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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
research here , Spencer’s other research here , and Andrei’s other research here . More Info The Cross-Section of Bank Value By: Mark Egan , Stefan Lewellen & Adi Sunderam AUG 2021 What are the determinants of value creation in U.S. commercial banks? The authors... View Details
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
advanced analytics that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI). “Chung has seen companies dramatically improve productivity after adopting advanced analytics to guide compensation.” In an ideal world, a company would use trial and error... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
using administrative data on intrafirm trade allows us to correct for measurement error in survey data and to identify the positive relationship between input-output (IO) linkages and the probability of... View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
decided to fire Easterbrook without cause and allow him to keep $105 million in stock and options. Easterbrook fulfilled his promise, saying publicly that he “acknowledges his error in judgment” and that he was “deeply grateful” for his... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, signed into law last July, is the government's response to a series of financial reporting scandals that rocked investors. Among other measures the law offers up stiff criminal penalties for accounting... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
mean? Desai: People think finance and accounting are fundamentally the same when, in fact, much of the finance approach is a reaction against accounting. If you take the information problem as central, then measuring cash becomes... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Award at the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science for "Using Data-Mined Variables in Causal Inference Tasks: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem" with Mochen Yang, Gordon Burtch, and... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
engaging in dishonest behavior allows further dishonest behavior in a subsequent task (Experiment 5). Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2563196 Measurement Errors of Expected-Return Proxies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
ineffective therapies Help providers to utilize products better and minimize errors Concentrate marketing efforts on value, not volume and discounts Support provider efforts to measure and improve results at... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more shockingly, by some View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
don't have processes for managing them. A more valuable approach would be to acknowledge the risk of measurement errors in evaluating early-stage projects, and then develop practices for addressing those... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
on channeling the keen interest many of us have in financial stability.” There is consensus within the group that financial instability often follows periods when institutions, policy makers, and investors have underestimated risks. These View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
novel dataset on algorithmic programming contests that contains data on individual effort, risk taking, and cognitive errors that may underlie tournament performance outcomes. We find that competitors on average react negatively to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and correction of such errors, Associate Professor Amy C. Edmondson studied eight teams of caregivers from two different teaching hospitals to explore how group and organizational behaviors affect error rates in administering drugs to... View Details
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specific functions when you access or use our Services. The data collected or generated by these technologies helps us perform a variety of functions such as operating the Services, measuring and improving the performance of the Services,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
profits measure of damages, we find that infringement always occurs in equilibrium with the infringing firm making market choices that manipulate the resulting market profit of the patent holder. In equilibrium, infringement takes one of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
encompassed a wide range of applications, including products, services, and development tools for both commercial and individual users. Because the undertakings were so diverse, the researchers couldn't measure each project against the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
experimenter who had made them wait, or not interrupting at all. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44857 Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy
Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, published by Prentice Hall. Q: What's the context for the development of this book? Simons: My colleagues and I in the School's Accounting and Control Unit have spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details