statistics - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

statistics showcasing the combined cost of white collar crime. Accounting scandals: $40 billion per year. Insurance fraud: $80 billion. "Wardrobing" (purchasing a new outfit, wearing it for a night on the town, and then... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

some HBS students, he gathered local statistics and followed the development of a peasant cooperative movement. Lodge found that economic development was more accurately seen as psychological and political change. It was therefore... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Fast Answer

Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments

border-top:none; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:none" valign="top"> Grab & go type of statistics on a variety of topics including some product brands, specific technologies and services. Also provide articles and analysis.... View Details

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

the market. But when Lerner and Cao started analyzing the actual performance numbers, they saw that conventional wisdom had it wrong. "Reverse LBOs appear to consistently outperform other IPOs and the stock market as a whole. The positive returns appear to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

wrongdoings that are detected, the real figures are likely higher, he notes. In their statistical models, Heese and his colleagues controlled for variables like local economic conditions and the local fraud environment and found that... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict pollution... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

is not statistically significant at conventional levels. However, we also find that the effect is moderated by employee engagement, such that the gamified training platform improved performance in offices with high employee engagement and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

of HelloBrain.com Intelligent, handheld devices that hold basic information such as personal calendars and statistics have been around for some time, Schreck reminded the group. The great innovation of the Palm, he offered, was that it... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2005
News

Winning Legally

have the ability to change the law to further their business strategy. When statutes or regulations stand in the way of strategic objectives, the most effective route can be to push back in legitimate ways. For example, companies can influence rulings by providing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

2,000 users, homing in on passenger usage data between January and November in 2018. After a rider had been active for three weeks, the authors tracked how—and, more important, when—customers used the service. The researchers then ranked service use times and plugged... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

01 Dec 2016
Blog Post

4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2

developed since starting at HBS. There are a lot of upsides to putting in an application John: Take a chance and apply. Don’t let the stereotypes and statistics scare you. When I first contemplated applying, I read all the “Class... View Details

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

private creditors is positively correlated with growth; and (4) public savings are strongly positively correlated with growth, whereas the correlation between private savings and growth is flat and statistically insignificant. These... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

what's being done and allowing them to see it for themselves," says Buell. "Moving from the 'base case' where we just show statistics to a transparent version of the website that shows the problems that are being addressed,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

related impressive statistic is that 13% of all public research and 23% of all private research in Denmark were funded by the foundation!). Arla Foods is the world’s fourth largest dairy company and the largest organic dairy producer. The... View Details

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

who “drummed” up business and sometimes used drums to attract attention. 15 Sidney A. Sherman, “Advertising in the United States,” Publications of the American Statistical Association , vol. 7, no. 52 (December 1900): 124. The rise of... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Rediscovering America

Because it’s a problem that we could actually solve right now! A statistic from a Washington, D.C., hospital network highlights the seriousness of the situation: Sixty percent of physicians’ time at that hospital system was spent... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2006
News

Academic Cross-Pollination

faculty in 1998. “It took me a while to find my niche.” His on-going research at HBS synthesizes elements of history, sociology, business, and statistics (see sidebar). In the classroom, Fleming has carved out a place for himself helping... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game theory and to his later foundational work... View Details