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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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    Marketing Models Doctoral Seminar

    This course is a doctoral level course on Quantitative Marketing. We will cover methodological as well as substantive topics this semester. Methodological topics include: Choice models, Entry and Exit models, Dynamic structural models, Bayesian estimation methods... View Details

    • 25 Feb 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design

    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    PRIMO: Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes

    By: Seth Neel
    We introduce a new differentially private regression setting we call Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes (PRIMO), inspired the common situation where a data analyst wants to perform a set of l regressions while preserving privacy, where the covariates... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods
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    Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand: Know When to Avoid, Engage, or Drop Them

    By: Jodi L Short and Michael W. Toffel
    The pandemic has placed a new spotlight on working conditions in factories that supply global companies. To avert problems, firms often impose codes of conduct on their suppliers and perform audits to assess compliance. Do these measures help identify unethical... View Details
    Keywords: Auditing; Agency Cost; Quality And Safety; Quality Management System; Quality Management; Unions; Environmental Management; Globalization; Goods and Commodities; Governance; Labor; Labor Unions; Wages; Working Conditions; Operations; Supply Chain; Safety; Quality; China; Bangladesh; Asia; Pakistan
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    • 01 Mar 2021
    • News

    Manage the Suppliers That Could Harm Your Brand

    • 10 May 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

    Portraiture is a method of qualitative research that blurs the boundaries of aesthetics and empiricism in an effort to capture the complexity, dynamics, and subtlety of human... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
    • 04 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

    standards are proposed fairly often by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. The researchers made the first year of their study 1973 because that is when the FASB came into operation. They looked at four distinct eras of contraction:... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
    • September–October 2023
    • Article

    Interpretable Matrix Completion: A Discrete Optimization Approach

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas and Michael Lingzhi Li
    We consider the problem of matrix completion on an n × m matrix. We introduce the problem of interpretable matrix completion that aims to provide meaningful insights for the low-rank matrix using side information. We show that the problem can be... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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    • November 2021
    • Article

    Panel Experiments and Dynamic Causal Effects: A Finite Population Perspective

    By: Iavor Bojinov, Ashesh Rambachan and Neil Shephard
    In panel experiments, we randomly assign units to different interventions, measuring their outcomes, and repeating the procedure in several periods. Using the potential outcomes framework, we define finite population dynamic causal effects that capture the relative... View Details
    Keywords: Panel Data; Dynamic Causal Effects; Potential Outcomes; Finite Population; Nonparametric; Mathematical Methods
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    • October 2000 (Revised April 2001)
    • Case

    Cost of Capital at Ameritrade

    By: Mark L. Mitchell and Erik Stafford
    Ameritrade Holding Corp. is planning large marketing and technology investments to improve the company's competitive position in deep-discount brokerage by taking advantage of emerging economies of scale. In order to evaluate whether the strategy would generate... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Asset Pricing; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Investment; Marketing; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry
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    • April 2025
    • Article

    Transitioning Into Retirement: The Interplay of Self and Life Structure

    By: Marcy Crary, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall, Kathy E. Kram, Teresa M. Amabile and Lotte Bailyn
    This paper explores the psychological, social, and behavioral ways in which professionals end their corporate careers and reorient themselves and their lives in the transition from employment to retirement. Framed within life course theory, specifically the adult... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement; Behavior; Transition; Identity
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    • 25 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Keywords: by Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan & Karim Lakhani; Health
    • 2011
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Networks as Covers: Evidence from On-Line Social Networks

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
    Sociologists have extensively documented that networks influence market exchange through improved matching and vouching. In this paper, I propose that networks can also blunt the signal of market participation, as actors who are on the market surrounded by their... View Details
    Keywords: Job Search; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
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    • 08 Nov 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

    • September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
    • Case

    Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
    Tom Roberts, a founding partner of Compass Maritime Services, a New Jersey-based shipping research and consulting firm, has been asked by a new potential customer in May 2008 for advice on purchasing a capesize bulk carrier. After identifying a suitable ship with his... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Price; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Negotiation Offer; Mathematical Methods; Ship Transportation; Valuation; Consulting Industry; Shipping Industry
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    • 2009
    • Article

    Modeling Expert Opinions on Food Healthfulness: A Nutrition Metric

    By: Jolie M. Martin, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Max H. Bazerman and Lisa Sutherland

    Research over the last several decades indicates the failure of existing nutritional labels to substantially improve the healthiness of consumers' food and beverage choices. The difficulty for policy-makers is to encapsulate a wide body of scientific knowledge in a... View Details

    Keywords: Judgments; Food; Nutrition; Labels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Demand and Consumers; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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    • 31 Jul 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

    powerful than the normal academic method of doing research that I will never do that again." Whether it's called crowdsourcing or open innovation, the growth of methods... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • June 2024
    • Article

    Economics of Enhanced Methane Oxidation Relative to Carbon Dioxide Removal

    By: Conor Hickey and Myles Allen
    Mitigating short-term global warming is imperative, and a key strategy involves reducing atmospheric methane (CH4) due to its high radiative forcing and short lifespan. This objective can be achieved through methods such as oxidising methane at its source or... View Details
    Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Pollutants; Research; Measurement and Metrics
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    • 18 Nov 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: November 18

    business model and analyzes how his firm evolved into a diversified business group. The research supports prevailing explanations of business groups, which identify the role of institutional voids, government policies, and contact... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne