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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
with regards to data, design, and diversity on teams. We’ve discussed the potential stakes of our design intentions. We’ve questioned assumptions that stand to jeopardize our work. We’ve established that a well-equipped, qualified, diverse workforce is a boon to any...
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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
survey a sampling of the research questions these data help to answer. Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
president and COO. Thain labeled as “nonsense” the frequently heard claim in Washington that executive pay plans, particularly lavish bonuses, spurred the excessive risk-taking that ultimately led to the financial meltdown. He advocates...
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- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
CEOs were members of the family that owned the firm; they were labeled "family CEOs" in the study. The remaining third, not related to the owners, were labeled "professional CEOs." (It's important to note...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
think? Original Column The global community faces staggering challenges this century. We spent much of the 20th century learning how to get along with each another. According to data collected and analyzed by Harvard cognitive...
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- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Even as citizens generate more data than ever before, most cities haven’t taken full advantage of that information flow to improve services and become more efficient. “Historically, cities have been moving in analog, trying to measure...
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- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
while Jewish people are the most targeted religious group. According to an article in the Washington Post, hate crimes are grossly underreported, and 90 percent of the country’s approximately sixteen thousand law enforcement agencies choose not to supply View Details
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Re: Gerardine A. Doyle
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52435 CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in Brazil, France, Germany, India, UK, and U.S. using a new...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract— We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
says John. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had been shown the privacy notice.” In another experiment involving a car GPS system, the researchers showed some people a warning about how their...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
innovation becomes clear, and acceptance is the eventual outcome. For patients, movement along this timeline requires a high comfort level with the fact that this new data will not be used against them in any way. Will the recent...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
it a week in advance rather than a day in advance of delivery. Indeed, the data showed that customers tended to order a higher percentage of healthy items (like leafy greens) and a lower percentage of unhealthy items (like candy bars) the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
of Internet advertising on the industry as a whole. According to Silk and his colleagues, changes in the industry's external environment fit into three broad categories: technical, regulatory, and economic. Advances in technology reach well beyond the Internet to...
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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
forthcoming Annual Review of Economics History, Micro Data and Endogenous Growth By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—Economic growth is concerned with long-run changes, and as a result historical View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
David A. Frankel
Data go on a global acquisition tear, buying up Cisco distributors around the globe, and transforming the company into the largest Cisco distributor outside the U.S. He was part of the IPO that raised $1.8 billion and listed the company...
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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Card-holders may choose among several tax settlement and loan options, effectively receiving cash as much as 90 days...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Ariely Publication:Health Affairs 31 (February 2012) Abstract Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
were realized. What we label the CEO-specific Q and past return explains equity issuance, but it does not explain debt issuance, investment, or profitability. Two discontinuity analyses show that the specific share price that the current...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Glass Institute do in producing the index?Sigelman: So the Burning Glass Institute is a research center that advances data-driven solutions at the intersection of the future of work and the future of learning. We work with a whole host of novel View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
products of value to someone. The purpose of this chapter is to build a robust and versatile language that is capable of representing large technical systems. The language is based on elements I have labeled functional components. The...
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Dina Gerdeman