Managing Data Scientists - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Teaching Support for HBS Faculty | Baker Library

products and manage course-related readings. Baker Library also supports students with their coursework and independent project assignments. Students can meet with us individually or in teams to discuss course projects, develop search... View Details

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

managers observed frontline staff work with particular attention to patient safety issues and facilitated open discussion meetings with employees about their safety-related concerns. Data Collection:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

going to work, but you can certainly look at a lot of deals and say, "Even if everything went right, it still wouldn't be worth doing. Q: What was the rationale for introducing The Entrepreneurial Manager into the required MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

today's managers need to harness technological advances, manage and lead a dispersed and diverse workforce, anticipate and react to constant competitive and geopolitical change and uncertainty, compete on a... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

biotechnology. The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps. With an average time line of ten years required to bring a drug to market - and the potential for failure looming every step of the way - the business... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

17 Feb 2015
News

The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)

When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project that will tell the stories of... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Jun 2016
News

Feedback

virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared, including one that I started after graduating from HBS in 1976... View Details

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

Harvard Business School professors are more likely to be found in the pages of the Academy of Management Review than the New England Journal of Medicine, but recently Gary Pisano and Robert Huckman used the latter to discuss their... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

co-edited with Lina Gálvez-Muñoz, a scholar and lecturer at the University of Reading and University of Seville. The essays in their book, entitled Foreign Multinationals in the United States: Management and Performance, describe the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

protection against viruses and Trojans, then on to data leak detection, and eventually the emergence of complex defense systems built to ward off multidimensional attacks. Today, he says, it’s about resilience. That’s what RedSeal... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

06 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

identifying value stocks.” Wang teamed up with Ki-Soon Choi and Eric C. So from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management to author the new research, entitled Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock... 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

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

18 Aug 2014
News

Closing the Education Gap

who is founder and managing partner at Aragon Global Management (AGM), a Chicago-based hedge fund that focuses on global equities. “There is a much higher return on investment in early childhood. It’s more... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

“gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Professor Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for View Details

18 May 2015
News

The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

Yahoo, the challenge is to catalyze growth at an Internet company with tremendous assets. I’m learning every day how to inspire people to challenge conventional wisdom, use data to drive decisions, and tackle roadblocks proactively. I’ve... View Details

Keywords: Google; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details

27 Nov 2017
Blog Post

Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way

join a start-up and the lessons she learned. 1. No pressure, no diamonds.In the cash-strapped environment of a start-up there is pressure to deliver direct results; there's no hiding behind the delayed consequences and layers of View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

13 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

Internet channel to a retail store channel should produce different effects than adding a retail store to the Internet channel. To test our theory, we analyze a unique data set from a high-end retailer using matching methods. Unlike... View Details