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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    Economic Studies This paper studies the origins and function of customs and norms that intend to keep women from being promiscuous. Using large-scale survey data from more than 100 countries, I test the anthropological theory that a... View Details
    • 15 Nov 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

    YouTube’s $28.8 billion. It will probably not be able to command that kind of revenue without going outside its present niche. “TikTok may surprise us with innovation in unexpected directions. In particular, it could build on the devotion of its billion users to add... View Details
    Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
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    Levels of Government - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    the policy process. They control different policy tools (e.g., legal, budget) and perform different functions (e.g., creating laws, designing programs). Clarifying the roles and responsibilities of different levels of government is... View Details
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    Business History - Faculty & Research

    safety, morals, and health could be protected. Article Intermediary Functions and the Market for Innovation in Meiji and Taisho Japan By: Tom Nicholas and Hiroshi Shimizu Japan experienced a transformational phase of technological... View Details
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    Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

    function and can be used to assess, evaluate, and strategize your organization's financial health. A finance course will teach you the key levers that drive your company's performance and cover topics such as cash flow , value creation ,... View Details
    • 18 Sep 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Do We Know About Corporate Headquarters? A Review, Integration, and Research Agenda

    Keywords: by Markus Menz, Sven Kunisch & David J. Collis
    • 2019
    • Article

    An Empirical Study of Rich Subgroup Fairness for Machine Learning

    By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
    Kearns et al. [2018] recently proposed a notion of rich subgroup fairness intended to bridge the gap between statistical and individual notions of fairness. Rich subgroup fairness picks a statistical fairness constraint (say, equalizing false positive rates across... View Details
    Keywords: Machine Learning; Fairness; AI and Machine Learning
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    Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    1933, Mayo published The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization . Modern society, he wrote, had destroyed “the belief of the individual in his social function and solidarity with the group.” 11 It would be up to an administrative... View Details
    • 31 Mar 2008
    • HBS Case

    JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis

    couldn't get a hold of us. I had pilots e-mailing me say, 'I'm available, what do I do?'" During the crisis, Charles Mees, JetBlue's CIO, created a database to track crew locations and contact information, later adding new functions... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Air Transportation
    • January 1987
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    Posterior Implementability in a Two-person Decision Problem

    By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
    When a decision rule is implemented using a Bayesian incentive compatible mechanism in which the messages are publicly observable, the players' information is augmented by their observation of each others' strategies. In this paper we study the set of Bayesian... View Details
    Keywords: Incentives; Commitment; Mechanism Design; Decision Making; Information
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    Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

    understand financial statements and communicate financial results. My job is project-based, and I'm currently leading the operational functions of a system-wide IT implementation, a project that affects the daily work of a few thousand... View Details
    • 2023
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    Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse

    By: Martin Pawelczyk, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions in real-world settings, it becomes critical to ensure that individuals who are adversely impacted (e.g., loan denied) by the predictions of these models are provided with a means... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods
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    • 26 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 26

    Publications August 2014 Management Science Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence By: Brooks, A.W., F. Gino, and M.E. Schweitzer Abstract—Although individuals can derive substantial benefits from exchanging information and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    The Exercise and Development of Leadership

    My research in this stream contributes to three recent trends in leadership scholarship. The first is the resurgence of a perspective less preoccupied with leaders' impact on organizational performance and more with their function as sources and symbols of the... View Details

      The Venture Capital Cycle

      In The Venture Capital Cycle, Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner correct widespread misperceptions about the nature and role of the venture capitalist and provide an accessible and comprehensive overview of the venture capital industry. Bringing together fifteen... View Details

      • 01 Dec 2023
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      A More Accommodating Approach

      Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
      Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
      • 26 Sep 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Dangerous Expectations: Breaking Rules to Resolve Cognitive Dissonance

      Keywords: by Celia Moore, S. Wiley Wakeman & Francesca Gino
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Immodest Victims: Victims Who Broadcast Their Victimization Are Seen as Less Morally Virtuous

      By: Nathan Dhaliwal, Jillian J. Jordan, Anoushka Kiyawat and Pat Barclay
      How do people evaluate victims who advertise their victim status? Because such broadcasting can elicit sympathy and support, we propose that declining to broadcast serves as a costly act of modesty: one is withholding a fact about oneself that could garner resources... View Details
      Keywords: Public Opinion; Communication; Perception; Reputation
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      • 29 Mar 2022
      • Book

      5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

      This function of keeping and nurturing values can be more difficult in public companies, where turnover of top leaders is relatively frequent. “Philosophically-wise, families are the key agent for passing on these value sets from one... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne