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Article databases: Which to choose?

How do I know which article database to use? Choose an article database to search using our comparison chart: Recommended for: News Trade Articles Academic... View Details

05 May 2020
Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that is more detailed than the US Census data economists typically examine. In addition, they relied on a database called the Billion Prices Project, which Cavallo first developed as a Ph.D. student at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Nov 2022
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How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

anthropological database of more than 1,200 pre-industrial societies, and links these historic conditions to modern data, such as the Standard Demographic and Health Surveys, which offer large-scale household survey data worldwide. These... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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Delimiters - Research Computing Services

Database Best Practices Delimiters 3ms Word of Caution on Delimiters The field delimiter is the character which splits data or text into separate fields. A field is a column within your database. As an example, we may have the dataset... View Details

11 Jun 2018
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Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

Gurun used a database that tracks litigation against 1,000 top firms in the US stock market, looking at all lawsuits between 1995 and 2013. They cross-referenced that with a database of advertising spending... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

24 Oct 2011
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The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

reviews over professional critics, but also because of its historical database that tracks every review. Luca compared the ratings over time with revenue data from the state of Washington to gauge how reviews impacted restaurants' bottom... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

31 May 2004
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How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

daily diary entries from employees working on creative projects—everything from making a new high-strength fabric to developing a database for a global hotel chain—they were able to chart how and why team leaders have enormous impact,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Compensation by Industry/Position/Location

Includes bonus information, anonymous salary information, and revised industry definitions. Business Insider Searchable database of the last three years of salary disclosures, collected from the USCIS website, curated to a range of... View Details

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Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows - Research Computing Services

Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows 1. STATA Members of the Harvard Business School community can access the WRDS platform via Stata. Stata connects to WRDS through ODBC, a standard application programming... View Details

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Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services

web-based databases, such as Global Access, may be accessed through Baker Library's homepage . Additional databases are added regularly, and faculty may purchase data as needed for their research. If you are interested in purchasing... View Details

24 Sep 2019
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Launching a Career in Clean Energy

decided I wanted to get into the clean energy sector, I went back to the alumni database and scoured it. I talked to around a dozen alumni in the field and that’s ultimately how I came to my role at Ameresco. All the alumni I reached out... View Details

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Executive compensation

report reviews key employee compensation practices at charitable nonprofit organizations based on data derived from the GuideStar database of digitized Form IRS 990 and 990-EZ information. View Details

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RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services

expertise and the backgrounds of our team members. Email research@hbs.edu to book a consultation with a team member or engage with us on project work. Additional information about how we work can be found here . HBS Compute Cluster ('HBSGrid cluster' or 'the Grid'):... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

Updated annually. Crunchbase News An online publication funded and supported by Crunchbase, a public database of private companies with funding information. Topics covered focus primarily on Venture Capital and private company funding... View Details

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

open source development process. For example, IBM released half a million lines of its Cloudscape program, a simple database that resides inside a software application instead of as a full-fledged database... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

20 Nov 2019
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It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

jokes appeal to people with a certain sense of humor. Using the database ratings, the algorithm will search for new jokes that are similar to the ones you liked, and dissimilar to the ones you did not like.” Participants who received the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 May 2022
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Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

Campbell and Shang constructed a dataset of reviews from more than 4,000 publicly traded firms between 2008 and 2016, extracting a vocabulary of 11,772 unique words used in the reviews. At the same time, they obtained a database assembled... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

hundred,” Nagle says. Not everyone leaped on the knowledge right away, however. Since the academic community hadn’t anticipated this development, some researchers were quicker to use it than others. In order to figure out who those researchers were, Nagle and... View Details