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  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for the study of cities when it allows measurement of the previously opaque, or when it... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

    John Beshears

    John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

    • 31 Jul 2018
    • News

    On Breaking Convention

    • 2019
    • Article

    Big Data

    By: John A. Deighton
    Big data is defined and distinguished from a mere moment in the “ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs... View Details
    Keywords: Big Data; Digital Infrastructure; Privacy; Algorithm; Data Generators; Marketplace Icon; Analytics and Data Science; Infrastructure; Power and Influence; Society
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    • 05 Dec 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Amanda Sharkey, Mendoza College of Business

    • November 2014
    • Article

    The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

    By: Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
    We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies by 1993—termed as High Sustainability... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Research; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Targets; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Accountability; Reporting; Corporate Governance; Investor Clientele; Investor Communication; Stock Market; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Performance; United States
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    • 16 Apr 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

    iStock Consumers make regretable decisions every day, even though easily available information should convince them to do otherwise: Twenty-six percent of consumers choose Advil or other branded headache remedies when they walk into a pharmacy, instead of less... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail
    • 01 Jan 2010
    • News

    Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowships in Entrepreneurship Research

      Karim R. Lakhani

      Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; communications; computer; health care; high technology; information technology industry; internet; pharmaceuticals; software; video games
      • 06 Nov 2019
      • News

      It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask

        DJ DiDonna

        Dennis “DJ” DiDonna has dedicated his career to commercializing social science research to create organizations which positively impact the world. 

        He is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School where he teaches the... View Details

        • 16 Sep 2018
        • News

        Food Citizenship In An Age Of Technological Disruption

        • 01 Jan 2005
        • News

        • 17 May 2021
        • News

        Speaking with Katy Milkman about “How to Change”

        • 12 Dec 2023
        • Book

        HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well

        mobilize organizational change quickly, untangle digital strategy, and reflect on socially responsible leadership. Take a look back at some of the books by Harvard Business School faculty members that hit the market this year: Economic... View Details
        Keywords: by Danielle Kost
        • 30 Jun 2021
        • In Practice

        The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

        What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
        Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
        • October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
        • Case

        Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data

        By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
        On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details
        Keywords: Citizen Science; Creative Commons; Open Data; Open Architecture; Volunteer-based Organization; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility; 311; Nuclear; Radiation; Crowdsourcing; Bgeigie; Geiger Counters; Kickstarter; Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Design; Energy Generation; Social Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Innovation and Invention; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Business Model; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; North and Central America; Europe
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          Silvan Baier

          Silvan Baier is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at HBS and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He studies how social structures shape and are shaped by the organization, spread, and evaluation of ideas and people. In his research, he... View Details

          • May 2015
          • Teaching Note

          Aviva Investors

          By: George Serafeim
          Keywords: Responsibility; Responsibilities To Society; Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Sustainability; Activist Investors; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Activism
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            Frank Nagle

            Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details