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- 2001
- Other Unpublished Work
Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis
By: Nicole DeHoratius and A. Raman
- 2016
- Technical Note
Introduction to Experience-Based Forecasting: Empirical Backtesting
By: Y. Grushka-Cockayne and K. C. Lichtendahl
- 02 May 2021
- News
Kominers’s Conundrums: The Empire Strikes Back on a Holiday
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Empirical Economics of Online Attention
By: Andre Boik, Shane Greenstein and Jeffrey Prince
In several markets, firms compete not for consumer expenditure but instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competition; Behavior; Resource Allocation; Household; Cognition and Thinking
Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince. "The Empirical Economics of Online Attention." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22427, July 2016.
- November 2003 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire
By: Geoffrey Jones and Ingrid Vargas
Taught in Evolution of Global Business. Globalization and corporate fraud are the central themes of this case on the international growth of Swedish Match in the interwar years. Between 1913 and 1932, Ivar Kreuger, known as the "Swedish Match King," built a small,... View Details
Keywords: History; International Finance; Globalized Firms and Management; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Monopoly; Business and Government Relations; Sweden
Jones, Geoffrey, and Ingrid Vargas. "Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire." Harvard Business School Case 804-078, November 2003. (Revised September 2021.)
National Customer Orientation: An Empirical Test across 112 Countries
Customer orientation is a central tenet of marketing. However, less is known about how customer orientation varies across countries and time. Mintz, Currim, and Deshpandé (Eur. J. Mark., 56: 1014–1041, 2022) propose a country-level construct, national customer... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Empirical Technology and Operations Management Course
I taught a set of lectures on "Introduction to Machine Learning for Social Scientists" as part of this required course for first year PhD students. This module familiarizes students with all the basic concepts in machine learning, their implementations, as well as the... View Details
- June 2023
- Article
National Customer Orientation: An Empirical Test across 112 Countries
By: Ofer Mintz, Imran S. Currim and Rohit Deshpandé
Customer orientation is a central tenet of marketing. However, less is known about how customer orientation varies across countries and time. Mintz, Currim, and Deshpandé (Eur. J. Mark., 56: 1014–1041, 2022) propose a country-level construct, national customer... View Details
Mintz, Ofer, Imran S. Currim, and Rohit Deshpandé. "National Customer Orientation: An Empirical Test across 112 Countries." Marketing Letters 34, no. 2 (June 2023): 189–204.
- 2022
- Book
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Sprawling across a quarter of the world’s land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain’s twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation’s cultural superiority, but what legacy did... View Details
Keywords: Imperialism; Violence; Colonialism; History; Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Race; Policy; United Kingdom
Elkins, Caroline M. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
- Article
Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics." Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010): 105–137.
- Article
Measurement of Productivity Improvements: An Empirical Analysis
By: R. Banker, S. Datar and M. Rajan
Banker, R., S. Datar, and M. Rajan. "Measurement of Productivity Improvements: An Empirical Analysis." Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance 2, no. 4 (Fall 1987): 319–347.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr
The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and geographic networks can be a powerful driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences there is a specific pattern... View Details
Keywords: Economic Fluctuations; Geographic Collocation; Input-output Linkages; Propagation; Shocks; Networks; Fluctuation; System Shocks; Macroeconomics
Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William Kerr. "Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-006, July 2015.
- 1 Jun 2015
- Conference Presentation
Empirical Research Opportunities on Inspection and Compliance
Toffel, Michael W. "Empirical Research Opportunities on Inspection and Compliance." Paper presented at the Research on Effective Government: Inspection and Compliance Workshop, University of Maryland. Maryland Center for Economics and Policy and Harvard Business School, Washington, DC, June 1, 2015.
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (C)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ramona Hilgenkamp. "Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 195-218, April 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- 2000
- Working Paper
Empirical Determinants of Chief Political Officer Pay
By: Rafael Di Tella and Ray Fisman
Di Tella, Rafael, and Ray Fisman. "Empirical Determinants of Chief Political Officer Pay." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 01-040, December 2000.
- Teaching Interest
Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship (Doctoral)
By: Josh Lerner
Entrepreneurship—the formation and growth of new firms—is a complex phenomenon that has historically attracted relatively little academic attention. In recent years, however, scholars in a variety of disciplines have been devoting increasing attention to this topic.... View Details
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (D)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ramona Hilgenkamp. "Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 195-219, April 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- February 1999
- Case
Tele-Communications, Inc. (B): The Empire Strikes Back
Teaching Note for (9-201-061). View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Tele-Communications, Inc. (B): The Empire Strikes Back." Harvard Business School Case 899-216, February 1999.
- 2005
- Other Unpublished Work
An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy Valuation
By: Luc Wathieu and Allan Friedman
Wathieu, Luc, and Allan Friedman. "An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy Valuation." Cambridge, MA, 2005.