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  • 08 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

because of poor eyesight, McNamara wanted to be close to the action in 1943 and helped man the US Office of Statistical Control in London, where he applied the statistical... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 22 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

"waterfall" method in which each step of the process is completed in turn by a separate worker. By sharing mistakes across the process, the customer and project team members benefit individually... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Auditing Predictive Models for Intersectional Biases

By: Kate S. Boxer, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
Predictive models that satisfy group fairness criteria in aggregate for members of a protected class, but do not guarantee subgroup fairness, could produce biased predictions for individuals at the intersection of two or more protected classes. To address this risk, we... View Details
Keywords: Predictive Models; Bias; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

flat and statistically insignificant. These empirical facts contradict the conventional wisdom and constitute a challenge for the existing theories on upstream capital flows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November–December 2024
  • Article

Outcome-Driven Dynamic Refugee Assignment with Allocation Balancing

By: Kirk Bansak and Elisabeth Paulson
This study proposes two new dynamic assignment algorithms to match refugees and asylum seekers to geographic localities within a host country. The first, currently implemented in a multi-year pilot in Switzerland, seeks to maximize the average predicted employment... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Refugees; Geographic Location; Employment
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  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

turning to appraisers, actuaries, and evaluators, whether internal, external, or a combination. The Competitive Imperative of Learning Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • June 2020
  • Article

Real-time Data from Mobile Platforms to Evaluate Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Kevin Alvarez, Arielle Dror, Emerson Wenzel, Catharina Hollauer and Sooji Ha
By displacing gasoline and diesel fuels, electric cars and fleets reduce emissions from the transportation sector, thus offering important public health benefits. However, public confidence in the reliability of charging infrastructure remains a fundamental barrier to... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Infrastructure; Behavior; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers
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  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

method for identifying economically related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

The political bent of the neighborhood where they grew up—and especially where they spent their teen years. Beyond just parental influence, environmental factors such as friends, teachers, and media environment play a View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
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By: Ashley V. Whillans
Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

other end of the spectrum, researchers can obtain false positives by running statistical tests over and over until they find the result they are looking for, or by excluding data after looking at how doing... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education
  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

of such interviews can be used to design more comprehensive surveys. And properly designed surveys, when subjected to careful statistical analyses, can yield further insights into unconscious consumer... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

strategy and to learn from actions taken about the effectiveness of changes made. Its focus is on the development of a high-commitment culture. Its means consist of high involvement, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

choice, and non-traditional methods for estimating models. An agenda for important future work in these areas is also proposed. Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

collect the data, and then expect machine learning methods to spit out insight for you.” “We tend to think that when we have all this rich data... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

applications, internet and mobile communications, and AI, especially when tied to machine learning and deep... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino

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