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  • 12 Jun 2018
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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
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of longitudinal data on the racial employment composition of every large private-sector workplace in the United States to calculate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2015
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First Look Tuesday

short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning athletics program for an academic institution of higher education. We construct a unique panel dataset from multiple sources and utilize the latest dynamic panel data... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

unavailable at this time. Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence Authors:Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina Abstract We study the effect of bank loan supply through the business cycle using firm-level data from 1990 to 2009. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Finance - Faculty & Research

its peers, Shukla watched the crisis unfold with interest. Should the TfL Pension Fund act quickly to buy cheap gilts while the window was open, or was it time to rethink the fund’s approach to hedging and risk? 2025 Working Paper Fiscal Externalities of View Details
  • 24 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

looking for talent in a tight job market. “A company has to understand that rigidity around job descriptions and work processes artificially constrains the pool of talent that they can access for a position.” The data were culled from... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51460 Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary data on all credit default swap (CDS) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams

transactions among 76 restaurants to investigate whether the gender of managers and workers impacted a team’s ability to handle busy periods. The team also studied training and scheduling data and... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Food & Beverage
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

1990s, many companies introduced ERP systems that captured data at the transaction level. It was natural to think how we could modify ABC systems to benefit from the ready availability of View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage

By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein
How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source... View Details
Keywords: Server Software; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Economics; Value Creation; Measurement and Metrics
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Christina Wallace , DJ DiDonna and Sarah Sasso 2025 Working Paper Trade Within Multinational Boundaries By: Laura Alfaro , Paola Conconi, Fariha Kamal and Zachary Kroff We leverage newly linked data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Help - Alumni

password requirements? A strong password is key to alumni data security. HBS has adopted password requirements to ensure strong alumni passwords. Next time you change your password , you will need to meet the following criteria: Your new... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

citing a December 2020 survey from data firm Cardify. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/jDkUSqXh5u6Gl9G77NLQ][/div] Detailed consumer data for BNPL hasn’t been easy to analyze previously because View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology
  • 30 Apr 2024
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When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

Bridgestone/Firestone (2000), related party transactions and accounting fraud at Enron (2001), accounting fraud at WorldCom (2002), corrupt payments at Siemens (2007), mortgage lending abuses at Countrywide Financial (2006) and Wall... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Sep 2023
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Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

clearly epitomized by the advent and affirmation of the electronic processing and sharing of data at a magnitude and speed that in no way we have seen before. The digital age is enabled by the emergence and adoption of four key... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
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Finance - Faculty & Research

Article Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns By: Robin Greenwood and Andrei Shleifer We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of... View Details
  • 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

made at the precision of $1 or $5 per share is associated with a $4 to $5 million higher expected transaction price than one made at a precision greater than one quarter. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne