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- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Side of Data with Your Dinner
company that helps restaurants collect and analysis data to better understand their businesses, and, this month, a new book, The Underground Culinary Tour: How the New Metrics of Today’s Top Restaurants Are Transforming How America Eats.... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation
By: Sam (Ruiqing) Cao and Marco Iansiti
The increasing availability of data can afford dynamic competitive advantages among data-intensive
corporations, but governance bottlenecks hinder data-driven value creation and increase regulatory risks.
We analyze the role of two technological features of data... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Transformation
Cao, Sam (Ruiqing), and Marco Iansiti. "Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-122, May 2021. (Revised November 2023.)
- 05 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
- 2007
- Working Paper
The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data
By: Laura Alfaro and Faisal Ahmed
We use highly disaggregated data on trade in capital goods to study differences in the price of capital across countries. This strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment from a small number of industrialized countries.... View Details
Alfaro, Laura, and Faisal Ahmed. "The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-073, April 2007. (Revised March 2010.)
- 10 Dec 2012
- News
How Nonprofits Can Use Data to Solve the World’s Problems
- September 2024
- Exercise
Assessing the Value of Unifying and De-Duplicating Customer Data
By: Elie Ofek and Hema Yoganarasimhan
This exercise provides an opportunity for students to gain hands on experience with assessing the value of unifying various customer databases that a firm may have (e.g., across the different brands it markets) and of properly identifying customers to avoid duplication... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Value
Ofek, Elie, and Hema Yoganarasimhan. "Assessing the Value of Unifying and De-Duplicating Customer Data." Harvard Business School Exercise 525-023, September 2024.
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The Success of Monitoring the Economy With Big Data
- 2023
- Working Paper
Distributionally Robust Causal Inference with Observational Data
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li
We consider the estimation of average treatment effects in observational studies and propose a new framework of robust causal inference with unobserved confounders. Our approach is based on distributionally robust optimization and proceeds in two steps. We first... View Details
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Kosuke Imai, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "Distributionally Robust Causal Inference with Observational Data." Working Paper, February 2023.
- September 22, 2020
- Article
Improving Data Access Democratizes and Diversifies Science
By: Abhishek Nagaraj, Mathijs de Vaan and Esther Shears
Nagaraj, Abhishek, Mathijs de Vaan, and Esther Shears. "Improving Data Access Democratizes and Diversifies Science." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 38 (September 22, 2020).
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
1997 Placement Data Reflect January Cohort's Success
As with any new endeavor, the School's recent introduction of a year-round calendar - with two entry dates, September and January, for each MBA class - posed some unique challenges and uncertainties. One issue of particular interest among HBS alumni, recruiters, and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Improving Lives One Data Set at a Time
Esther Hsu Wang (MBA 2009, MPA 2010) is the Founding Partner of IDinsight, and is on a mission to change the way the world supports those in need. Based in Lusaka, Zambia and serving organizations across Africa and Asia, IDinsight uses View Details
- 08 May 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Environmental Impact: Measurement, Data and Information
- 2014
- Other Unpublished Work
Using Big Data to Improve Social Policy
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jon Kleinberg, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan
- 2011
- Book
Business Intelligence: Making Decisions through Data Analytics
By: Jerzy Surma
Surma, Jerzy. Business Intelligence: Making Decisions through Data Analytics. New York: Business Expert Press, 2011.
- May 1991 (Revised June 1991)
- Case
Mexican Economy: Selected Data Exhibits for 1967-87
Rukstad, Michael G. "Mexican Economy: Selected Data Exhibits for 1967-87." Harvard Business School Case 391-235, May 1991. (Revised June 1991.)
- 29 Jan 2016
- News
What Data Can Do to Fight Poverty
- 04 Jun 2021
- News
When an Educated Guess Beats Data Analysis
- 2018
- Working Paper
Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
We demonstrate that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e., nowcasting and forecasting) and by providing additional context about how the local... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Local Range; Transition; Analytics and Data Science; Measurement and Metrics; Forecasting and Prediction
Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24952, August 2018.
- 21 Jun 2018
- Video