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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

extraction with a nice Python wrapper Camelot : a Python package that extracts tables from PDFs Fuzzy Matching Python Python’s dedupe package supports fuzzy matching using machine learning:... View Details

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John Speer

best way to take the civilian world by storm.” Classes as intense as B-2 flight briefings John considered other MBA programs, but HBS stood out “for its emphasis on leadership,” which matched his goal of becoming a corporate CEO. “I can... View Details

16 Dec 2021
News

A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

to community needs due to the pandemic. —Taru Kapoor (MBA 2015) general manager, Tinder & Match Group. To address the pandemic-induced mental health crisis among its millions of young users, Tinder partnered with Visit Health and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Reform, taught by HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who later served on Given's board. And Childress, now at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—which invested heavily in Hall's Growth Fund—has provided funding for a charter run by View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

February 2022
Case

NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

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28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

an impact in a wide range of industries. Q: How has this area changed over the years since your first visit? A: While Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong have always had a strong bias for entrepreneurship and global competitiveness (albeit evolving to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

24 Jul 2014
Blog Post

Create a Content Marketing Strategy for your Talent Acquisitions Team

such as level of experience, job function preferences and desired organizational benefits. Create personas for each segment.Create personas that match each of your target audience segments. For example, Jessica is a recent MBA graduate... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Making Eco Easy

vision.” Each $2 tablet makes 20 ounces of nontoxic solution that has proven cleaning power. “One of the goals is to make sure that our products perform well in third-party independent testing, and we’re excited that they have matched or... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 1996
News

Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

is that the School dramatically increased its investment in research and course development: from $10 million in 1980 to more than $50 million in 1995. HBS faculty members cite the former Dean's long-term vision, his skill at matching... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

05 Nov 2013
News

Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

Everyone had to open up shop again," he says. He soon became an entrepreneur-in-residence at Idea Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping entrepreneurs in New Orleans by supplying them with strategic consulting and educational services. It does this by... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2001
News

Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges

phenomenon, he suggested, may be that American models are themselves in need of increased scrutiny. The wide variety of governance models presented was matched by a diverse array of panelists and discussion leaders drawn from fourteen... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and identical methodologies in a variety of developed and developing countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2017
News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

and overall outcomes. Projects will include improving New York’s system to match middle school students to their preferred school and prompting doctors to respond more effectively to the opioid crisis, among others. View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

my military background, they were intrigued by my experience in project and change management, especially while leading teams. After months of conversations and interviews, I was matched with the Human Resources team at Uncommon Schools... View Details

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

05 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 5

Limits to Network Effects Authors:Hann Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets rationally prefer a platform restricting choice rather than a platform that offers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2013
News

Deborah A. Farrington, MBA 1976

marketing. Farrington's business success is matched by her enthusiasm for HBS: she currently serves on the Visiting Committee and the HBS Club of New York board and has been an Alumni Board vice president, business plan contest judge, and... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Ads Improve Consumer Decisions

advertising: the persuasive (building interest and awareness) and the informative (educating the consumer about product attributes). Separating these effects allowed Anand and Shachar to identify another, less-heartening reality for advertisers: When a View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

25 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Why I Almost Didn’t Apply to HBS

visit, and I instantly knew that there was something special about this place. The case method, current students, and focus on making a difference in the world matched well with my learning style and outlook on life. Over the next few... View Details

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Tools | New Venture Competition

business plans are no longer submitted for the NVC, but are shared here for you to see more detailed information on the ventures. AppSuccess 2011 Finalist A collaborative web-based platform which matches low-income high school seniors... View Details

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