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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
subscriptions/memberships? Have you only circulated the notice to acquaintances ones that statistically help form our homogenous social circles? Does your job/role description account for a balance of experience and degrees? Does the role... View Details
- 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
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
algorithm it generates to predict income levels based on images for which data is unavailable. When the researchers crunched those numbers, they determined that the image analysis could give a much more accurate prediction for income than other measures. In View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
economists found an elevated level of supervisory stringency during the most recent recession, based on an analysis of bank supervisory ratings. This research concluded that an increase in the level of stringency can have a statistically... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
Three. Should it focus its business on a single sector such as structured products or attack multiple sectors? How could enough skilled analysts be recruited quickly? How would the firm acquire status as a Nationally Recognized 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
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Press, 2008), 91. 27 HBS Dean Donald K. David also established the Army Air Forces Statistical School, which taught officers how to develop improved strategies for military operations by analyzing personnel and equipment. From 1943 until... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
taught by Professor Ross Graham Walker and others, a company’s numbers had value far beyond mere record-keeping. Statistical data could instead be used proactively as a general management tool for analyzing an organization’s production... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
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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
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
labor market. For firms, we document an economically and statistically significant cumulative abnormal return of -0.97% around announcement of dissent. Although the literature has suggested that dissent might be reflective of diverse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy over a two- year period. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- First Look
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