Epsilon Data Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

about these ideas. We gathered thirty years of U.S. patent data and wrote up some code that identifies the inventors and links them to each other for three million patents and two million inventors. Our first cut was to look at the... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

01 Sep 2006
News

Charting the Year Ahead

percentage takes advantage of them. Insightful demographic and psychographic profiles have been developed from alumni survey data that will enable the committee, chaired by Jim Rice (MBA 1986), to recommend segment-specific marketing and... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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Tools & Services | Information Technology

applications and technology products to bring teaching and learning experiences to life. Learning Management Learn more about the HBS Learning Management System services. Polling & Surveys Explore tools to... View Details

May 2024
Article

Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare

Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and... View Details

Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Public Policy; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Policy; Income; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; United States

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Matt Spielman

Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management

01 Dec 2012
News

50 Years & Counting

initiatives. Recently, McGinn has taken a nuanced look at evidence that women in professional service organizations are more likely to be promoted when the firm's leadership includes significant numbers of women. Her analysis of five years of personnel View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

health care system could similarly gather and publish relevant data on health care prices and outcomes. Then corporations could see which clinicians, hospitals, insurers, and others provide the best value. The good ones would thrive, and... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

The CrowdStrike tech security outage in July revealed the true interdependence—and fragility—of global computer systems. Following several high-profile data breaches, policymakers are calling on businesses to do more to fix code... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

01 Dec 2018
News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

market and exit opportunity? Or should NextGen Jane choose the tool most likely to be adopted by ob-gyns to manage their patient populations? The Answers: The idealistic answer is to focus on the gynecological disease that affects the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Staff Directory | Baker Library

Financial databases (Capital IQ, Bloomberg, LSEG, etc.), data gathering, citation management tools (including Zotero, EndNote, and others), Copyright First Responder (questions regarding copyright and fair... View Details

19 Jan 2016
News

Electric Avenues

and 20 international public partners, says program manager Paige Fitzgerald (MBA/MPP 2014): In Los Angeles, it’s working with city government to push out Amber Alerts; in Rio, garbage truck drivers are using traffic View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

necessarily more extreme than at many other schools. Besides, students have access to all kinds of data when they are choosing colleges, so just how much weight would college-bound kids give to a well-publicized scandal like this one?... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

chain management and advanced planning and scheduling software embed more advanced algorithms than their predecessors and offer the possibility of optimizing decisions across an entire supply chain, as opposed to within single firms. 52... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

of innovative leadership. At eBay Germany, the authors found examples of how a maturing company like eBay can retain its innovative spirit. For a holiday promotion, a young project manager and his marketing colleagues launched a "treasure... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Sep 2010
News

Faculty Books

The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation

June 2021 (Revised February 2023)
Case

MicroStrategy: Accounting for Cryptocurrency

By: Jonas Heese and Annelena Lobb

On February 15, 2021, Alina Moss, an analyst who covered the technology company MicroStrategy, pondered a rise in MicroStrategy’s share price. Moss had dialed into the company earnings call. When it ended, Moss had more questions than answers. MicroStrategy had... View Details

Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Share Price; Electronic Commerce; Intangible Assets; Assets; Accounting; Financial Statements; Financial Management; Financial Reporting; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce

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01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

calculation also comes into play. Ferguson faulted widely used mathematical risk models for failure to build in historical data reaching back more than five years. “The problem with only five years of data... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

Melody Koh

building and leading teams across Product Management, Product Design, and Data Science. Previously, Melody was a Product Manager at Fab.com and the founder/CEO of a seed-funded wine subscription e-commerce... View Details

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Services & Support | Baker Library

classroom, in the library, online, and with our partners across HBS. Help Center Frequently asked research questions and tips. Ask a Librarian Submit your question or set up a research consultation with a member of our team. Research & View Details

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Mutual Funds: Fees

has historical data on mutual fund prices and fees. In WRDS, go to CRSP > Quarterly update > Mutual Funds > Fund Summary. Set date range and enter mutual fund codes (use code lookup or upload an existing file).... View Details

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