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  • 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
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

get-out-the-vote efforts. We do not find any between-party differences in the effectiveness of outside advertising. Lastly, we also find a moderate but statistically significant carryover effect of campaign activities, indicating the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

stakeholder reactions and provide valuable feedback. Once metrics have been developed, data on these indicators must be collected and statistical analysis, such as multiple regression, should be performed to analyze and test the validity... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

Periodical:Marketing Letters (forthcoming) Abstract We review the discussion at a workshop whose goal was to achieve a better integration among behavioral, economic, and statistical approaches to choice modeling. The workshop explored how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate
  • 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
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

algorithms and statistical analysis to detect problems such as leaks, bursts, and faulty equipment within a water utility's infrastructure. Such problems caused significant water and energy loss at many utilities, led to service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Commerce and the High Level Reflection Group on Health Statistics of the OECD. Jens studied medicine at the Universities of Hannover, Bonn, Athens, Patras, and Kiel and received his doctoral degree from Christian-Albrechts-University... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

the first-differenced advertising series is plausibly exogenous over the sample period. We find that advertising has a positive and statistically significant effect on expected revenues, but that the effect varies strongly across movies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2024
  • News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

have much math intensity, might want to get a minor in data science or statistics or something like that, that would make them a little bit more likely to get a college-level job after they finish. Kerr: Yeah, I can imagine the educator... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2024
  • News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... 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
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services
  • 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
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

the GFC, firms with higher leverage have Z-scores that are closer to the financial distress range. The data also corroborate two macro-related hypotheses: first, that leverage interacted with currency depreciation had a statistically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

sharing system recording employees’ creative work—a control system often used to promote local experimentation—on the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. While, on average, the mere introduction of the information sharing system did not... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and opportunity gaps between urban and... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

across the major assignee groups. In addition, it appears that patents assigned to individuals and associated with non-practicing entities (NPEs) cite less academic work than those assigned to non-NPE corporations. While not statistically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

note presents statistics on private equity exits and discusses important issues relating to the most common exit routes. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/private-equity-exits/an/213112-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne