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- 13 May 2008
- News
Brazil Joins Front Rank Of New Economic Powers
- 24 Oct 2011
- News
Top 'Innovators' Rank Low in R&D Spending
- 27 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings
- November 2022
- Article
Hate Crime Towards Minoritized Groups Increases as They Increase in Sized-Based Rank
By: Mina Cikara, Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
People are on the move in unprecedented numbers within and between countries. How does demographic change affect local intergroup dynamics? In complement to accounts that emphasize stereotypical features of groups as determinants of their treatment, we propose the... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice; Minority; Hate Crimes; Reference Dependence; Prejudice and Bias; Attitudes; Demographics
Cikara, Mina, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini. "Hate Crime Towards Minoritized Groups Increases as They Increase in Sized-Based Rank." Nature Human Behaviour 6, no. 11 (November 2022): 1537–1544. (Pre-Published online August 8, 2022, Featured in HBS Working Knowledge and ABC News.)
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
What's the Greenest Building? The Problem With Ranking Systems
- 17 Jan 2023
- News
Harvard Medical School withdraws from U.S. News rankings
- Article
Refined Configuration Results for Extremal Type II Lattices of Ranks 40 and 80
By: Noam D. Elkies and Scott Duke Kominers
We show that, if L is an extremal Type II lattice of rank 40 or 80, then L is generated by its vectors of norm min(L)+2. This sharpens earlier results of Ozeki, and the second author and Abel, which showed that such lattices L are generated by their vectors of norms... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
Elkies, Noam D., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Refined Configuration Results for Extremal Type II Lattices of Ranks 40 and 80." Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 138, no. 1 (January 2010): 105–108.
- October 19, 2011
- Article
What's the Greenest Building? The Problem With Ranking Systems
By: Auden Schendler and Mike Toffel
Schendler, Auden, and Mike Toffel. "What's the Greenest Building? The Problem With Ranking Systems." The Atlantic (website) (October 19, 2011). (Republished in grist. Revised version in The Guardian (UK) and in ChinaDialogue including in Chinese.)
- February 2015
- Case
Sarah Sullivan at Greater Marketing Solutions (GMS)
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Paul McKinnon and Rebecca McCue
Sarah Sullivan, the new Managing Director of Greater Marketing Solutions, faces the difficult challenge of letting seven professionals go within a short span of time. In doing so she faces two greater challenges: figuring out which individuals to let go and getting her... View Details
DeLong, Thomas J., Paul McKinnon, and Rebecca McCue. "Sarah Sullivan at Greater Marketing Solutions (GMS)." Harvard Business School Case 415-051, February 2015.
- 16 May 2018
- News
Salaries at this Boston company rank among highest in US
- 02 Jul 2021
- News
Bezos’ Exit Is One of Many Among Amazon’s Top Ranks
- October 2023
- Article
Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates
By: Riako Granzier, Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud
Candidates’ placements in polls or past elections can be powerful coordination devices for both parties and voters. Using a regression discontinuity design in French elections, we show that candidates who place first by only a small margin in the first round are more... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Voting; Coordination; Bandwagon Effect; Regression Discontinuity Design; French Elections; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; France
Granzier, Riako, Vincent Pons, and Clémence Tricaud. "Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 15, no. 4 (October 2023): 177–217.
- 2021
- Article
Does Fair Ranking Improve Minority Outcomes? Understanding the Interplay of Human and Algorithmic Biases in Online Hiring
By: Tom Sühr, Sophie Hilgard and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Ranking algorithms are being widely employed in various online hiring platforms including LinkedIn, TaskRabbit, and Fiverr. Prior research has demonstrated that ranking algorithms employed by these platforms are prone to a variety of undesirable biases, leading to the... View Details
Sühr, Tom, Sophie Hilgard, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Does Fair Ranking Improve Minority Outcomes? Understanding the Interplay of Human and Algorithmic Biases in Online Hiring." Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society 4th (2021).
- 12 Oct 2021
- News
Apollo Hires Legendary Banker Bill Lewis (MBA 1982) to Boost Top Ranks
Photo source: Apollo Global Management Inc. Investment banker Bill Lewis (MBA 1982) has joined Apollo Global Management Inc. as a senior partner and a member of Apollo’s Management Committee. Lewis had previously been Chairman of Investment Banking at Lazard, which he... View Details
- 07 Oct 2020
- News
Hedge Funds Fall Flat When It Comes To Diversifying Their Ranks
- 2002
- Chapter
Ranking National Environmental Regulation and Performance: A Leading Indicator of Future Competitiveness?
By: Daniel Esty and Michael E. Porter
This chapter from The Global Competitiveness Report analyzes the differences among countries in environmental performance and the link between environmental outcomes and national environmental policy choices. The chapter reveals the findings from an exploration... View Details
Esty, Daniel, and Michael E. Porter. "Ranking National Environmental Regulation and Performance: A Leading Indicator of Future Competitiveness?" In The Global Competitiveness Report 2001–2002, by Michael E. Porter, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Peter K. Cornelius, John W. McArthur, and Klaus Schwab, 78–101. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.