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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
focus on the development of privacy-preserving algorithms, with a particular emphasis on ML systems. These algorithms help safeguard personal data while extracting valuable insights across domains like statistical genetics, personalized... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-010.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 214-083 An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance-2014 Update Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
unbelievable statistics here. 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Half of Americans save less than $100 a week. 40% of Americans have been in situations in the past couple of months where they literally don't know how they're... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
supervisory stringency during the most recent recession is likely to have a statistically significant impact on total loans and loan capacity for several years—approximately 20 quarters—after the onset of the tighter supervisory... View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Photographs from the HBS Archives document the activities of training schools and courses at HBS during World War II, including the Army Air Forces Statistical School, Army Air Forces War Adjustment Course, Army Supply Officers Training... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
that angioplasties and bypass surgeries are funded. Despite compelling statistics that show preventive measures are far more effective and would cost much less than the $2 billion Medicare spends on those surgical procedures each year,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
quantitative approach. There are many admirable things about the way in which finance became more statistically sophisticated over the past twenty or thirty years. But many of the assumptions on which the more elaborate mathematical... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
observation that sparked discussions about financial literacy and empowerment among female leaders. Mary Erdoes (MBA 1993), CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, brought stark statistics to the conversation, noting that while 85... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
trigger government regulators to tighten the screws on the private-equity industry? It’s inevitable that one deal will get in trouble, just purely from a statistical point of view. A lot of negative comments are being made from an odd... View Details
- 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
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
steadily risen across the company. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/product/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-management/an/R1312D-PDF-ENG August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Africa. Even more broadly, one is left with aggregate statistics that both inform and numb. . . . Living in the United States, we may be shocked to learn that so many people in the world live on less than $2.00 per day, or that a quarter... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
period—some 31,160 new ventures listed in the NCCS-GuideStar National Nonprofit Research Database, produced by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. The findings in this second analysis mirrored the first:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
percent penetration) skews to high income, high education households. However, those users don’t spend as much time online as lower educated, lower income households, making the window for catching the attention of the affluent even smaller. “From an advertiser’s... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
example.” Looking at data from the Swedish Companies Registration Office and Statistics Sweden, they found that male executives earn 27 percent more than female executives, on average. The pay gap is smaller at the very top of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
stakes of sitting on a board are statistically higher for women than for men. For example, 90 percent of male board members are married, versus 72 percent of female members, and 90 percent of the men have children, versus 64 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
allocation at a top-tier fund, they're going to go further down the food chain…so I think there's no equilibrating mechanism right now," Sahlman said. "Is that a problem?" "There's a lot of capital out there now trying to be placed," noted... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of... View Details