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International Data on Measuring Management Practices
By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen
We examine methods used to survey firms on their management and organizational practices. We contrast the strengths and weaknesses of "open-ended questions" (e.g., World Management Survey) with "closed questions" (e.g., Management and Organizational Practices Surveys).... View Details
Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen. "International Data on Measuring Management Practices." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 152–156.
- November 1999 (Revised May 2000)
- Supplement
Data Supplement: Post-War US Economic Statistics
By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Cherie Nursalim
Supplements Tax Cut of 1964 (9-382-078), Nixon's Economic Strategy--1969 (8-378-258), and The Reagan Plan (9-381-173). View Details
Keywords: History; Sovereign Finance; Development Economics; Mathematical Methods; Taxation; Policy; Government Administration; Macroeconomics; United States
Rotemberg, Julio J., and Cherie Nursalim. "Data Supplement: Post-War US Economic Statistics." Harvard Business School Supplement 700-070, November 1999. (Revised May 2000.)
- January 1986 (Revised October 1986)
- Case
Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (Abridged)
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 486-081, January 1986. (Revised October 1986.)
- 29 Jun 2025
- News
America’s Economic Data Are Becoming Murkier
- 11 Oct 2017
- Video
Empowering Women Through Personal Health Data
- 02 Mar 2022
- News
How Data Can Make Better Managers
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The Success of Monitoring the Economy With Big Data
- 21 Jun 2018
- Video
KPMA HBX Live Cracking the Data Aggregation Problem - Gabriel Eichler
- 10 Dec 2012
- News
How Nonprofits Can Use Data to Solve the World’s Problems
- 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- Other Unpublished Work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
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO of Little Rock, Arkansas-based... View Details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).