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- 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
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer applicant quality from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
science. It’s the same tools as social science—the experiment, treatment, control, human subjects, statistical inference, using the scientific method. Outside of academia, the happiness field has become fairly polarized. You have the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Review of Economics and Statistics The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data By: De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
survey of randomly selected urban and rural colleges and document statistically significant differences in employment opportunities for rural and urban graduates. Our survey results also indicate that not every firm follows the policy of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
transmit knowledge for a lot of reasons, both in the types of knowledge and the types of ways that they try to do it, and also the degree to which the entrepreneurs have receptors for it. Brian DeLacey: One statistic that still sticks out... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
statistics of two schools, the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Harvard Business School. Last year, fully 68 percent of Stanford’s graduates took jobs in the Western United States. Only 39 percent of Harvard graduates remained... View Details
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
client. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We also quantify the flow benefit to the trustee mutual funds of being included in the client firm's 401(k) plan and find that this inclusion has an economically and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
continues to give me new insights just from the way he views a case here at HBS and when we discuss deals and operating improvement opportunities in my business. It's also a huge benefit to learn from the application of analytical tools that he has developed through... View Details
- 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
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
countries. I find that price levels are identical about 72% of the time. Price changes are not synchronized but have similar frequencies and average sizes. These results have implications for national statistical offices, researchers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
across provinces in the speed of implementation of the reform to identify the impact of the law. We find that the additional land rights led to statistically significant increases in the share of total area devoted to long-term crops and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
significantly outperform those that mix trial activity with the provision of traditional patient care. Second, we find evidence that focus at the divisional level and firm level are substitutes. That is, organizations characterized by divisional focus alone achieve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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