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- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
support as well.” That includes patents that were supported by federal grants and patents that relied on previous patents or publications that the government funded, directly or indirectly. (Yao and his colleagues’ research was itself funded by an NSF grant.) By... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 May 2025
- Blog Post
How to Work with Search Firms
am." This kind of reciprocity can lead to being labeled a “Friend of the Firm.” When your name comes up in a database search, you’ll get a first look. Build Relationships Through Recommendations The best way to get on a recruiter’s radar... View Details
- 18 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Family Business Club
MBA programs. The club is also in the process of building an alumni database to provide members with access to connections in family businesses. Finally, the FBC provides an excellent opportunity for students to connect and share... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
in strategic job families to the business unit strategy?1 Of course not. One corporation in a Hackett database might report that it spends 0.2 percent of revenue on employee competency development, whereas your company spends 1.0 percent... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
technology's development. Incumbents recognize that they have lost the game in the volume end of the market and do what they can to block incursions from below. For example, Oracle introduced its disruptive relational database in the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
are you won’t ever learn how to pull off a triple bypass. And yet, in business, companies routinely expect employees to pick up new job knowledge through vicarious learning—through reading descriptions of tasks in knowledge-management View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
relatively good forecasts of actual box office returns. In fact, the forecasting accuracy is what makes it such a valuable research setting. I used HSX to measure how the involvement of a movie star affects likely theatrical movie revenues. I started by compiling a... View Details
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
from each Kickstarter project, including the comments from the customers and updates posted by the entrepreneur. The researchers then manually collected data for actual delivery times and numbers of product features. They also cross-referenced funding information on... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
why it might be taking so long. Researching Drugs Versus Devices She started with three decades of data from FDA databases on the approvals of all new drugs and high-risk medical devices between 1977 and 2007, measuring how long those... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
database of every senior official in the Secretariat from 1945 to 2008—some 4,000 names in all. Then, consulting news reports and international directories, they determined the nationality of each official. “It's not clear that it's in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
basketball, culling a US Department of Education database for individual schools’ reported revenue by sport, which provided, through econometric modeling, a causal link between athletic success and revenue. A Multimillion-Dollar Industry... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
they performed at the box office. To compare them to non-listed films, they used a film-industry database called Done Deal Pro, which lists all films made in a given year, to end up with some 1,600 movies, including those both on and off... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
at Northwestern University, launched a study on the performance of 4,700 companies listed in the S&P Compustat database during the recessions of 1981-82, 1990-91 and 2001 and compared their performance before, during, and three years... View Details
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general manager of OgilvyOne Consulting, responsible for creating new offerings in brand and marketing strategy development, planning, analytics, customer experience design, and database marketing. She began her career at IBM, rapidly... View Details
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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
Alumni interested in leaders of the past century now have a powerful database at their fingertips, thanks to the School’s Leadership Initiative. The online resource offers a comprehensive overview of leadership in 20th-century American... View Details
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Resources for Harvard Economics Students
A series of resources, tips and FAQs to support Harvard economics doctoral students, senior thesis writers and econ concentrators navigating Baker Library financial data resources. Which databases can I use... View Details
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Workshops & Technical Talks - Research Computing Services
data Tesseract for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Workshop Recording (RCS) Principls of Causal Inference Workshop Slides (RCS) Databases and SQL Workshops and Tutorials Working with SQL setup instructions (DB Browser for SQLite),... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
Entrepreneurship,” written with his wife Sari Pekkala Kerr, a labor economist at Wellesley College. The paper uses a unique new database to track immigrants’ entrepreneurial activity over the past few decades, revealing, for example, what... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
New on the Web at Alumni Career Services
HBS alumnae seeking to return to the workforce and all alumni interested in board positions now have new tools on the Alumni Career Services Web site to assist in their search. The “on-rampers” résumé database was designed exclusively for... View Details