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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by randomly assigning individuals to 90-minute structured information-sharing sessions as part of a grant funding opportunity. We View Details
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- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
percent higher up-front investment, the lower energy and maintenance costs can offset the expense. And she estimates that larger dwellings can be built for a 0 to 2 percent premium, making them a potential next project for Birchwood... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
in its elements, but the stakes were enormously different. It’s probably the largest private-sector, competitive economic development project in US history.” And it was successful for Moret and the estimated 500 other people who worked on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Letters
repression, and international isolation.” What it fails to mention is the devastation and loss of life of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis caused by U.S.-enforced UN sanctions during the 1990s. The UN estimates that 1 million Iraqis,... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. The Variance of Non-Parametric Treatment Effect Estimators in the Presence of Clustering Authors:Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
most profitable. "Not only are merchandise profits higher under contingent free shipping than under free shipping, but our estimates imply that the firm could derive even higher merchandise profits by increasing both its flat... View Details
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Policy - Business & Environment
and warned that “doubling C02 could increase average global temperature 1°C to 3°C by 2050 A.D.” [11] Exxon’s temperature warning estimate and other industry estimates from that time align precisely with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
when energy is relatively cheap — or mispriced, critics would say, as happens when the deleterious environmental and other costs of energy are excluded. Macomber estimates that in the developed world, at any one time, only 1 percent of an... View Details
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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library
Generate tables and maps based upon desired United States data, including population, age, race, income, employment, and education. Social Explorer Access census data for the United States through the use of interactive maps and reports. American Community Survey (ACS)... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
awareness to the needs of these families. To date, the foundation has provided $33 million in support to 1,600 students. Kim wants to reach all students, but concedes they can be difficult to find. “The government tracks some of that data in chunks, but not all of it.”... View Details
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Isaac Robinson | MBA
modern society. Whether that means using graphs to optimize meeting scheduling, auctions to estimate how a product will be received by the public, or fair allocation rules to determine funding for local schools, the course showed me that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
(Michael Hemment) Maddie may be HBS’s most popular study partner. The sweet-tempered therapy dog makes semiannual visits to Baker Library to provide much-needed stress relief during finals. Last December, an estimated 80 students and... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
of international funding sources for the estimated $50 billion to $60 billion project and work to develop a feasibility study that is focused on the trunk line of the system, the Amazon-Putumayo-Pacific corridor. With degrees in civil... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Spangler Center Groundbreaking
superintendents who had gathered for the occasion. The idea was to guess the correct amounts of the various building materials needed to construct the facility. The numbers are based on estimates from Spangler Center project managers... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
for a low-cost, blockchain-based financial network that would serve some of the estimated 1.7 billion people worldwide who live mostly cut off from financial services. Dyer says Millicent’s payments network will be a purpose-built... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
so—intercollegiate sporting events generated an estimated $2 billion in revenue and $1 billion in profit in 2010. Winning programs prosper in diverse ways including ticket and product sales, alumni donations, and TV contracts. Chung is... View Details
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
inventory policy for each SKU. The fourth test optimizes the profit of each SKU according to the estimated costs of stocking out versus holding inventory. Inventories for some SKUs go up, while others go down, but overall inventories... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
estimates are that a 15 percent tax on reported GAAP profits would be revenue-neutral for the government. A tax with a lower rate on a more sensible base is a central lesson of economics. Legislators would also be restricted to changes in... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
raised an estimated $7 million over the years for the five schools in its immediate area. No, Gehrke didn’t describe a burning ambition to run a flea market in her HBS admissions essay. “The path you start out on is certainly not always... View Details