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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Analytics and Data Science; Local Range; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Five-Star Research

When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million... View Details
Keywords: April White; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services
  • 01 Aug 2002
  • News

HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein,... View Details
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

subsequent growth into a diversified group. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2520237 Optimal Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

protection than SOEs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51975 December 2016 Harvard Business Review Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces By: Fisman, Ray, and Michael... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Winter 2022
  • Article

Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted

By: Dylan Balla-Elliott, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton
The COVID-19 pandemic led to dramatic economic disruptions, including government-imposed restrictions that temporarily shuttered millions of American businesses. We use a nation-wide survey of thousands of small business owners to establish three main facts about... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Demand Forecasting; Reopening; Health Pandemics; Government Administration; Small Business
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  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

reaping the benefits of FDI (which relate to when FDI will generate growth) and (2) the mechanisms by which FDI creates positive externalities (which relate to how FDI generates growth). Technology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com Authors:Weijia Dai, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee, and Michael Luca Abstract Consumer review websites such as Yelp.com leverage the wisdom of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • June 2021
  • Article

From Predictions to Prescriptions: A Data-driven Response to COVID-19

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Léonard Boussioux, Ryan Cory-Wright, Arthur Delarue, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Driss Lahlou Kitane, Galit Lukin, Michael Lingzhi Li, Luca Mingardi, Omid Nohadani, Agni Orfanoudaki, Theodore Papalexopoulos, Ivan Paskov, Jean Pauphilet, Omar Skali Lami, Bartolomeo Stellato, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Kimberly Villalobos Carballo, Holly Wiberg and Cynthia Zeng
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges worldwide. Strained healthcare providers make difficult decisions on patient triage, treatment and care management on a daily basis. Policy makers have imposed social distancing measures to slow the disease, at... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 02 Jun 2019
  • News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

meetings in San Francisco and switched on the TV to watch the news. For the next six hours I was transfixed,” he explains. “I don’t get emotional very often, but I was overwhelmed.” Back in Boston, fellow HBS faculty member Mike View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

Experiments by Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman In The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data Driven World, View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 09 Feb 2012
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business? In a new study, Assistant Professor Michael Luca shows just how much restaurant reviews on Yelp affect companies' bottom lines. The more difficult... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

$649B in stimulus funds to small businesses. We are targeting these funds to underserved communities and critical supply chains. Justin Crist Lee (MBA 2021), Lucas Santos (MBA... View Details
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Reunions 2024 Reunion Presentations At Reunions, HBS faculty and other thought leaders address a range of issues facing business and society. Program recordings and materials... View Details
  • Article

Financial Analysis of Pediatric Resident Physician Primary Care Longitudinal Outpatient Experience

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Carole H. Stipelman, Brad Poss, Laura Anne Stetson, Luca Boi, Michael Rogers, Caleb Puzey, Sri Koduri, Vivian S. Lee and Edward B. Clark
Objective
To determine whether residency training represents a net positive or negative cost to academic medical centers, we analyzed the cost of a residency program and clinical productivity of residents and faculty in an outpatient primary care practice with or... View Details
Keywords: Academic Medicine; Cost; Children; Graduate Medical Education
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  • 23 May 2019
  • News

Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

CFO: Unefon, Grupo Salinas, and Grupo Elektra 2002 Named CEO, Farmacias Benavides 2003 Named CFO, Vitro 2005 Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum 2007 Cofounds IGNIA 2007 Named Chairman of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

Demo Day | New Venture Competition

Demo Day Semifinalists from both tracks deliver pitches to early-stage investors. New Venture Competition (NVC) Demo Day is a showcase event hosted by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Social... View Details
  • Web

Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

students, with an average fellowship of $43,949. Students Arrive Incoming MBA students moving in to the residence halls. During START, MBA students bond both with their section and their class as a whole. Incoming MBA students are seated... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

insurgent's clear mission and purpose, an unambiguous owner mindset, and a relentless obsession with the front line) can resolve the predictable crises of growth. Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling... View Details