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July 2002 (Revised March 2005)
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Kendall Square Research Corporation (A) (Abridged)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and F. Warren McFarlan

Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993, and the company sold stock to the public for the first time. Analysts forecasted higher earnings for 1993, then the company's revenue recognition... View Details

Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Standards; Accounting Audits; Computer Industry

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Bloomberg Research Portal

What information is available from the Bloomberg Research Portal? The Bloomberg Research Portal (BRC) is a gateway for accessing aggregated research from over 1,500... View Details

November 2007
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The 1995 Release of the Institutional Investor Research Report: The Impact of New Information

By: Boris Groysberg, Nitin Nohria and Derek Haas

In 1995, Institutional Investor magazine began selling a complete ranking of the best equity research analysts. This report allowed research firms to assess the relative quality of each analyst across the industry, and this enabled firms to know nearly as much about... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Investment Banking; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry

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March 2023 (Revised March 2025)
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Close Concerns: Diabetes Research and Advocacy

By: Regina Herzlinger and Brian L. Walker

Diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 18, Kelly Close understood the importance of balancing consistency and iteration. This principle had also informed her professional work, which started with a rapid promotion from financial analyst at Goldman Sachs to an analyst... View Details

Keywords: Diabetes; Health; Health Care; Health Care And Treatment; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Industry; Knowledge Dissemination; Outcome or Result; Equality and Inequality; Business Model; Entrepreneurship

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19 Oct 2015
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Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

decisions. Analysts and Advocates Sometimes it’s hard to measure exactly the impact that academic research has on government—or to tell in advance what kind of research will be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

than 2 percent of all research published in the leading finance journals. Accordingly, in early July, HBS finance professor Peter Tufano organized a conference for eighty researchers from the United States... View Details

2024
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Empirical Guidance: Data Processing and Analysis with Applications in Stata, R, and Python

By: Melissa Ouellet and Michael W. Toffel

This paper describes a range of best practices to compile and analyze datasets, and includes some examples in Stata, R, and Python. It is meant to serve as a reference for those getting started in econometrics, and especially those seeking to conduct data analyses in... View Details

Keywords: Empirical Methods; Empirical Operations; Statistical Methods And Machine Learning; Statistical Interferences; Research Analysts; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods

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Bloomberg Research Portal | Baker Library

page displays the research available. Use the side panel to view current Filters and refine results by criteria such as Asset Class, Analyst Action, and Content Type. Select items from list of Headlines in... View Details

08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

Marketing, Jill Wehunt, and analyst Mark Morse as they tackle a predictive analytics project to increase sales in the Mom & Baby unit of a nationally recognized retailer, PriceMart. Wehunt observed that in the midst of the chaos that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

expert center on cultivating an analytic mindset. In the present research the authors explore the benefit to enthusiasts of moving beyond analytics to cultivate a holistic style of processing. In the taste context the authors define... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts New systems of accounting... View Details

21 Aug 2000
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Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

firms they work in? Are they specific to the firms that have developed them; or are they stars because they have some intrinsically special qualities and abilities? We have looked at investment analysts in View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Games, and can earn enough revenue to cover large ongoing costs, their owners—local governments and taxpayers—must pay off the deficits. Summer Olympics stadiums, normally built to seat over 70,000 people, are particularly at risk of becoming white elephants. This... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Statistical Resources - Research Computing Services

standard errors using SAS An introduction to R The Cramer-Rao lower bound - derivation and examples Projection Matrices and Regression Sum of Squares The Frisch-Waugh-Lovell Theorem Matrix Derivation of the Frisch-Waugh-Lovell Theorem Delta Method Blogs Please see the... View Details

30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

of home buyers, investors, and regulators. Using the latest research in psychology and behavioral economics, they present a new theory of belief formation that explains why the financial crisis came as such a shock to so many people—and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

companies, the companies that hire them, the types of problems that economists are currently working on, and the areas of academic research that have emerged in relation to these problems. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

application, based upon data from multiple APM systems. The research was conducted in collaboration with a European automotive company, using two months of live application data. We show that our model detects abnormal system behavior... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2013
Book

Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future

By: Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy

Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly-traded companies to institutional and retail investors to help them make more profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years Wall Street research has been battered by a series of... View Details

Keywords: Financial Analysts; Investment Banks; Conflicts Of Interest; Accounting; Financial Institutions; Financial Services Industry; United States

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