Chief Data Officer - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

team with data scientists and others trained in computer science, math, statistics, and physics, including many who held doctorates. To attract the best people, Target knew it had to keep at least part of its View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

17 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

Nanda Abstract Using loan-level data from Mexico, we study the relationship between the organizational structure of banks and the terms of lending to small businesses. We find that banks with decentralized lending structures—where branch... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Feb 2012
HBS Seminar

Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

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Chase Hall | About

offering single rooms with private baths. More than 80 percent of HBS students live on campus, taking advantage of the proximity to classes, extensive academic and social resources, and opportunities for peer learning. In addition, Chase accommodates various... View Details

11 Oct 2023
News

Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

negative health outcomes, including heart disease—Wu says this is the first study to analyze the impact on the innovation generated by firms and their workers. The research team analyzed a sample of 3,445 inventors and 1,180 firms in California and New England, drawing... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

president of Jobs for the Future; Natalie McCullough (MBA 2000), president and chief commercial officer of Guild Education; and Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University. View more content... View Details

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Women at HBS - Alumni

and mobilizes professionals who deliver strategic and tactical advice to a wide range of clients. Chief , cofounded by Carolyn Childers (MBA 2008) , supports New York—based women in their journey to executive leadership. The private... View Details

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

to the CEO. In many cases, the chief legal officer should be a member of the top management team who is expected to weigh in on all issues, not just represent the legal function. Q: What managerial levels... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking research with micro-data from these labor platforms. We undertake new empirical analyses of Upwork data regarding 1) the alignment of micro- and macro-level approaches... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Regression Line Forecasting Interpreting the Regression Output Performing Regression Analyses Forecasting Home Video Units Featured Exercises Identify the best fit line for a data set and interpret its equation through an analysis of... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

Choudhury and Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on the long-term lessons of the global remote-work moment Meal Plan Inspire Brands Chief Growth Officer Christian Charnaux and investor Keith Pascal of... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Pet Project

Artigas (MBA 2009) is the chief commercial officer at Hologram Sciences, a startup incubator and accelerator in health and wellness. I’d counsel Katie against moving into retail. But if she does, converting... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

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Terrill L. Drake | About

Terrill L. Drake Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Bio Terrill L. Drake is the inaugural Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at the... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

past decade by Private Equity International magazine and one of the ten most influential academics in the institutional investing world by Asset International's Chief Investment Officer magazine. He... View Details

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

and teaching on risk management, we identify three categories of risk and elaborate on the ways companies can identify and mitigate them, with particular emphasis on strategy execution risks. Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk—Part II: The View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

incidents amounted to about 5 percent of the pool of workers studied over the three-year period. “If I was [studying] paper clip stealing and all that, then it should probably be 75 percent,” Minor says. Minor’s co-author, Michael Housman, View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Courses MOC Affiliate Network MOC Course at Harvard The New CEO Workshop MOC Affiliate Network MOC Affiliate Network The MOC... View Details

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

breaking even. My biggest concern was that I couldn’t guarantee my staff’s safety. I want my staff to be safe. If my restaurant survives, but half my staff gets sick, that’s not worth it.” Keith Pascal, former chief concept View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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