Peter Coles
Biographic Data
| ID | 8747982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Coles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Coles |
| SIGNATURE | COLES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5535-2850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lead times in flux
Short-term changes in booking behaviors can significantly undermine naive forecasting methods in the travel and hospitality industry, especially during periods of global upheaval. Traditional metrics like average or median lead times capture only broad trends, often missing subtle yet impactful distributional shifts. In this study, we introduce a normalized L1 (Manhattan) distance to measure the full distributional divergence in Airbnb booking le…
Seeing the Olympics
Collection of articles and photo-essays from international researchers and photographers (inc. Chris Dorley-Brown, Paul Seawright) commissioned and edited/curated to mark the Olympics
The Job Market for New Economists
This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our Committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an expression of special interest to up to two employers p…
Cosmology
Written in simple and accessible language, this non-technical introduction to cosmology, or the creation and development of the universe, explains the discipline, covers its history, details the latest developments, and explains what is known, what is believed, and what is purely speculative. In addition, the author discusses the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark …
Einstein and the total eclipse
The Job Market for New Economists
This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our Committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an expression of special interest to up to two employers p…
Einstein and the total eclipse
Cosmology
Written in simple and accessible language, this non-technical introduction to cosmology, or the creation and development of the universe, explains the discipline, covers its history, details the latest developments, and explains what is known, what is believed, and what is purely speculative. In addition, the author discusses the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark …
The Job Market for New Economists
This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our Committee. First, job market applicants now have a signaling service to send an expression of special interest to up to two employers p…
Seeing the Olympics
Collection of articles and photo-essays from international researchers and photographers (inc. Chris Dorley-Brown, Paul Seawright) commissioned and edited/curated to mark the Olympics
Lead times in flux
Short-term changes in booking behaviors can significantly undermine naive forecasting methods in the travel and hospitality industry, especially during periods of global upheaval. Traditional metrics like average or median lead times capture only broad trends, often missing subtle yet impactful distributional shifts. In this study, we introduce a normalized L1 (Manhattan) distance to measure the full distributional divergence in Airbnb booking le…
Economics (2 works) · 523.1 (1 work) · Albert Einstein (1879-1955) (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Auction Theory and Applications (1 work) · Big Bang (1 work) · Big bang theory (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Chemistry (1 work)