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  • 19 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Search for Benchmarks: When Do Crowds Provide Wisdom?

Keywords: by Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma & Charles C.Y. Wang
  • 2023
  • Article

Post Hoc Explanations of Language Models Can Improve Language Models

By: Satyapriya Krishna, Jiaqi Ma, Dylan Slack, Asma Ghandeharioun, Sameer Singh and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in performing complex tasks. Moreover, recent research has shown that incorporating human-annotated rationales (e.g., Chain-of-Thought prompting) during in-context learning can significantly enhance... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of this volume is to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Program Requirements - Doctoral

2020b) Psychology Social Behavior in Organizations: Research Seminar (Psychology 2630) Advanced Social Psychology (Psychology 2500) Research Methods Courses (4 courses)... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

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
  • November 1982
  • Article

The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique

By: T. M. Amabile
States that both the popular creativity tests, such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and the subjective assessment techniques used in some previous creativity studies are ill-suited to social psychological studies of creativity. A consensual definition of... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Measurement and Metrics; Research; Perception; Theory
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  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

existing methods such as including observed covariates, random effects, or fixed effects. We then apply the latent space approach to identify social influence on installation of mobile apps in a social network. We find that peer influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Slowly Varying Regression Under Sparsity

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Michael Lingzhi Li and Omar Skali Lami
We consider the problem of parameter estimation in slowly varying regression models with sparsity constraints. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer optimization problem and demonstrate that it can be reformulated exactly as a binary convex optimization problem... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 1982
  • Article

When Self-Descriptions Contradict Behavior: Actions do Speak Louder than Words

By: T. M. Amabile and L. Kabat
Subjects viewed two videotapes, one depicting a stimulus person's self-description and the other depicting that person's behavior in a conversation, according to a four-way factorial design personality descriptor used in the self-description ("introvert" or... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Perception; Cognition and Thinking; Judgments
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  • 23 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

Unfortunately, that tendency turns out to be bad for business. “At the early stage of a company, you want the people around the table to challenge each other.” In the paper The Cost of Friendship, three Harvard researchers show that the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

Keywords: by Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger; Health
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

By: Doug J. Chung, Thomas J. Steenburgh and K. Sudhir
We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. The paper has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives
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  • Web

Program Requirements - Doctoral

2020a) Microeconomic Theory II (HBS 4011/Economics 2020b) Research Methods Courses (4 courses) All Accounting and Management students are required to have completed one undergraduate or graduate course in... View Details
  • December 1988
  • Article

Strategic Responses to Automobile Emissions Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

By: Dennis Yao
This paper examines the dynamics of standard-setting regulation under technological uncertainty and asymmetric information about technological capability. A two-period model which allows fully strategic action is developed and applied to the regulation of automobile... View Details
Keywords: Transportation; Pollutants; Standards; Governance Controls; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Mathematical Methods
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  • January 2014
  • Article

Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization

By: Dan Iancu and Nikolaos Trichakis
This paper formalizes and adapts the well-known concept of Pareto efficiency in the context of the popular robust optimization (RO) methodology for linear optimization problems. We argue that the classical RO paradigm need not produce solutions that possess the... View Details
Keywords: Robust Optimization; Pareto Optimality; Resource Allocation; Game Theory
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  • September 1974 (Revised April 1975)
  • Case

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. (B)

A consumer attitude survey involving more than 1,000 cranberry users has been conducted. Multivariate statistical procedures including factor analysis, cluster analysis and multiple discriminant analysis have been employed to suggest four attitude segments in the... View Details
Keywords: Surveys; Product Positioning; Mathematical Methods; Consumer Behavior; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • Research Summary

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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

of accounting research papers draws causal inferences notwithstanding the well-known difficulties in doing so with observational data. While a minority of papers seeks to use quasi-experimental methods to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

  • Research Summary

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By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details