Epsilon Data Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

by Alex Sherman and Mike Sherman (MBA 1986) Amazon Digital Services LLC This book provides 52 real-life anecdotes that illustrate important learnings about customer analytics. It draws from the worlds of big data and customer insights to... View Details

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Summit Explores the New Economy

Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative recently gathered students, scholars, and leaders from practice at the 2015 Digital Initiative Summit to "explore the digital transformation of the economy" and help them meet 21st century View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Incentives and Operational Excellence

Rentrak kept track of the scanner data and performed audits and spot-checks to ensure compliance with the revenue-sharing contracts, thus enabling the new system to thrive. “In this case,” said Narayanan, “the solution was win-win-win.... View Details

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

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Venture capital firms: create a list

Useful filters in Preqin include estimated dry powder, total amount raised, and ESG/Ethos. Before exporting, click Manage Columns to customize what data you would like to include in your excel file. Click... View Details

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

"Delivering phone books is the worst way to spend a Sunday when you're a kid," says Olds, now an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurship Management unit at Harvard Business School. The family lived paycheck to paycheck. And... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

advancement. To ensure gender equity, the authors recommend that managers (1) question the stereotypes behind their practices, (2) consider other factors that might explain the achievement gap, (3) change workplace conditions accordingly,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

currently-experienced world. The next day she introduced me to Justin Oliveria and Dan Nevius, two ECs that had worked at NASA and Planetary Resources. They had started building a space technology company, Analytical Space, that is initially focused on small... View Details

Keywords: Technology

18 Sep 2018
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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

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

initially. Through her relationship with Austin, Rachel connected with Alex Iskold, Coach and VC in Resident at the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS and Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures [formerly View Details

22 Nov 2024
News

Deep Reading

searchable way to access them. Leboyer could have joined a havruta, the rabbinical version of a study group, to help him navigate the corpus, but as managing director of the Venture Lab for Software and AI at the Technical University of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

management ranks. Koning and Ferguson took a broader approach. They reviewed data collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission between 1971 and 2014, determining the racial makeup of every large... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Usage and Policies - Research Computing Services

agree to comply with applicable policies and laws governing the use of Harvard Business School’s technology resources and the protection of data privacy.... RCS Policies Access to RCS resources is intended only for legitimate purposes... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed decisions using View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2024
News

What is Web3?

Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift... View Details

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

is not much historical data and experience for managers to draw upon when developing or applying metrics, and many economic benefits of e-commerce projects are seen as difficult to measure. Further, the pace... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

effectively and efficiently measure the impact of Acumen’s portfolio companies. “We developed Lean Data as a smart way to listen to our customers and understand the impact of our products and services on their lives,” Kasia says. In the... View Details

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Health Plans - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

selecting excellent providers based on data Create relationships to increase the volume of care delivered by or affiliated with centers of excellence Assemble, analyze, manage members’ total medical records... View Details

08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how US branch-banking deregulations affected the entry and exit of firms in the non-financial sector using establishment-level data... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

realistic, while 20 percent believed it was a random fluctuation warranting no urgent action," says Lassiter, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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