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- 02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History
movement. “Let’s look for evidence,” she says, drawing them back to the document each has in hand. She’s hoping they’ll discover the statistics in Exhibit 4 showing the divide between New York’s rural and urban communities. One student...
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April White
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Social Enterprise | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
The Foundation Directory Online Contains information about the largest 10,000 public and private foundations in the U.S. and links to foundation web sites. Check Harvard Availability Giving USA /citations/giving-usa Ref. AS 911 .G45 in Stamps Reading Room.Compendium of...
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- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
knowingly: Money can’t buy you a happy ride. But looking at the statistics more closely reveals a more nuanced reality. The vehicles traded in are often baseline models of those prestige brands, favored more by aspirational buyers than...
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- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
the sale right away and improve the chance of attaining club membership. In the paper, Larkin uses actual choices of hundreds of salespeople facing this decision to statistically estimate the average salesperson's "willingness to pay" for...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
other time-sucking tasks reported greater life satisfaction. In the United States, for example, buying time increased happiness about 0.77 on a 10-point scale, which may not seem like much, but it is statistically significant, Whillans...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Why HBS? - Doctoral
including field studies, large-scale statistical analysis, consumer panel research, behavioral experiments and theoretical and empirical modelling. Support is available for methodological and statistical...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
inflation statistics rarely match our own experience? Does the country always benefit from infrastructure investments? Who really pays the taxes and costs imposed on businesses? Why do some things that make GDP rise also make living...
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Agribusiness | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
/citations/united-states-department-of-agriculture-usda Provides access to news, reports, analysis, and statistics focusing on national and international agricultural issues. The USDA publishes the Census of Agriculture(conducted every 5...
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- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
"transactional" leaders. Level One: Sociopath At the base of the model is the person who literally serves no one: the Sociopath. The Sociopath, afflicted with what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...
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by Mitch Maidique
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
statistics about how strategy formulation is so often disconnected from strategy execution. What is an office of strategy management, and when and why is it needed? What are its typical activities? How it is distinct from a strategic...
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by Martha Lagace
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Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE)
Business, Government, and the International Economy is a course about how the world works. More specifically, BGIE (pronounced “biggie”) is a course of study through which we seek to understand better the economic, political, and historical forces that determine the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
indicate a range of expenses, typically measured by the cost of the support department as a percentage of total revenue or the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees per billion dollars of revenue. Hackett presents summary View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
advertisers. They were especially likely to spend in areas where trials are decided by juries, rather than bench trials (i.e., decided by judges), where advertising increases were statistically zero. “You are not buying billboards to...
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- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
“overfitting” a statistical model, ensuring the model hits every historical data point and thus making it overly specific and lacking room for future variables. Another problem can develop with miscalibration, failing to consider whether...
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R - Research Computing Services
Workshops & Technical Talks R 6ms RCS presents numerous workshops on R, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and...
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Data Practices - Research Computing Services
with how to optimize your data generally and for specific software packages. Data Tips & Toolkits RCS has compiled an array of packages and tools that can help you with your data wrangling, web scraping, and statistical analysis, among...
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- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
the monetary incentives increased it by 13 percent. Combining the two interventions boosted the total by a small but statistically insignificant amount over the structured meetings alone. After the study period ended, however, something...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
behave more peacefully in the barnyard, leading to a higher yield of eggs and meat for the farm. The ability of the case authors to recognize this device as a solution to a production problem was extremely clever, and the statistical...
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Compensation by Industry/Position/Location
position. A somewhat unique feature of Glassdoor.com is that it provides details of salary, bonuses, and other compensation for actual positions and titles at specific companies. HBS MBA Recruiting - Data and Statistics This...
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- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
of tests to make its own estimations. The computer had no way of parsing the language in the jokes, nor did it follow a model indicating what features made a joke funny. Instead, it relied on “collaborative filtering” algorithms to learn which sample jokes were View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman