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Beyond Individualized Recourse: Interpretable and Interactive Summaries of Actionable Recourses

By: Kaivalya Rawal and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As predictive models are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes decision-making, there has been a lot of interest in developing algorithms which can provide recourses to affected individuals. While developing such tools is important, it is even more critical to... View Details
Keywords: Predictive Models; Decision Making; Framework; Mathematical Methods
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  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

wise or lucky. His blend of new statistical methods and old common-sense reasoning helped him profit as the forecasting industry first developed. Irving Fisher, Economic Forecasting, and the Myth of the Business Cycle Author:Walter A.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

existence of the hierarchical relationships among firms, and empirical work has focused on a single level of an industry or bilateral relationships. However, quantitative evidence on the deep hierarchy in large industrial sectors is lacking. In this paper, we develop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

causes greater happiness. In this chapter, we have two primary aims. First, we review the evidence linking charitable behavior and happiness. We present research from a variety of samples (adults, children, and primates) and methods... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

potential explanations or collapse many mechanisms altogether. We discuss the empirical difficulties that arise in distinguishing between different mechanisms as well as some promising approaches for making progress in doing so. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order impact on setting payout policy.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2014
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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
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to knowledge spillover from multinational to domestic firms. An alternative, less stressed explanation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

using people analytics in hiring. The case also provides an accessible yet thorough explanation of the key aspects of artificial intelligence (supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement machine learning). The case is well suited to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2013
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Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

decreased reliability over time and sensitive to their growing visibility to regulators and to potential litigation. This result is robust to numerous alternative explanations such as the changing composition of regulators, the growth of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 08 Sep 2008
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The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

market? How are jobs affected as AI penetrates the workplace? What are the long-term consequences of COVID-19 on the workforce? What is the explanation for America having a record number of job openings and near record-low workforce... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

While HBS scholars have long appreciated the value of field-based research, the broader academic community in the field of finance has been slower to accept this method of inquiry. Field-based research, which closely studies the actions... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2014
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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 for yoking together groups of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2019
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Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

trade-off between distribution and inventory costs. The faster, more dependable (and more expensive) the distribution method employed, the lower the inventory cost incurred. If only we had more dependable and lower cost distribution based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 02 Apr 2018
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Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

to see if their explanations matched their actions; and traced the performance of the companies they invested in. As she described in a previous paper published in Administrative Science Quarterly, decisions attributed to gut feel were... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

voters punish the ruling party when the party responds vigorously to the crisis. Moreover, severe crises are associated with increased voter sensitivity to disaster assistance. These results are consistent with models of government accountability and provide an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

organization, as opposed to the characteristics of single plants. Rather than limiting the responses with multiple choice or yes/no questions, the interviewers kept the questions open-ended to get a complete picture of the actual practices adopted in the organization.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Aug 2013
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Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

Is there a method to their madness, investing in what has been widely characterized as a dying business? Of course there are plausible explanations for their purchases that have nothing to do with economics.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

able to sustain large businesses in those countries even in the postwar era of hostility to foreign multinationals. It argues that the explanation is multi-causal. Unilever held first-mover advantages in both countries, but it was also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne