current & historical

menu, choose Exchange Rate Indices. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Statistical Release - Foreign Exchange Rates:  Exchange rates against the U.S. dollar and several countries back as far as the 1970s in some cases. View Details
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National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018

By: David Classen, A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth and David Bates
Importance Despite the broad adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems across the continuum of care, safety problems persist. Objective To measure the safety performance of operational EHRs in hospitals across the country during a 10-year period. Design,... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Record Systems; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Performance; Safety; Measurement and Metrics; United States
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  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. The Variance of Non-Parametric Treatment Effect Estimators in the Presence of Clustering Authors:Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

a neuroscientist, but I can read the science. It’s the same tools as social science—the experiment, treatment, control, human subjects, statistical inference, using the scientific method. Outside of academia, the happiness field has... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
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Mergers & acquisitions

/> Ref. HD 2741 .M48 in the Stamps Reading Room Annual statistical analysis by industry and geography. Includes 25 years of summary statistics and largest announcements in history.   View Details
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Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

including correspondence, interviews, research reports, and statistical analyses. Fritz Roethlisberger Papers Online finding aid The papers of Fritz Jules Roethlisberger cover his activities as researcher and professor of Industrial... View Details
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Courses - Business History

more of the business history electives. Teaching Resources Resources, including statistical charis and an international directory of syllabi, for teaching history in business schools and other graduate institutions as well as in colleges.... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

authors reach their conclusions by correlating the timesheet records to a host of other data points, including daily store sales, scheduling practices, store traffic, and weather. In conducting their analyses, the researchers created a View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail