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  • 1999
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Estimating Industry Multiples

By: Malcolm Baker and R. S. Ruback
We analyze industry multiples for the S&P 500 in 1995. We use Gibbs sampling to estimate simultaneously the error specification and small sample minimum variance multiples for 22 industries. In addition, we consider the performance of four common multiples: the simple... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance; Mathematical Methods
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Baker, Malcolm, and R. S. Ruback. "Estimating Industry Multiples." 1999.
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Mitigating Bias in Adaptive Data Gathering via Differential Privacy

By: Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
Data that is gathered adaptively—via bandit algorithms, for example—exhibits bias. This is true both when gathering simple numeric valued data—the empirical means kept track of by stochastic bandit algorithms are biased downwards—and when gathering more complicated... View Details
Keywords: Bandit Algorithms; Bias; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; Theory
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Neel, Seth, and Aaron Leon Roth. "Mitigating Bias in Adaptive Data Gathering via Differential Privacy." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 35th (2018).
  • June 2005 (Revised March 2006)
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E Ink in 2005

By: David B. Yoffie and Barbara Mack
Explores the challenges of commercializing a bleeding-edge technology. After seven years, E Ink has spent more than $100 million to commercialize electronic ink. With business momentum picking up, but resources running out, the case examines the key trade-offs in... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Mathematical Methods; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry
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Yoffie, David B., and Barbara Mack. "E Ink in 2005." Harvard Business School Case 705-506, June 2005. (Revised March 2006.)
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Tessa Vacher-Desvernais

analytics, but truly appreciate aesthetics. I’m very conscious of my inner tension between analytical and creative thinking.” Following her mathematical and sciences baccalaureate, she pursued liberal arts at an all-girl military boarding... View Details
Keywords: Retail/Hospitality; Financial Services
  • June 2024
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Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms

By: Mohammad Akbarpour, Piotr Dworczak and Scott Duke Kominers
Many scarce public resources are allocated at below-market-clearing prices, and sometimes for free. Such "non-market" mechanisms sacrifice some surplus, yet they can potentially improve equity. We develop a model of mechanism design with redistributive concerns. Agents... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Welfare; Mathematical Methods; Market Design; Cost vs Benefits
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Akbarpour, Mohammad, Piotr Dworczak, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms." Journal of Political Economy 132, no. 6 (June 2024): 1831–1875. (Authors' names are in certified random order.)
  • May 2010
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Flare Fragrances Company, Inc.: Analyzing Growth Opportunities (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Lisa D. Donovan
Teaching note to case #4550 View Details
Keywords: Quantitative Analysis; Market Segmentation; Product Introduction; New Product Marketing; Product Lines; Product Positioning; Distribution; Mathematical Methods; Product Launch; Segmentation
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Quelch, John A., and Lisa D. Donovan. "Flare Fragrances Company, Inc.: Analyzing Growth Opportunities (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 104-551, May 2010.
  • February 2010
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Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Breakeven Analysis (CW)

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
This Excel worksheet contains sample problems, prebuilt Excel models to run breakeven analyses, and charts and graphs which help visualize the results. It is designed to accompany "Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Breakeven Analysis." View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Marketing; Decisions; Planning; Marketing Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Jill Avery. "Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Breakeven Analysis (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 510-713, February 2010.
  • June 2008
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The Market for Mergers and the Boundaries of the Firm

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and David Robinson
We relate the property rights theory of the firm to empirical regularities in the market for mergers and acquisitions. We first show that high market-to-book acquirers typically do not purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Assets; Investment; Property; Mathematical Methods; Boundaries
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Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and David Robinson. "The Market for Mergers and the Boundaries of the Firm." Journal of Finance 63, no. 3 (June 2008): 1169–1211.
  • 2008
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Taste Heterogeneity, IIA, and the Similarity Critique

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Andrew Ainslie

The purpose of this paper is to show that allowing for taste heterogeneity does not address the similarity critique of discrete-choice models. Although IIA may technically be broken in aggregate, the mixed logit model allows neither a given individual nor the... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias
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Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Andrew Ainslie. "Taste Heterogeneity, IIA, and the Similarity Critique." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-049, September 2008.
  • 2023
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Design-Based Inference for Multi-arm Bandits

By: Dae Woong Ham, Iavor I. Bojinov, Michael Lindon and Martin Tingley
Multi-arm bandits are gaining popularity as they enable real-world sequential decision-making across application areas, including clinical trials, recommender systems, and online decision-making. Consequently, there is an increased desire to use the available... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods
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Ham, Dae Woong, Iavor I. Bojinov, Michael Lindon, and Martin Tingley. "Design-Based Inference for Multi-arm Bandits." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-056, March 2024.
  • 2024
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Bootstrap Diagnostics for Irregular Estimators

By: Isaiah Andrews and Jesse M. Shapiro
Empirical researchers frequently rely on normal approximations in order to summarize and communicate uncertainty about their findings to their scientific audience. When such approximations are unreliable, they can lead the audience to make misguided decisions. We... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Decision Choices and Conditions
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Andrews, Isaiah, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Bootstrap Diagnostics for Irregular Estimators." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32038, January 2024.
  • 2023
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Distributionally Robust Causal Inference with Observational Data

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li
We consider the estimation of average treatment effects in observational studies and propose a new framework of robust causal inference with unobserved confounders. Our approach is based on distributionally robust optimization and proceeds in two steps. We first... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods
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Bertsimas, Dimitris, Kosuke Imai, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "Distributionally Robust Causal Inference with Observational Data." Working Paper, February 2023.
  • 2023
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On Minimizing the Impact of Dataset Shifts on Actionable Explanations

By: Anna P. Meyer, Dan Ley, Suraj Srinivas and Himabindu Lakkaraju
The Right to Explanation is an important regulatory principle that allows individuals to request actionable explanations for algorithmic decisions. However, several technical challenges arise when providing such actionable explanations in practice. For instance, models... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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Meyer, Anna P., Dan Ley, Suraj Srinivas, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "On Minimizing the Impact of Dataset Shifts on Actionable Explanations." Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 39th (2023): 1434–1444.
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Detecting Adversarial Attacks via Subset Scanning of Autoencoder Activations and Reconstruction Error

By: Celia Cintas, Skyler Speakman, Victor Akinwande, William Ogallo, Komminist Weldemariam, Srihari Sridharan and Edward McFowland III
Reliably detecting attacks in a given set of inputs is of high practical relevance because of the vulnerability of neural networks to adversarial examples. These altered inputs create a security risk in applications with real-world consequences, such as self-driving... View Details
Keywords: Autoencoder Networks; Pattern Detection; Subset Scanning; Computer Vision; Statistical Methods And Machine Learning; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Data Mining; Big Data; Large-scale Systems; Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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Cintas, Celia, Skyler Speakman, Victor Akinwande, William Ogallo, Komminist Weldemariam, Srihari Sridharan, and Edward McFowland III. "Detecting Adversarial Attacks via Subset Scanning of Autoencoder Activations and Reconstruction Error." Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 29th (2020).
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Investment Timing with Costly Search for Financing

By: Samuel Antill
I develop a dynamic model of investment timing in which firms must first choose when to search for external financing. Search is costly and the arrival of investors is uncertain, leading to delay in financing and investment. Depending on parameters, my model can... View Details
Keywords: Real Options; Search And Bargaining; Time-varying Financial Conditions; Investment; Venture Capital; Mathematical Methods
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Antill, Samuel. "Investment Timing with Costly Search for Financing." Working Paper, December 2017.
  • January 2011
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AIC Netbooks: Optimizing Product Assembly (Brief Case)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Sunru Yong
Teaching Note for 4245. View Details
Keywords: Performance Management; Quantitative Analysis; Manufacturing; Production Planning; Production Management; Production; Mathematical Methods; Performance Evaluation; Planning; Manufacturing Industry
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Wheelwright, Steven C., and Sunru Yong. "AIC Netbooks: Optimizing Product Assembly (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 114-246, January 2011.
  • 1981
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Productivity Measurement at the Level of the Firm: An Application within the Service Industry

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
Keywords: Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Service Industry
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Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "Productivity Measurement at the Level of the Firm: An Application within the Service Industry." In Productivity Analysis at the Firm Level, edited by Ali Dogramaci and Nabil R. Adam. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981.
  • November 1989 (Revised March 1992)
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Concept Testing

By: Robert J. Dolan
Describes concept testing products. Presents guidelines for effective design, execution, and interpretation of test procedures. Discusses limitations of these techniques and sets out the situations for which they are appropriate. View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Mathematical Methods; Forecasting and Prediction
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Dolan, Robert J. "Concept Testing." Harvard Business School Background Note 590-063, November 1989. (Revised March 1992.)
  • March 2008 (Revised February 2009)
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Transparent Value LLC

By: Sharon P. Katz, Krishna G. Palepu and Aldo Sesia, Jr.
Leading index company Dow Jones recently signed a license and joint marketing agreement with Transparent Value LLC, the creator of a new fundamentals-based valuation methodology. The agreement allowed Dow Jones to offer a family of indexes based on the Transparent... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Stocks; Price; Performance Expectations; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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Katz, Sharon P., Krishna G. Palepu, and Aldo Sesia, Jr. "Transparent Value LLC." Harvard Business School Case 108-069, March 2008. (Revised February 2009.)
  • 01 Jun 1997
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Jennifer L. Scott

year the show is reinvented," she explains. "It's a lot like a startup." Scott has always sought out new challenges and ventures. After graduating from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, she taught mathematics and business... View Details
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