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  • 2018
  • Book

The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society

By: William R. Kerr
The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on... View Details
Keywords: Immigration; Policy; Labor; Economy; Talent and Talent Management; United States
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  • Research Summary

Performance Impact of Continuous Replenishment Systems

By: Janice H. Hammond
Janice H. Hammond has conducted (with Ted Clark of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) a survey of U.S. retailers to determine how the implementation of continuous replenishment programs between manufacturers and retailers affects supply channel... View Details
  • Article

The Importance of Being Causal

By: Iavor I Bojinov, Albert Chen and Min Liu
Causal inference is the study of how actions, interventions, or treatments affect outcomes of interest. The methods that have received the lion’s share of attention in the data science literature for establishing causation are variations of randomized experiments.... View Details
Keywords: Causal Inference; Observational Studies; Cross-sectional Studies; Panel Studies; Interrupted Time-series; Instrumental Variables
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  • 09 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

School. By incorporating data most companies discard, Ascarza and her co-researcher devised an algorithm capable of quickly analyzing more than 40 variables to create a “first impression” of the customer after the initial transaction. The... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

    Importance of Being Causal

    Causal inference is the study of how actions, interventions, or treatments affect outcomes of interest. The methods that have received the lion’s share of attention in the data science literature for establishing causation are variations of randomized... View Details

      Jerry R. Green

      Jerry R. Green

      David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

      John Leverett Professor in the University

      Harvard University

       

      Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
      • 11 Apr 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

      estate company—they have a lot of buildings,” says MarcAntonio Awada, head of research and data science at the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). For an investor looking for an edge, the... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

        Lauren H. Cohen

        Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
        • Teaching Interest

        Applied Business Analytics

        Course Overview:

        Business Analytics has become a core function in many firms today and is driving innovation in the form of new business and operating models. Data-driven decision-making requires understanding of statistics, computer... View Details

        • Article

        Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA's Office of National Estimates

        By: J. Peter Scoblic
        Would-be forecasters have increasingly extolled the predictive potential of Big Data and artificial intelligence. This essay reviews the career of Sherman Kent, the Yale historian who directed the CIA’s Office of National Estimates from 1952 to 1967, with an eye toward... View Details
        Keywords: National Security; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; History
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        • 2022
        • White Paper

        Census II of Free and Open Source Software - Application Libraries

        By: Frank Nagle, James Dana, Jennifer Hoffman, Steven Randazzo and Yanuo Zhou
        Produced in partnership with Harvard Laboratory for Innovation Science (LISH) and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), Census II is the second investigation into the widespread use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The Census II effort utilizes data... View Details
        Keywords: Open Source Software; Applications and Software; Cybersecurity; Open Source Distribution
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        • July–August 2021
        • Article

        Why You Aren't Getting More from Your Marketing AI

        By: Eva Ascarza, Michael Ross and Bruce G.S. Hardie
        Fewer than 40% of companies that invest in AI see gains from it, usually because of one or more of these errors: (1) They don’t ask the right question, and end up directing AI to solve the wrong problem. (2) They don’t recognize the differences between the value of... View Details
        Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Marketing; Decision Making; Communication; Framework; AI and Machine Learning
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          The Gift of Global Talent

          The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on... View Details

            Why You Aren’t Getting More from Your Marketing AI - HBR

            Fewer than 40% of companies that invest in AI see gains from it, usually because of one or more of these errors: (1) They don’t ask the right question, and end up directing AI to solve the wrong problem. (2) They don’t recognize the... View Details

            • Career Coach

            Alan Braly

            strategies, and product roadmaps in areas of innovation with a current emphasis on oncology data science and data products. Along the way, he has been a leader, manager,... View Details
            • 08 Sep 2010
            • News

            Emerging Scholar Award

            • 21 Sep 2023
            • HBS Seminar

            Pinar Ozcan, Saïd Business School

            • 2024
            • Working Paper

            Economic Budgeting for Endowment-Dependent Universities

            By: John Y. Campbell, Jeremy C. Stein and Alex A. Wu
            To understand their financial position, universities need to understand the long-term implications of their operating revenues and costs in relation to the financial assets they have available. Standard budgeting procedures that focus on one or two years at a time and... View Details
            Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cash Flow; Cost; Revenue; Education Industry
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              Srikant M. Datar

              Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

              Keywords: accounting industry; airline; automobiles; banking; biotechnology; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; health care; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; venture capital industry
              • 2023
              • Working Paper

              Debiasing Treatment Effect Estimation for Privacy-Protected Data: A Model Auditing and Calibration Approach

              By: Ta-Wei Huang and Eva Ascarza
              Data-driven targeted interventions have become a powerful tool for organizations to optimize business outcomes by utilizing individual-level data from experiments. A key element of this process is the estimation of Conditional Average Treatment Effects (CATE), which... View Details
              Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior; Marketing
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