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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting and pricing strategies, and extract maximum value from... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Business as a Force for Good
firms strive toward a more sustainable business model. In this video, Coupounas explains how her organization pursues its goals: “HBS was really essential in helping me establish what I really believed in as an entrepreneur, as a business... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
The CrowdStrike tech security outage in July revealed the true interdependence—and fragility—of global computer systems. Following several high-profile data breaches, policymakers are calling on businesses to do more to fix code... View Details
- 11 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital
process is in flux, reconnect with students at set intervals so they know where they stand. This added level of structure and expectation setting benefits both students and firms as top candidates consider... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
if the government is subject to oversight, and whether bureaucrats and politicians are independent from one another. Companies should gauge the level of actual trust among the populace as opposed to enforced trust. For instance, if people... View Details
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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
(pdf) This report details a Global Leadership Roundtable event focused on the appropriate and feasible role that private firms can play in addressing persistently high levels of economic inequality in Latin... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
of improvement, rather than changes in income level or displacement of residents over time.) Education is a catalyst for neighborhood improvement What did seem to matter the most were two factors: population density and education. “The... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
What really fuels a boom-and-bust cycle in the modern global economy? It’s not always household debt, says a new paper that parses in-depth data across 115 countries. Instead, rising corporate debt may flash the clearest warning that a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Cloud Storage | Information Technology
addresses. It is not appropriate to share Level 3 Harvard Data using direct links. Remember you have no control over who can use that link. Do You Still Need to Share those Files? Not all of the shares you... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
New York Stock Exchange, Amex, and NASDAQ. "I was really surprised to see how poorly book-to-market is doing." In all, Wang and colleagues examined 84,837 data points from companies with at least 10 months of metrics from 1980 to 2017.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
paper. The Research The researchers studied data from OutsourceCo (a pseudonym), a major provider of outsourced teleradiology services in the United States, with more than 1,400 client sites, mainly hospitals and radiology group... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
federal, state, and school district levels to address these issues. The team’s first task was to determine the scope of the problem. They built a test to measure a school’s broadband speed, then partnered with state departments of... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits-over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after controlling for gender, age, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Privacy Statement (English) - Global
personal data protection laws, including the GDPR. 5. SECURITY OF PERSONAL DATA We have taken appropriate technical and organizational measures to provide a level of security... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
now at a level of reasonable safety to open up. Much media attention has been paid to easing restrictions—basically increasing the available supply of offices, restaurants, colleges, stores, and factories. “Will shoppers, diners,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
at a time could use it), and one time it managed to spill all its cards on the floor. Val remembers that it took most of a week to put them back in order. How were changes in alumni data recorded back in those days? The staff filled in... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
began making hiking boots. The cluster later expanded into ski boots and sneakers, and drew investments from major brands like Nordica and Nike. Lead firms started offshoring production to cheaper economies like Romania and China,... 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
- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
examined the performance of analysts on stocks to which they had school ties relative to those they did not. For example, a Harvard analyst would have a school tie to a firm that has a Harvard CEO, but no school tie to a View Details