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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
education data company BrightBytes found that an estimated 30 percent of ed tech licenses that schools purchased were never used in the classroom, and nearly 98 percent weren’t used “intensely”—that is, students got less than 10 hours of...
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- 31 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
in two years, we have the summer off to pursue either our own startups or an internship. I spent my summer at Facebook as a Strategy Intern, helping Facebook scale its data center capacity effectively and...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
bit of attention; 96 people submitted 410 programs, and 20 of the contestants had ideas that exceeded researchers’ expectations. The best solution increased the accuracy of the data from 91 percent to 97 percent and increased processing...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
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Racial Equity Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
Brookings Institution; Carr Center Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Examining ways to create effective DEI strategies In today’s divided nation, Ray plans to advance his research how businesses and other organizations respond to...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
They also cite Pew Research Center data showing that trust in the federal government has gone from 77 percent in 1964 to 17 percent in 2019. But even in the face of these difficult odds, Gehl and Porter...
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Young, Susan
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Cagé, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
breakthrough technology. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606114 Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair Harvard Business School Case 406-111 Adrian Ivinson...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
Abstract—Using U.S. data from 1929 to 2013, we show that elevated credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 is associated with a decline in economic activity in years t and t + 1. Underlying this result is the existence of predictable mean...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
Unit, and faculty chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS. For the past several years, Amabile, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University, has been analyzing findings from her longitudinal research on...
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- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
misconduct Minor is no stranger to the topic of risk preference. Before entering academia he launched his own investment firm. He constructed lawmakers’ risk preferences using data compiled by the Center for...
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by Roberta Holland
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
“Contact tracing is a 500-year-old solution. It was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR...
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- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
data (Miguelez and Fink, 2013), Figure 1 shows that America received more than half of migrating inventors from 2000-2010. Figure 1: Migration of inventors, 2000-2010 Immigrants can be found in times of success and times of crisis....
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by William R. Kerr
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
development in entrepreneurial studies at HBS. Rock’s gift, which will establish The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, is the largest ever directed toward supporting an academic program at HBS. “This very important gift supports an...
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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge
that is not connected with any specific personal identity, such as data about usage and service operation. The following summarizes the types of information that we may collect. SYSTEM INFORMATION, IP ADDRESSES AND REFERRERS When you...
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- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak,...
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Filippo Mezzanotti
was particularly intrigued by the incredible opportunities that econometric techniques provide for understanding the reality around us. During my Master’s at Bocconi I worked on several research projects at the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research...
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- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
rapidly changing. Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl’s new research explores the business opportunities hidden among the stars, particularly in data from and through space, but also in tourism, manufacturing,...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a...
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April White
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Integration, Not Intellectual Property The "great embarrassment" of twentieth-century medicine, despite its many strides, is that most therapeutics were directed at symptoms, not causes, said Eric S. Lander, a leader of the Human Genome Project and director...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
employing an engineering team to create a web application that applies natural language processing, machine learning, big data, and data visualization algorithms to make conflicts with trademarked names immediately visual, accessible, and...
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Julia Hanna