Data Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
News

From Das’s Desk

written and the insights and lessons they offer. The Disruptive Voice – A series that looks at examples of disruptive innovation being explored by academics, researchers, and practitioners who were inspired by Professor Clay Christensen. View Details

Keywords: podcasts; lifelong learning; alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact

MORE Watch three students discuss their approach to the climate change challenge MORE Watch three students discuss their approach to the climate change challenge Professors Mike Toffel and Marco Iansiti presented the more than 900 RC students in their Technology &... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services

much as possible by the LSF scheduler, OS sandboxing (CGROUPS), and identity management permissions. However, there are a number of things to keep in mind while using this shared resource so that the system can work as well as possible... View Details

31 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

initial research on various crowdsourcing problems: Can crowdsourced resources be biased? This is an important question for anyone turning to open innovation for problem solving. To help begin to answer the question, Shane Greenstein (of the Kellogg School of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

non-flashy ways through data entry and recruitment, especially in such uncertain and stressful times, has been inspiring. And the degree to which it has happened was completely unexpected. While recruiting and View Details

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

believe those who claim to have definitive answers to these big questions. The data to answer most corona virus questions with certainty doesn’t exist. We won’t know for five years if immunity lasts five years. We can’t understand... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

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Diversity on Boards - Alumni

Careers Diversity on Boards Careers Diversity on Boards Back to Diversity on Boards Featured Content HBS Women on Boards Library: A curated research portal of articles and data about gender diversity on boards.... View Details

13 Feb 2007
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Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of opening physical retail stores on direct channel sales. Our... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2014
News

Instilling Production with Principles

clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2015
News

Clubs Hopping

in the midst of a digital revolution, Sandy Carter (MBA 1989) told attendees of the HBS Healthcare Alumni Association’s annual conference during the November gathering in Cambridge. Carter, IBM’s general manager for ecosystem development... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

06 Dec 2021
News

Leadership in the Digital Age

Administration and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative. That’s because the challenges that executives face today aren’t issues of technology but a question of “how to create an organization that can actually utilize digital tools and View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

publicly known. Losing streaks are characterized by denial and cover-ups, withholding of information, and finger-pointing rather than accountability. Finding the data and putting facts on the table for all to confront ends closed cronyism... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2021
News

Outsider-Insider Named CEO of Amazon Web Services

CEO of cloud data company Tableau; before that, he spent 11 years working alongside Jassy, running sales, marketing, and support at AWS. As reported by CNN, Jassy cited that experience, as well as Selipsky’s many skills—including... View Details

Keywords: Amazon; online retail; leadership; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise

is a good lead for further data tracking. Business and management literature ABI/ProQuest - best for finding articles on all aspect of business and management topics... View Details

August 2012
Article

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Subsidiaries; Production; Finance; Performance; Ownership

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18 Oct 2016
News

China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

partner level,” he said. “They are brilliant, work 100 hours a week and are intensely competitive.” When considering in which startups to invest capital, Breyer said if the company does not include an artificial intelligence data analysis... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2024
News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details