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Who We Are | Research Associates

proactive, and dedicated staff members who support faculty's scholarly and teaching output. Whether they're using advanced statistical techniques or writing thoughtful analysis of groundbreaking findings, our researchers share a sense of... View Details

11 Aug 2020
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for Educational Opportunity changed her mind. The program, which offers educational and career support to students from underserved communities, helped Harris realize something: she loved finance. “I was 19 years old and there I was, actually working on View Details

Keywords: workplace diversity; gender diversity; career paths; career advice; leadership; networking; workplace relationships; Finance

01 Jun 2008
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develop an effective strategy (with tools such as SWOT analysis and strategic-change agendas); plan execution of the strategy (through portfolios of strategic initiatives linked to strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards); put strategy into... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

25 Jun 2018
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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

September 2022
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On CUE: The Quest for Optimal Customer Unit Economics

By: Elie Ofek, Barak Libai and Eitan Muller

Startups are often evaluated by how well they perform on unit economics, defined as the ratio of a customer’s lifetime value (LTV) to acquisition costs (CAC). A common target for unit economics, advocated by many VCs and analysts, is 3:1 (i.e., LTV/CAC=3). While there... View Details

Keywords: Unit Economics; Business Startups; Performance Evaluation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Analysis

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LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler

LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns... View Details

Keywords: Data Science; Data Analytics; Investing; Loans; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Model

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Industry analysis: historical

with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. For additional historical analysis of an industry, you can search for articles in Factiva, ABI, and/or Business Source Complete. View Details

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ProQuest TDM Studio | Baker Library

Sentiment Analysis data visualizations are also available. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote access available HBS Executive Education & Fellows No access at this time HBS Alumni No access at this time Harvard Faculty,... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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Faculty Research Online

The Best Place for Retirement Funds Location, location, location isn’t just about real estate. Assistant Professor Daniel Bergstresser discusses his research on optimal asset-location strategies. The Hard Work of Failure Analysis We all... View Details

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

25 Oct 2017
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Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

good,” says Teodorescu. Much of the earliest applications of machine learning concerned language. At the birth of the field in the 1940s, British mathematician Alan Turing conceived the abstract grammars to analyze texts and describe reasoning. Since then, the field of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

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Eligibility & Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Project Grant program is intended to support expenses related to the research and analysis component of Independent Projects. The program does not support business start-up expenses such as: beta program development, organization... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

lackluster performance. We will also adopt a holistic view of turnarounds that combines the analysis of strategy, organization, operations, culture, and finance. While these elements are analytically distinct, we will examine how they... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

Data’s Double Duty: Research and the Real World As Raffaella Sadun was wrapping up her Corporate Strategy course last fall, one of her students sent her a four-page analysis of the private equity industry in India, a topic the class had... View Details

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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

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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

25 Apr 2014
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To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method

rigorous analysis tests them." Rivkin and collaborators A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin, and Nicolaj Siggelkow, recommend combining creativity with the scientific method in an approach where a team representing diverse specialties,... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Medicine made personal

Australia-born Arjun Goyal (MBA 2014) credits HBS with helping him focus his career on life sciences, specifically “personalized medicine”—a tailored approach to treatment based on analysis of patient populations. With his classmate Louis... View Details

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America Online, Inc.

By: Amy P. Hutton and Krishna G. Palepu

America Online's (AOL) stock price has soared nearly 2,000% since its IPO. However, there is considerable disagreement among analysts regarding the future prospects of AOL. Although many analysts are bullish on the stock, short sellers have sold around 7 million... View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Analysis; Stocks; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Statements; Business Strategy; Web Services Industry

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