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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
conjunction with ICCs to make more robust inferences about expected returns. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1967706 The Challenges and Enhancing Opportunities of Global Project Management: Evidence from Chinese and Dutch...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
recent years. Says Kominers, “It’s always nice when your research checks out with the view outside your window.” Research into action While their study didn’t necessarily look at the causes of development, Kominers says it’s a fair View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
press) Abstract In contrast to using controlled laboratory experiments, which offer a clear method for inferring cause-effect relationships, I will be using data from three personal stories to provide opinion and analysis. I will tell the...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
mean-variance optimization with sample means and covariances. The Bayesian inspired Black-Litterman model is described after introducing the intuition of the Bayesian approach to inference in a univariate setting. Purchase this note:...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
indicated which topics were being searched and created content accordingly. Demand treated its 5,000 online articles published per day as an investment, not a cost, a reversal of the traditional media model. In addition to being able to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
whatever information they have about consumers’ price knowledge, drawing inferences from gender if that is all they have to go on, but disregarding gender if provided more direct information on consumers’ price expectations,” the...
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- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
retailers might be one of the factors behind the recent TFP slowdown experienced by the industry in the U.K. Negotiation Analysis: From Games to Inferences to Decisions to Deals Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 25,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
information about inventors' immigration status or ethnicities, they do contain the inventors' names. By utilizing name-matching software, the researchers could infer the ethnicity of inventors at any given firm. An inventor named Chang...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
consumer's expected welfare. One way to think of this is to ask whether a better-informed consumer would move in the directions suggested by prescriptive models. Generally, I predict that as a consumer received more information, they would behave more compatibly with...
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by Max H. Bazerman
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions By: Lockwood, Benjamin, and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract—We use official data and standard optimal tax conditions to infer the positive and normative judgments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous search not only for confirming...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
(forthcoming) Abstract Abarbanell and Lehavy (2006) examine the effect of distributional properties of earnings and forecast data used by researchers who investigate 'Street' earnings. They perform a large number of analyses, and emphasize that care must be taken in...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
at scale. In social media, that is very difficult to do. It's very hard to know what people care about with respect to buying things, because you are inferring intent, you're not taking intent directly from the consumer," said...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
chooses to found a nonprofit instead of a firm, because this is more likely to lead to success, what can be inferred about the state of the software market? Organizational theorists argue that nonprofit foundations are created to protect...
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by Mallory Stark
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
deeper survey about their careers. Why was it that there were relatively few of these women in the very high income brackets, and many, many more in the lower income brackets? What was going on in their lives? I found out, of course—and you could View Details
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by Mallory Stark
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
overworked lifestyle, rather than a leisurely lifestyle, has become an aspirational status symbol. A series of studies shows that the positive inferences of status in response to busyness and lack of leisure are driven by the perceptions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
cash at what time? How is risk allocated? What are the incentives of all parties to the deal now and given reasonable scenarios into the future? Who will be attracted by the deal? What can be inferred from how people respond to the deal...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
Law & Economics: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 Authors:David A. Moss, Jonathan B. Lackow Abstract In the study of law and economics, there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
customer. "Sometimes it makes sense to have a conversation with customers to find out how satisfied they are, and there are other times when the vendor might be better off drawing inferences from observations of actual customer...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
age, gender, height, and race. The most provocative, however, is for genetics. Once we know and understand genetic information better, we could, in principle, do a very good job of inferring individuals' innate abilities from the genetic...
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