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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

E-commerce During COVID: Stylized Facts from 47 Economies

By: Joel Alcedo, Alberto Cavallo, Bricklin Dwyer, Prachi Mishra and Antonio Spilimbergo
We study e-commerce across 47 economies and 26 industries during the COVID-19 pandemic using aggregated and anonymized transaction-level data from Mastercard, scaled to represent total consumer spending. The share of online transactions in total consumption increased... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Spending; Internet and the Web; Global Range; Analysis; E-commerce
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  • October 2023 (Revised February 2024)
  • Technical Note

Design and Evaluation of Targeted Interventions

By: Eva Ascarza and Ta-Wei (David) Huang
Targeted interventions serve as a pivotal tool in business strategy, streamlining decisions for enhanced efficiency and effectiveness. This note delves into two central facets of such interventions: first, the design of potent decision guidelines, or targeting... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Analysis; Design; Business Strategy; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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  • January 2022
  • Technical Note

Ethical Analysis: Well-Being and Rights

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Christopher Diak
This note introduces students to two central concepts for ethical analysis: well-being and rights. It illustrates ways in which they figure in managerial decisions and challenges that arise, including how to frame trade-offs across individual well-being and... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Analysis; Rights; Well-being; Management Practices and Processes; Decision Making
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  • February 2021
  • Article

Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools

By: Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv
We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external validity of experiments... View Details
Keywords: Lab Selection; External Validity; Experiments; Behavior; Surveys; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis
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  • Fast Answer

Television: overview & ratings

Where can I find an overview of the TV industry, and also TV ratings? S&PCapital IQ Pro: Select  Industries --> Technology, Media & Telecommunications... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Company, topic, & industry alerts

How do I set up an alert for articles/new info on a specific company, topic or industry? Baker Library Industry Highlights: Newsletters curated by Baker librarians covering major players and HBS recruiters, analysis of trends in... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

equity with Berkshire Partners, Aaron came to HBS “to gain an understanding of how businesses function from a perspective beyond the financial analysis and business due diligence lens.” But during his time at Morgan Stanley and Berkshire,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • Web

Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Collection: Data Analysis Photography has the capacity for accounting for things seen in the visual world with an exactitude for their differences which no... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Robert Buzzell Remembered

Buzzell Photo Courtesy HBS Communications An expert in strategic marketing, Robert D. Buzzell, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, died last November in Virginia. He was 71. Buzzell was perhaps best known for his role in the formulation and View Details
  • Web

Market Perspectives - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Market Perspectives Course Number 1457 Professor Robin Greenwood Baker Foundation Professor Richard Ruback Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Paper Video: Market Perspectives Course Overview This case-based course applies market perspectives and economic View Details
  • Fast Answer

Supply chain relationships

Bloomberg, Capital IQ and FactSet report current and recent supply chain relationships (customers, suppliers, and strategic partners). Bloomberg - To display the suppliers and customers of a company, enter the company ticker followed by SPLC <GO> to... View Details
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

gender and work, the paper, An Outside- Inside Internalization of Shifting Gender Logics in Professional Work, identifies cycles of organizational analysis and resulting actions sparked by transformations in societal beliefs and practices... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
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HBS Alumni Research Tips: Finding Market Data & Insights

artificial intelligence, blockchain, connected devices and IoT, digital business, robotics and drones, and security tech. For industry information click on sectors. For trends and insight click on analysis. There are many frameworks for View Details
  • 17 Nov 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

solving in a multicultural context because it promotes a flow of novel ideas and concepts from cultures other than one's own. New ideas from other cultures can serve as raw materials for recombination or stimulate new thoughts. Combining social network View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

New Releases

principles to guide it. This is the challenge. Managers must rise to it, for they are the force at the center of the storm." Managerial Decision Analysis Series four new titles by David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. (Course... View Details
  • July 1999
  • Article

Analysts' Forecast Accuracy: Do Ability and Portfolio Complexity Matter

By: Michael B. Clement
Prior studies have identified systematic and time persistent differences in analysts’ earnings forecast accuracy, but have not explained why the differences exist. Using the I/B/E/S Detail History database, this study finds that forecast accuracy is positively... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; Experience and Expertise
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  • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
  • Supplement

Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart (B)

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
Supplements the (A) case. In this case, Wehunt and Morse are concerned about the logistic regression model overfitting to the training data, so they explore two methods for reducing the sensitivity of the model to the data by regularizing the coefficients of the... View Details
Keywords: Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Customers; Household; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • Fast Answer

Public companies: comparative financial ratios

Where do I find comparative financial ratios of public companies in an industry? In Capital IQ: For broad industry sectors (energy, materials, consumer discretionary, consumer stables, healthcare, financial, information technology, telecommunications, utilities): mouse... View Details
  • Web

Peter O. Crisp papers | Baker Library

to Venrock Associates and its founding family, the Rockefellers, compiled by Crisp, circa 1946-2008. It includes information on investments made by Venrock and the companies in which the investments were made; investment performance and View Details