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as is true for all conduct matters, review and sanctioning processes for allegations involving demonstrators and demonstrations will remain confidential. The School may periodically release aggregated, anonymized data on disciplinary... View Details

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Credit default swaps

adjust Start-End expression and also select data types associated with the series by using the funnels. Select Insert to download the data into Excel. View Details

01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

12 Nov 2019
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Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

government funding fuels innovation, the researchers took advantage of new patent data from the US Patent and Trademark Office, which recently began including patent filers’ acknowledgments in its database. Those acknowledgments usually... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Compute Cluster - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster and Data Storage Compute Cluster and Data Storage Compute Cluster 7ms Running Jobs Comprehensive guide to running programs and scripts on the HBSGrid, including how to choose your resources,... View Details

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

available for methodological and statistical consultation, data procurement and analysis, programming, subject pool administration, and region-based field support. And, the collections of Baker Library – one of the world’s largest and... View Details

20 Nov 2019
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It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

purchasing other relevant products, from movies and books to clothes and food. Global spending on big data and business analytics is expected to increase 12 percent to $189 billion this year, and rise another 45 percent to $274 billion by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 May 2021
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White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

Carnegie Mellon University. This difference in the monthly occupancy rate “suggests that Airbnb guests may be systematically biased against renting from Black hosts,” the researchers write. Based on detailed neighborhood and city data... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

scanner panel data from a single California location of a major grocery chain, and completely controlling for consumer heterogeneity, we demonstrate that bringing your own bags simultaneously increases purchases of environmentally... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Review of Economics and Statistics The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data By: De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Aug 2009
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High Commitment, High Performance Management

experience. What is the source of their commitment to building a HCHP company and how do they describe the transformation journey they are leading? We are analyzing the data from these interviews and plan to write a book tentatively... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2018
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How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

States, according to data from the World Health Organization. By 2017, the per capita expenditure in Haiti had dropped to $13. No surprise, then, that many of Partner in Health’s clinics had no accounting systems in place and no resources... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

28 Jun 2004
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How to Avoid a Price Increase

a box of cereal should cost, say, $3.29, and then adjust the quantity accordingly. If the cost to make the cereal is high, the result is a box with fewer ounces and fewer portions. If the cost to make that cereal is low, the result is a box with more ounces and more... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

20 Sep 2019
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Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

benchmarks? Defining what growth means Pisano and colleagues fill that gap in a new paper, Long-Term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of US Manufacturers 1959—2015, published in the journal Industrial and Corporate Change, the first systemic attempt to look at real... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

15 Mar 2022
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This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

been adopted by more than 190,000 organizations around the world by 2020. To understand the impact of OHSAS 18001, the researchers obtained the cooperation of several global certification companies to access that data, and combined that with safety View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Aug 2013
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Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

of intuition. Organizations that preclude intuition from their decision-making will never be, or cease to be, transformative." Others had a more expansive view of the role of judgment. As Donald Shaw put it, "Just because we have the technology to record... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2023
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Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

alumni and friends affirms its mission—to serve as an educational springboard that fosters peer collaboration beyond the boundaries of a particular Harvard school, enabling innovators to create meaningful impact across industries, sectors, and continents. An Engine of... View Details

14 Jun 2010
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The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

Assessing an organization's impact on a large-scale societal issue such as poverty is a complex and costly effort. In the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, for example, an organization like Oxfam America could be expected to provide data... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services

Help RCS Cheat Sheet 3ms Check out the links below to quickly get started with our statistical/data services, high-throughput compute cluster, research software, and training. For additional assistance, please see our help page. Statistical and View Details

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