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- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match estimates of the intergenerational transmission of earnings ability in the United States, and use the model to simulate optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
reverberate through a supply chain, causing huge swings of inventory and production levels. That's a difficult idea for a faculty member to convey at the blackboard. This year, we used our wireless network to run a simulation exercise,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Ricardo Software Harvard Business School Case 607-019 Engineer John Harrison must determine why motorcycle racer Marco Presto does not feel that his motorcycle is providing enough power as it comes out of corners. Harrison uses engine View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
high-quality output. To evaluate this tradeoff, I develop a procedure to estimate agents' effort costs and simulate counterfactuals under alternative feedback policies. The results suggest that feedback on net increases the number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
Adaptation The program started with an interactive simulation about a city grappling with the threats of extreme heat, increased flooding, other climate-driven disruption, and those impacts on both public health and economic development.... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the benefits it generates through conventional channels. Only tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as disability status, will be used. Calibrated View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
simulate counterfactuals, and develop tentative implications for pricing policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-034.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBT Plc: The Broadband Revolution (A) Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
teach, particularly quantitative courses, has been changed immensely by technology. We continue to experiment with simulations and other tools we think can enhance the learning experience. That said, the basic interaction in the classroom... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
distraction the better—so it’s just my voice-over, informal and without a script. I also try my best to give students deeper intuition rather than just learning things by rote. I can also sometimes be a bit eccentric, which I think the students like. The screen image... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
sentence. It makes rereads enjoyable; there’s always more to explore and contemplate. The book that helped me read something like Simulacra and Simulation is How to Read a Book. It made me realize that reading is an intensely informative... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
companies and entrepreneurs. Q: What sorts of hurdles remain? A: One challenge is general distrust in the approach. PRT is complicated—numerous small vehicles rather than a few large vehicles, computer control in place of drivers. View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
practicing harder and working harder. (The example was shared of the University of Connecticut's women's basketball team, which has its starters practice not against five other players, but against eight, to simulate the most difficult... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- Web
Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog
reactions and what you would do – not to judge what they did. Weekly Exercises. Most weeks you will have exercises that accompany the readings to learn more about you, whether it’s looking back at your past, or tracking how you spend your time, or playing a life View Details
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
those that return instantaneous results—even when those results are identical. In five experiments that simulate service experiences in the domains of online travel and online dating, we demonstrate the impact of the labor illusion on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
intuition rather than just learning things by rote. I can also sometimes be a bit eccentric, which I think the students like. The screen image is of a chalkboard, simulated through software, and I “write” on it as the lesson develops.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Leadership and Corporate Accountability, Strategy, The Entrepreneurial Manager, and other required courses in a fully integrated fashion,” says Moon. A financial market simulation will allow students to act as investors valuing businesses... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
a series of falsification checks that use information from unaffected portions of the income distribution to improve RD estimates. This strategy improves balance on observables between treatment and control groups, and Monte Carlo View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
computer simulation highlighting the work performed by the government of an archetypal American town—from building roads to ensuring food safety—increased trust in government and support for government services. In Study 2 (N=125), Boston... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
(from the case); analyzing preliminary estimated costs per building trade (from the discussion questions); playing the multiparty real time competitive bid simulation to receive and process market costs; and debriefing on which bids... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace