Data Generators - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. After local governments decided to pursue LEED certification for their own buildings, there was an uptick in the number of local architects, general contractors, and other... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

may develop? "There is this general sense that if you are going to come up with a great creative idea that moves the market in some sector, you better do it for me rather than my competitor," says Silk. While "exclusivity"—one agency, one... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

possibilities." Though developed as a program for Harvard alumnae, Charting Your Course could become a model for similar programs offered to interested women elsewhere. Data collected from women in the reunion classes of 1981, 1986,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

“Since HBS, I have been intentionally inserting myself into businesses and technologies that have transformed humanity and the workplace as we know it today. In the late 1980s, I witnessed the PC revolution and rise of distributed data... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Up from the Ashes

sometimes tragic personal life. “Light and chipper in public,” McCraw writes, the charming and generous Schumpeter “lived an altogether different life in private — a continuing, desperate internal struggle with melancholy.” Excerpts from... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

data-driven personalization platform for fashion retailers, provided us with an aggregated dataset of online apparel sales from a variety of anonymized well-known fashion retailers in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2019 and 2020. The View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, it is often assumed, and thus cannot serve as a sustainable source of competitive advantage. But data... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

powerful.” While savvy negotiators and analysts generally avoid these pitfalls, the less sophisticated can go astray. Robust correctives to these misimpressions are offered and related to three different kinds of “no” in negotiation: a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

likely to hold back ideas, concerns, and questions to maintain a positive image, the team says. Once psychological safety is lost, it’s hard to get back. Newcomers’ loss of psychological safety was followed by a long period of small gains, which the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

customer lifetime value (LTV) to customer acquisition cost (CAC) 4-5 hrs Module 2 Understanding the Customer Determine who your business’s early adopters are to begin generating customer personas and related buyer journeys. Identify an... View Details

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

to their dismissal. A link between tenure and effectiveness We developed a simple model to analyze the relationship between coach tenure and effectiveness using NFL data from 2000 to 2015. The model used winning percentage as the outcome... View Details

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

28 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

gas flow into the can and explode. (While all of the data that I am using about the Walmart stories are from publicly available sources, it should be noted that I served as an expert witness in the case of Melvin v. Walmart, Inc.) This... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

experiments. Land understood that through experimentation even repeated failure yielded data that would ultimately lead to the successful testing of hypotheses. He believed his employees needed time for the concentration required in the... View Details

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Departments | Employment

virtually; ensure the School's information assets are organized and findable by the HBS community and external audiences; archive and preserve the School's intellectual capital and history, making it available to future generations of... View Details

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

success and (b) develop a set of instruments to assess RE risk factors and to design, evaluate, and apply effective measures to mitigate those risks. The data collection consists of interviews with RE experts and other experienced... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

tasks and finding the appropriate platforms for execution. In that sense, the tasks were defined for data scientists and algorithm developers who do not necessarily have that domain knowledge, but possess the skills necessary for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

interviews to replace a worker the company has a huge amount of data on from personnel files, performance evaluations, etc. When they replace the worker who leaves because of caregiving conflicts, they incur the direct costs, but they... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

18 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

we measure–and invest in–those co-benefits; and the key business opportunities, including data and technology, looking through the lens of climate risk in infrastructure, real estate, buildings and public health. Why Climate Adaptation?... View Details

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Wind turbine manufacture was clustered in Denmark... View Details