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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Efficient Discovery of Heterogeneous Quantile Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments via Anomalous Pattern Detection

By: Edward McFowland III, Sriram Somanchi and Daniel B. Neill
In the recent literature on estimating heterogeneous treatment effects, each proposed method makes its own set of restrictive assumptions about the intervention’s effects and which subpopulations to explicitly estimate. Moreover, the majority of the literature provides... View Details
Keywords: Causal Inference; Program Evaluation; Algorithms; Distributional Average Treatment Effect; Treatment Effect Subset Scan; Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Taxes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from JGTRRA's Treatment of International Dividends

By: Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
This paper investigates how taxes influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Financial Markets; International Finance; Investment Portfolio; Government Legislation; Taxation; United States
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  • February 2011
  • Article

Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice

By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA) of 2003. An open-economy after-tax capital asset... View Details
Keywords: Dividends; Portfolio Choice; Taxes; Tax Treaties; Foreign Portfolio Investment; Taxation; Lawfulness; Economy; Price; Equity; Stocks; Investment Portfolio; Opportunities; Behavior; United States
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  • 28 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

and effective in preventing severe disease, and their accelerated review will go down in history as having saved millions of lives. But COVID vaccines weren’t the first medical products to be brought to market through an expedited... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

    Rational Habit Formation

    Regular handwashing with soap is believed to have substantial impacts on child health in the developing world. Most handwashing campaigns have failed, however, to establish and maintain a regular practice of handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests... View Details

    • Article

    Describing Wait Time Bottlenecks for ED Patients Undergoing Head CT

    By: Jonathan G. Rogg, Robert S. Huckman, Michael Lev, Ali Raja, Yuchiao Chang and Benjamin White
    Study objectives: Facing increased utilization and subsequent capacity and budget constraints, EDs must better understand bottlenecks and their effect on process flow to improve process efficiency. The primary objective of this study was to identify bottlenecks in... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Bottleneck; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Health Industry; United States
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    • 13 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: September 13

    2011 Abstract The contribution of culture to organizational performance is both substantial and quantifiable. This book presents the results of field research that demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

    Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 28 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

    here we investigate the effects of time. We show that when social influence is intermittent it provides the benefits of constant social influence without the costs. Human subjects solved the canonical traveling salesperson problem in... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 26 Jan 2024
    • Blog Post

    HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy

    dendritic cells would be the coach responsible for telling the T-cells what to attack and what not to attack. Guadian Bio develops a rare subset of dendritic cells critical for activating killer T cells which can be designed to target... View Details
    • Web

    Profiles - MBA

    people together, and shape the future. Find Shlomo on LinkedIn . BIOENGINEERING (SB) QUINCY 2021 Cohort 3 Eva Cai "As a perpetual learner and bioengineer, I am excited to explore how business perspectives can shape and improve the View Details
    • 25 Nov 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: November 25, 2008

    person's view of the water privatization (relative to other privatizations) was 16% more negative if he/she was read a vignette with some of the negative statements about the water privatization that Argentina's President expressed during the nationalization process.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 20 Oct 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: October 20

    and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 03 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

    ventures. Specifically, we argue and show that although cultural beliefs that disassociate women from commercial activity may result in female social venture founders being less likely to use commercial activity than their male counterparts, these View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Strategic Management Division (STR) of the Academy of Management with Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson for "Work-from-anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographic Flexibility." Prithwiraj Choudhury : Finalist for the 2020 HBR... View Details
    • Web

    2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    viewed as “decision factories,” in which effective leaders are “decision architects,” enabling those around them to make wise, ethical choices consistent with their own interests and the organization’s highest values. Turning the Great... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2008
    • News

    Mara Aspinall

    not just one disease but ten or fifteen different diseases, each requiring its own subset of treatments, as determined by both patient and tumor DNA. The future pharmaceutical business model needs to support the development of View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
    • 08 Apr 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

    interrelated. People who have studied this industry for a long time have come up with a number of feasible ideas to get at the cost problem, including high-deductible insurance and health savings accounts. But until we make sure that the View Details
    Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health
    • 01 Mar 2009
    • News

    A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

    until we make sure that the treatments and services consumers are getting are effective and affordable, changing the way we consumers pay for the services doesn’t fix anything. What we need is a system of... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance
    • 27 Feb 2024
    • Blog Post

    Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)

    dendritic cells would be the coach responsible for telling the T-cells what to attack and what not to attack. Guadian Bio develops a rare subset of dendritic cells critical for activating killer T cells which can be designed to target... View Details