Entries Tagged as ‘Methodology’

September 25, 2008

How to prove a manager’s opinion?

Ian Ayres presents two main methods in his book “Super Crunchers” of rationally managing business: regression analysis and randomized tests – both of course with large samples. I’ve previously written about a specific correlation (within regressions) and how interesting research in that area would be. However, for academics without proper investors, this is mostly not [...]

August 21, 2008

Correlation of talent management investments with financial performance

Nice idea. IBM’s Institute for Business Value and the Human Capital Institute did the math reports Seeds of growth. What they determined is what you would expect: invest in talent management… Surprising: Especially the small companies seem to have an advantage in talent management (employees were asked).
I like this “number crunching” as the book Super [...]