Data Generators - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves

nonprofit conducts field research, oversees data collection and processing, and presents clients with key findings, program implications, and implementation recommendations and tools. “The data we View Details

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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

coursework. That helps our information research staff to understand the context of your question. Research topics Suggested Resources Company/Competitors Capital IQ Profiles and data on public, private companies and investment firms such... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Taiwan

tips: At the top of the page under Region/Country, deselect all and re-select your GEO country. Then enter industry or company keywords. Can search in multiple languages. Statista Useful for: country specific View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty Krishna Palepu and Paul Healy, in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Demographics: population statistics: non-US

href="https://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Databases/World-Development-Indicators" target="new">World Development Indicators. Select a country or countries, and follow the screen to generate your own statistical report. Try the View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning

top-down or laissez-faire management by the general manager; poor coordination across functions, businesses, or borders; lack of effective and honest vertical communication; and inadequate leadership skills and development throughout the... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

data analytics. Many commercial marketers, Coca-Cola for example (with more than 99 million Facebook likes), are leveraging social media much more effectively than Trump to better understand their customers.At the same time, Trump has... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

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Online AI Course | HBS Online

earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand the evolving AI landscape Discover diverse applications of AI, machine learning, predictive modeling, and data science Explore ethical AI-related... View Details

Morton H. Meyerson

Meyerson is recognized as the operational and financial genius of Electronic Data Systems (EDS). During his CEO tenure, EDS grew from a $200 million consulting business into a $4 billion large-scale systems consulting enterprise View Details

Keywords: Services

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HBS Course: Private Equity Finance

fund performance. Generous data download limit. Pitchbook
Information on companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the private investment lifecycle. Limited downloading... View Details

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

Even as citizens generate more data than ever before, most cities haven’t taken full advantage of that information flow to improve services and become more efficient. “Historically, cities have been moving... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

26 Feb 2018
News

Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space using View Details

07 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

Businesspeople understand that not all customers are created equal—the 80-20 rule suggests that over time a small percentage of a company's customer base can generate a high percentage of its sales and profit. Models for calculating... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services

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REITs (real estate investment trusts)

Where do I find information on real estate investment trusts (REITs)? General Background: National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts: Produces the global and domestic indices for... View Details

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

brainstorming, and research, it became clear that despite its enormous value, COVID-19 policy data at the more granular county level was virtually nonexistent. In response, HBS MBA students teamed up with Hikma Health to crowdsource the... View Details

11 Feb 2019
Blog Post

John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”

machine learning tool to help small businesses identify promising business opportunities. “Google has useful information on foot-traffic patterns, plus satellite imagery and other data that can help entrepreneurs select the most promising... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

01 Mar 2015
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Research Brief: Political Capital

Chung and doctoral student Lingling Zhang compare the efficacy of the two most common forms of campaigning: flooding the airwaves with advertising and building an elaborate get-out-the-vote ground operation. Chung and Zhang looked at 18,650 View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

06 Oct 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)

role sits at the intersection of R&D and Manufacturing. Once a high-potential drug candidate is identified, several critical milestones must be met prior to marketing a medicine. These milestones include generating View Details

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Special purpose acquisition companies

Business Review article: SPACs: what you need to know. Additionally, LSEG Workspace, Pitchbook, Bloomberg, and and Capital IQ provide data on SPACs: In LSEG... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Fueling Innovation

experimenting with generative artificial intelligence. In recent years, enhancements to the program have included Short Intensive Programs that enable students to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore new topics,... View Details

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