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Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details

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By: Marlous van Waijenburg

Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details

  • 2022
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The Disagreement Problem in Explainable Machine Learning: A Practitioner's Perspective

By: Satyapriya Krishna, Tessa Han, Alex Gu, Javin Pombra, Shahin Jabbari, Steven Wu and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As various post hoc explanation methods are increasingly being leveraged to explain complex models in high-stakes settings, it becomes critical to develop a deeper understanding of if and when the explanations output by these methods disagree with each other, and how... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods
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Krishna, Satyapriya, Tessa Han, Alex Gu, Javin Pombra, Shahin Jabbari, Steven Wu, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "The Disagreement Problem in Explainable Machine Learning: A Practitioner's Perspective." Working Paper, 2022.
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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2012
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  PublicationsThe Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Authors:Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract We address a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Book

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
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Maurer, Noel, and Carlos Yu. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. Princeton University Press, 2010.
  • 09 Mar 2010
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the Panama Canal to make use of both conventional historical methods and the tools of quantitative analysis, The Big Ditch examines the impact of the Panama Canal on the Republic of Panama, the United States, and the world. Noel Maurer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Mar 2010
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Fahlenbrach Publication:Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming) Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

Automated Text Analysis By: Mankad, Shawn, Hyunjeong "Spring" Han, Joel Goh, and Srinagesh Gavirneni Abstract—Customer reviews submitted at Internet travel portals are an important yet underexplored new resource in obtaining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
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reforming countries are directed towards other reforming countries. Analysis of firm-level responses to the creation of the ASEAN free trade agreement yields results that are consistent with these predictions. Download the paper from SSRN... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2008
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Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

acquiesced to these questionable transactions. Enron's sophisticated risk analysis and control system also experienced serious breakdowns. These breakdowns, along with management's increasing aversion to truth telling, isolated the board... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50814 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
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Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—When does increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Oct 2014
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Harvard Business School Case 515-024 Conjoint Analysis: A Do It Yourself Guide Conjoint Analysis has become one of the most commonly used quantitative market research methods. It has been successfully... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 5, 2024
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A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari
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Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
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Thabane, Alex, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia, and Mohit Bhandari. "A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol." PLoS ONE 19, no. 12 (December 5, 2024).
  • 07 Oct 2014
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difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2000
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Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

an order giver to a team member in an interdependent process." Making A Team Successful In The Face Of Disrupted Routines Through the analysis of detailed qualitative and quantitative data gathered from... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 29 Jan 2013
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analytical expression that reveals the forces determining optimal commodity taxation. We then calibrate the model to evidence on the relationship between skills and preferences and extensively examine the quantitative case for taxes on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2001
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What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

linked with superior outcomes. While they are no guarantee of success, their combined presence sharply improves the odds that you'll make a good decision. Multiple Alternatives. When groups consider many alternatives, they engage in more thoughtful View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
  • 21 Feb 2005
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Is Business Management a Profession?

reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
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