Showing posts with label harvard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label harvard. Show all posts
Sunday, January 14, 2024

"Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?" Freakonomics interviews Max Bazerman and others

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Below is the latest Freakonomics podcast (and transcript), on fraud in academia.  Those most in the headlines weren't available to be in...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Eric Budish on the economics of cryptocurrencies (video of his Harris Lecture at Harvard)

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 If you haven't heard Eric Budish talk about crypto, this is your chance:  here's the video of his Harris Lecture at Harvard: The Ec...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Affirmative action at Harvard and elsewhere, by Roland Fryer

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  As the Supreme Court starts to hear arguments about affirmative action in college admissions, at Harvard and the University of North Carol...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Emmanuel Farhi 1978-2020

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Emmanuel Farhi passed away last week, unexpectedly and tragically.  He was my colleague at Harvard, and we had recently sought to hire him ...
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Harvard admissions on trial--dualing economist expert witnesses, interesting details

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The Chronicle of Higher Ed has the story: Dueling Economists: Rival Analyses of Harvard’s Admissions Process Emerge at Trial There are ma...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Market design class at Harvard taught by Scott Kominers

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If you are a Harvard student, check out Scott Kominer's Fall market design class. Here's the course outline . Market Design ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

A look inside Harvard's admissions process

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College admissions is a matching process--you can't just study at an elite university, even if you can afford the tuition--you first ha...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Unrecognized Single-Gender Social Organizations (USGSO) at Harvard

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Harvard has taken steps to express its repugnance to single-gender social organizations. It is motivated primarily by repugnance to male-on...
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Friday, December 15, 2017

Scott Kominers had a big market design class at Harvard this year

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Scott may eventually educate a high percentage of market designers: here's a picture of his class this year.
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Friday, September 9, 2016

Airbnb consider market design changes to reduce discrimination

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The NY Times has the story: Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts "Airbnb, based in San Francisco, sai...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Harvard and Stanford compared and contrasted, in French: la guerre de l’excellence

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Les Echos has the story: Harvard-Stanford, la guerre de l’excellence , by Lucie Robequain Ms. Robequain spent some time on both campuses...
Friday, January 15, 2016

The photo gallery of retired Harvard economics professors on the Littauer stairway

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Among the many reasons that the Harvard Economics department needs a new or renovated building is that their photo gallery of retired facul...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

University governance, at Harvard

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In The Chronicle of Higher Education, Charles Fried and Bob Mnookin write about the increased centralization of governance at Harvard: The ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Getting into Harvard the hard way, by transferring

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College admissions consists of lots of parts: early, regular, waiting lists, z-lists , transfers... It doesn't appear that transfers are...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Harvard after the return of early admissions

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Harvard Yield for Class of 2016 Soars to 81% " In the first year of Harvard’s renewed early admissions program, the yield for the cla...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Harvard admissions

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Some statistics: Harvard Accepts Record Low of 5.9 Percent to the Class of 2016 "In total, including the 772 students admitted in Dec...
Monday, October 31, 2011

A marketplace for Harvard babysitters

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If you work at Harvard, you might be able to hire a Harvard student as a babysitter. Here's the announcement: Dear Colleague, I am w...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Harvard celebrates first kidney transplant

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In connection with Harvard's 375th anniversary, the Gazette is taking note of some key events:   A transplant makes history--Joseph Murr...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

Instructions are part of a market's design

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Whenever my colleagues and I help design a new marketplace, we're very aware that a part of the market mechanism are the instructions th...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Hockey: the NHL draft is different

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Yesterday's post, with an update at the bottom... Four Harvard Freshmen Selected in NHL Draft " Months before they’ll put on a ...