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Statistical Methodology

William Simpson is developing methods of inference to use when assumptions of standard models are not met. He has created a hypothesis test to use for ipsative variables that adjusts for the non-zero correlations among variables expected under the null hypothesis. ... View Details

  • July 1991
  • Case

Managing the U.S. Dollar in the 1980s

By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick
Provides numerical data and alternative explanations concerning the U.S. dollar's rise and subsequent fall in value from 1981 through 1987. Students are challenged to study the evidence and make their own inferences concerning the dollar's movements and the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Theory; United States
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Kester, W. Carl, and Richard P. Melnick. "Managing the U.S. Dollar in the 1980s." Harvard Business School Case 292-001, July 1991.
  • 12 Oct 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Dennis Zhang, Washington University, St. Louis

  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Thanks for Nothing: Expressing Gratitude Invites Exploitation by Competitors

By: Jeremy Yip, Kelly Kiyeon Lee, Cindy Chan and Alison Wood Brooks
Previous research has revealed that expressing gratitude motivates prosocial behavior in cooperative relationships. However, expressing gratitude in competitive interactions may operate differently. Across five studies, we demonstrate that individuals interacting with... View Details
Keywords: Gratitude; Forgiveness; Negotiations; Emotion; Emotions; Behavior; Negotiation; Ethics
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Yip, Jeremy, Kelly Kiyeon Lee, Cindy Chan, and Alison Wood Brooks. "Thanks for Nothing: Expressing Gratitude Invites Exploitation by Competitors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-081, February 2018.

    Importance of Being Causal

    Causal inference is the study of how actions, interventions, or treatments affect outcomes of interest. The methods that have received the lion’s share of attention in the data science literature for establishing causation are variations of randomized... View Details

    • 18 Sep 2021
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    Celebrating AI-Infused Talent Management at the Eightfold Conference

    • 28 Jan 2011
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    Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Scott Duke Kominers; Technology
    • 2008
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    Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs

    By: Michael W. Toffel
    Firms and regulators are increasingly relying on voluntary mechanisms to signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information; Standards; Performance Improvement; Programs; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    Toffel, Michael W. "Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-023, December 2008. (October 2006.)

      Iavor I. Bojinov

      Iavor Bojinov is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the co-PI of the AI and Data Science Operations Lab and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and the Harvard Data Science... View Details

      • 22 Apr 2015
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      Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure

      Keywords: by Ginger Jin, Michael Luca & Daniel Martin
      • 2015
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      Understanding Conformity: An Experimental Investigation

      By: B. Douglas Bernheim and Christine L Exley
      Some theories of conformity hold that social equilibrium either standardizes inferences or promotes a shared understanding of conventions and norms among individuals with fixed heterogeneous preferences (belief mechanisms). Others depict tastes as fluid and hence... View Details
      Keywords: Conformity; Norms; Image Motivation; Prosocial Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Standards
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      Bernheim, B. Douglas, and Christine L Exley. "Understanding Conformity: An Experimental Investigation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-070, December 2015.
      • June 2025
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      Accounting for OpenAI at Microsoft

      By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli, Nicole Zelazko and Michael Norris
      In early 2025, Microsoft was evaluating the impact of its $14 billion investment in OpenAI. As OpenAI’s computing needs expanded, Microsoft positioned Azure as the exclusive provider for training and inference of their large language models. Despite the scale of the... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Financial Reporting; Revenue Recognition; Corporate Finance; Capital; Investment; Revenue; AI and Machine Learning; Valuation; Governance; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
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      Heese, Jonas, Joseph Pacelli, Nicole Zelazko, and Michael Norris. "Accounting for OpenAI at Microsoft." Harvard Business School Case 125-118, June 2025.
      • June 2022
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      The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond

      By: Josh Lerner and Amit Seru
      Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovation increasingly used in financial economics (and management research more broadly). Biases may result, however, from the interactions between the truncation of patents and citations and the changing... View Details
      Keywords: Patents; Analytics and Data Science; Corporate Finance; Research
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      Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru. "The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 6 (June 2022): 2667–2704.
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      Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

      • August 2017
      • Article

      Is the SEC Captured? Evidence from Comment-Letter Reviews

      By: Jonas Heese, Mozaffar Khan and Karthik Ramanna
      SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) negatively predict enforcement actions,... View Details
      Keywords: Comment Letters; Political Connections; Regulatory Capture; SEC Enforcement; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics
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      Heese, Jonas, Mozaffar Khan, and Karthik Ramanna. "Is the SEC Captured? Evidence from Comment-Letter Reviews." Journal of Accounting & Economics 64, no. 1 (August 2017). (Revised June 2017.)
      • 12 Feb 2020
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      Trump is Waiting and He is Ready

      • September 2002 (Revised March 2003)
      • Technical Note

      Technical Note on Equity-Linked Consideration, Part 2: Announcement Effects

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      The announcement of merger or acquisition conveys new information to the capital markets. Shareholders and portfolio managers assess the news and trade on the basis of their new appraisals of value. Thus, from the actual Pstks of the two companies one can infer from... View Details
      Keywords: Announcements; Price; Acquisition; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Technical Note on Equity-Linked Consideration, Part 2: Announcement Effects." Harvard Business School Technical Note 903-028, September 2002. (Revised March 2003.)
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      Brand Values and Capital Market Valuation

      By: Mary Barth, Michael B. Clement, George Foster and Ron Kasznik
      Brand value estimates are significantly positively related to prices and returns, incremental to accounting variables. Questionable brand value estimate reliability underlies lack of financial statement recognition for brands. Findings suggest estimates are relevant... View Details
      Keywords: Brands and Branding; Valuation
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      Barth, Mary, Michael B. Clement, George Foster, and Ron Kasznik. "Brand Values and Capital Market Valuation." Review of Accounting Studies 3, nos. 1-2 (1998): 41–68.
      • June 2017
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      Conspicuous Consumption of Time: When Busyness and Lack of Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol

      By: Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia and Anat Keinan
      While research on conspicuous consumption has typically analyzed how people spend money on products that signal status, we investigate conspicuous consumption in relation to time. We argue that a busy and overworked lifestyle, rather than a leisurely lifestyle, has... View Details
      Keywords: Status and Position; Perspective; North America; Europe
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      Bellezza, Silvia, Neeru Paharia, and Anat Keinan. "Conspicuous Consumption of Time: When Busyness and Lack of Leisure Time Become a Status Symbol." Journal of Consumer Research 44, no. 1 (June 2017): 118–138.
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      Coarse Thinking and Persuasion

      By: Sendhil Mullainathan, Joshua Schwartzstein and Andrei Shleifer
      We present a model of uninformative persuasion in which individuals "think coarsely": they group situations into categories and apply the same model of inference to all situations within a category. Coarse thinking exhibits two features that persuaders take advantage... View Details
      Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Brands and Branding
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      Mullainathan, Sendhil, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Andrei Shleifer. "Coarse Thinking and Persuasion." Quarterly Journal of Economics 123, no. 2 (May 2008): 577–619.
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