Data Generators - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

forthcoming Annual Review of Economics History, Micro Data and Endogenous Growth By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—Economic growth is concerned with long-run changes, and as a result historical View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney dialysis patients) and Neupogen (which restores white blood cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. As the ability to analyze a patient's... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

27 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Social Network Marketing: What Works?

the research with HBS Working Knowledge. Sarah Jane Gilbert: Your research attempted to answer this question: Do friends within a social network influence online buying behaviors of others in the group? What did you discover? Sunil Gupta: To answer this question we... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising; Publishing; Retail

26 Mar 2025
Blog Post

How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

come with a four-year vest schedule, meaning that you can only earn your equity over time. But data also shows that most employees leave their companies after just two years. That may be worth broader consideration. What is the 409a... View Details

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

practitioners viable solutions. Three decades of writers asserting that win-win solutions were possible had made it all seem too easy to achieve results, when it’s not. Sustainability has become reconciled with success in generating... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

01 Feb 2000
News

Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real

dot-coms, to security windows, to a PC for children, to a gadget that makes the knot in neckties. Nine corporations, including General Motors, Veridicom, Anderson Windows, FitSense Technology, and Lynx System Developers, sponsored student... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2015
News

Complements to the Case Method

professors were really fantastic,” she says. “What they are doing for a generation of students is going to have substantial impact on how financial management practitioners approach theory.” Left to Right: Professor Christopher Malloy,... View Details

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2022
News

Vision: Into the Breach

Cyberattacks are surging: Accenture reports that cyber intrusions jumped by 125 percent, globally, in the first half of 2021 over the same period in 2020. And while all those data breaches and ransomware attacks have meant major headaches... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

27 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

researchers collected time-use information through daily phone calls with each CEO's personal assistant (PA) or with the CEO himself (99 percent of the sample consisted of male CEOs). On the first day of the week, a researcher would call the PA or the CEO in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2016
News

Feedback

virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared, including one that I started after graduating from HBS in 1976... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Ears to the Ground

coverage leads to better results, Clark says, and a greater likelihood of a city renewing its subscription. The ShotSpotter process begins with a gunshot, which activates its audio sensors. Data is sent to a cloud-based software system,... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; photography by Vance Jacobs

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe

pursued research that is relevant to practitioners, in contrast to the work of many scholars at other business schools, who give priority to generating and validating theory of interest to peers in the academy. Likewise, HBS aims to... View Details

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers, academia, and the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

highly reliable sources, are generally not believed unless they fit the company agenda." Others maintained that planning without prediction is impossible. After all, a plan is a prediction. As Vishu put it, "Managers should base... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Fast Answer

Global Climate Change

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Curriculum | MBA

Curriculum (First Year) During the first year at Harvard Business School (HBS), all students pursue the same course of study: the Required Curriculum and FIELD. By studying under a common curriculum, students build a solid, broad foundation of View Details

01 Mar 2025
News

Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)

online guide to finding them in your own backyard that reached a wide general audience; it taught me the power of clear communication and telling a story with your research.” Close to home: “My interest in women’s health comes from my... View Details