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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
get people browsing through the stores. Despite what Apple says, the statistics suggest that there is no significant conversion of non-Macintosh users to Macintosh users on the basis of the stores. So, if you think of it as an investment... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
thwart its Level II opponents. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-091_6caacd58-20c1-4257-9be5-204972ad4b4c.pdf December 2014 International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences Negotiations: View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
small-world structures and the emergence and disappearance of giant components in patent collaboration networks. Using statistical models, we test and fail to find evidence that small-world structure (cohesive clusters connected by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
growing numbers of people who live alone? There’s a big difference between living alone and choosing to live alone. The statistics are misleading because they imply that all of those people who live alone are actively choosing to do so.... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
longer—to reach gender equity.” That one, daunting statistic became the impetus for Stark and the HBS Club of Toronto to present a virtual panel discussion, “The Impact of the Pandemic on Gender Equity: Can We Regain the Lost Ground?”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences Author:Lakshmi Iyer Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic research exploring these developments, a number of misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
South Africa at a rate about one-third of that flowing into Latin America or East Asia. Q: According to the statistics on FDI in your new case, in "all countries" FDI is 2.7 percent of GDP. South Africa is 1.5 percent. A:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
analysis"—that with sufficient industry knowledge, market data, and statistical wizardry, "The answer would somehow mysteriously pop out and the right decision would be made. That's just not the way I think the world... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
mishaps. Ian Bund (MBA 1968): I was playing hooker in the middle of the scrum, and [two guys] landed on top of me. I got carted off to the hospital with badly bruised ribs. I needed something to pass the time, so a friend brought over the preparation we had for Monday... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
Performance Indicators (HPIs) they collect. They will try to demonstrate that their buildings are safer than someone else’s space, especially as landlords compete for office tenants. We see this already in posted statistics like... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
choice thus leads subjects to violate the weak axiom of revealed preference (WARP). Friend or Foe? Cooperation and Learning in High-Stakes Games Authors:FFelix Oberholzer-Gee, Joel Waldfogel, and Matthew White Publication:Review of Economics and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
summaries of past environmental performance. In addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
out. These agents are more likely to alter their electronic currency balance on a day (rebalance). In contrast, agents trained in person but who receive summary statistics of transaction volumes or agents who are notified about the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
grants, and a greater chance of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for the magnitude of the earnings surprise, operating and stock return performance, and are significant in a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only after multi-year lags, and the public-facing versions are aggregated to the county or ZIP code level. In contrast, crowdsourced data from online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
financial value. Yet scholars have recently shown that entrepreneurial activity by users is more widespread than previously believed. We present data and statistics documenting the prevalence, technological impact, and economic impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
explains aspects of the scientific method, including experimental design, verification, uncertainty, and statistics and also includes sections on planning research, presenting one’s findings in writing, ethics, and the responsibilities of... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
pre-HRRP readmission rates across samples, we found that declines for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals were statistically indistinguishable from declines in two control samples. Either the HRRP had no effect on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman