Statistics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
News

1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success

and September cohorts would fare differently in the job market after graduation, since the January cohort proceeded straight through the MBA Program without the traditional summer work experience. Placement statistics for the Class of... View Details

23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

working paper, "Modeling Passenger Travel and Delays in the National Air Transportation System," Fearing and coauthors Cynthia Barnhart and Vikrant Vaze of MIT apply statistical techniques to develop a representative sample of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project experience. This full-time, intensive eight-week remote learning program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a... View Details

27 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

other end of the spectrum, researchers can obtain false positives by running statistical tests over and over until they find the result they are looking for, or by excluding data after looking at how doing so might affect the results. The... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

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Managing Global Operations

Statista Quick statistics and analysis on various topics including data on the pandemic and its impact on countries, industries, as well as topics such as HR technologies. Worth notice: each record includes sources used. That is a... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: India

grande,sans-serif;">Useful for: quick statistics on various topics such as bottled water sales in India, etc.

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10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

(RCT)—was limited in many ways. While statistically rigorous and still considered the “gold standard” in clinical research, traditional RCTs were time-consuming, costly, and limited to testing just one new drug at a time. Adaptive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

correspondence, and statistics on goods exported from China to the United States. Two day books kept from Macao and Canton detail expenses and credits and dealings with American China trading firms Olyphant & Co. and Russell & Co. George... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

used traditional methods of inquiry - mathematical theory or statistical analysis, for instance - while others employed interviews, primary company materials, surveys, and close examination of the trading of individual securities. A... View Details

Student-Profile

Anastassia Fedyk

Princeton, I took a slightly different approach, and spent a few years doing research and portfolio management at Goldman Sachs. I worked on statistical arbitrage strategies, news sentiment in credit markets, and regime-switching models,... View Details

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a director of Wal-Mart Stores.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 May 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

career and life criteria. Often you might not know from looking at a company’s statistics whether that's going to be the right place for you, so you need to meet and talk to employees. As you narrow down your target list, I recommend... View Details

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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

holds more than 50,000 retired cases used for teaching at HBS from the 1920s to the current day. These cases offer insight into the challenges facing companies and include historic and statistical data. There are over 500 retired cases... View Details

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Set Your Recruiting Vision for 2020

seamless conversations between recruiters and students. Goal: Increase Yield Consider resources available to increase your yield from offer to accept. Benchmark your salary and bonuses against your competitors in the industry with the latest salary View Details

Keywords: All Industries

28 May 2019
News

Ask the Expert: In Security

common than ever? —John Lacey (MBA 1981) YOUNG: Bulletproof security is not statistically possible, but we can minimize risk by developing layers of protection and proactive approaches that increase those layers. Adversarial machine... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

01 Mar 2018
News

Turning Point: One Step at a Time

met several hundred of my classmates and discovered something unexpected: The proportion that had run marathons or climbed Kilimanjaro was statistically improbable within a random sampling of people. These Herculean feats of endurance... View Details

Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

years earlier,” says Calvo. “Then we (calculated) the expected election’s results based on those numbers.” The results weren’t good for forecasters, even after the authors statistically “stacked the deck” to favor demographic-based... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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