Chief Data Officer - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

(AMP 94, 1984) (iUniverse) Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting and Rooting Out Everyday Behaviors That Undermine Your Workplace by Robert Galford (MBA 1976), Bob Frisch, and Cary Greene (MBA 1994) (HarperOne) Inspired by the Simple Sabotage Field... View Details

05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

2017, Jason Blum, the founder and chief executive officer of film and television production company Blumhouse Productions, has another blockbuster on his hands with the movie Get Out, produced for just $4.5... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief executives had two distinct halves to their careers, a... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

06 Oct 2022
News

On the Road to Recovery

company while still at HBS and had recently sold his investments, was intrigued by the opportunity. Travel nursing had gotten its start in the 1980s, and its biggest player had recently gone public, revealing a wealth of data about the... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 1996
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

jobs or embarking on new careers. Working with local club career advisors, the Office of Alumni Career Services, and the MBA Career Development Office, this group is looking at a variety of services that might add valuable resources to a... View Details

Keywords: Cathy Connett

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

equity—grew from 8 percent to 66 percent. Almost all of that was due to option programs that made relatively poor use of market information and were poorly designed. The compensation committees rely on consultants to provide market-based View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

01 Mar 2012
News

The Accidental Innovator

deliver this spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

examiner with the White House Office of Management and Budget, where he oversaw NASA projects to see how well they were adhering to presidential policy, as well as being stewards of the taxpayers’ money. “After years of aerospace being... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

of attention, and we use this framework to study the “attentional stability” of common errors and psychological biases. While many costly errors are prone to persist, in some situations a person will recognize her mistakes via “incidental learning”: when the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

reviews for their competitors. Such review fraud undermines the trustworthiness of consumer reviews and constitutes a major risk factor for review sites. In this paper, we investigate review fraud on the popular consumer review site Yelp. We construct a novel View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

relationships; OkCupid, founded in 2004, which popularized the idea that data could solve the dating dilemma; and niche sites from JDate and ChristianMingle to FarmersOnly. The number and diversity of the sites helped reduce the stigma... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

Establish clear accountability and governance structures, including appropriate legal counsel. Consider where it is needed and proper to have insurance, such as Directors and Officers (D&O) liability coverage, for people in critical... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

good weather. When the weather is bad, individuals appear to focus more on their work than on alternate outdoor activities. We investigate the proposed relationship between worse weather and higher productivity through four studies: (1) field View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

all three were important across the period studied, their relative prevalence varied. For example, gender bias peaked as a concern in 1991, underrepresentation dominated the picture in the late 1990s, and work-family conflict as a concern peaked in 2002. By 2008, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

01 Dec 2008
News

A Force for Good

Fouraker, and the School’s alumni, many of whom were incensed at Bok’s critique of their alma mater. As the dust from that flap was settling, Fouraker completed his tenth year in office and decided to retire. McArthur was named the... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

the problem rather than a crucial part of the solution—and this is a mistake. The district office plays an important role in developing strategies, identifying and spreading best practices, developing leadership capabilities at all... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

then used their findings to make some concrete changes. One key finding: Usage of the public toilet was heavily skewed with respect to gender. PSA: We've been collecting gender segregated data in all the public toilets and we realized... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

capture the degree to which organizations' identities are eclipsed and confounded. The theory is tested with data on U.S. venture capital firm syndication between 1995 and 2009. Venture capital firms with eclipsed and confounded... View Details