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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
over a quarter of adults — 27 percent — have a very close family member or friend who has served in the current military effort in Iraq or Afghanistan. And it is not only in combat that so little is being asked of America as a whole. View Details
Keywords: Government
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
examining corporate and nonprofit growth for close to 1,000 communities over the period from 1987 to 2002. In addition to the interviews for this study, we have also created a database that enables us to understand the statistical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty by Jeff Madrick (MBA 1971) Knopf By official count, more than one in six American children live below the poverty line. But statistics alone tell... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
jobs while re-credentialing herself as a nurse.” After high school, Mbanusi earned his Associates degree at Collin County Community College before transferring to Cornell University where he majored in policy analysis and was exposed to poverty View Details
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- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
crisis of 2008-2009, emerging-market governments have increasingly restricted foreign capital inflows. The data show a statistically significant drop in cumulative abnormal returns for Brazilian firms following capital control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
market. We present statistics on the activity in these market mechanisms and present survey evidence that both mechanisms have facilitated matches. The paper concludes by discussing the emergence of platforms for transmitting job market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0701H Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D Authors:Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). (Earlier... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
response in a robust way, using rigorous statistical analysis. Q: In general, what were your conclusions at this stage of your research? A: Previous research on disruptive technology suggested that that challenge was basically one of... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
figures of COVID-19. These are simply statistical comparisons of a current readout compared to historic trends. The same techniques can be used to quantify healthy building performance and changes over time. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
Predictors badly mistake self-confidence for competence in data analysis. He argues for predictions: (1) expressed in terms of probabilities (as in Bayesian statistical methods and weather forecasts), (2) revisited and revised as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could increase to more than 90,000 doctors by 2025. Meanwhile, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Robert C. "Lifetime Portfolio Selection Under Uncertainty: The Continuous-Time Case." Review of Economics and Statistics 51, no. 3 (August 1969): 247-257. ** Merton, Robert C. "A Model of Contract Guarantees for Credit-Sensitive, Opaque... View Details
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
losing teams have star players, but those players often play for themselves, for their own statistics and career, and don’t really care whether their team actually wins games, as I showed in my book Confidence: How Winning Streaks and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
function and authority to CEOs. Because coaching records, player statistics and team performance are readily accessible, measurement and comparison of organizational performance in the NFL is reliable and consistent. Football coaches use... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29
to deploy a system of statistical control that had been developed and applied successfully in the management of the Army Air Forces. Henry Ford II had recently assumed control of his grandfather's troubled automotive empire and was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
Curriculum Services Specialist Curriculum & Learning Services Inku Subedi Information Research Specialist Baker Research & Data Services Area of expertise: Database management, statistical analysis, and visualization using STATA, SAS,... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
does Charles Darwin, who wrote that cooperative social behavior was a trait of survival and prosperity. Pearlstein ends with a beautiful quote from Robert Kennedy from 1968, that the GNP statistic our country so relies on captures... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
focus.” Wilson switched his course of study from physics to philosophy to math. But he found some direction through Howard Raiffa, a statistics professor who was moving over to HBS to develop a program in what would come to be known as... View Details