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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
figures offer the hard data that prove HCZ’s approach works. So do the lives of its graduates. Owusu-Kesse coached basketball when he first came to HCZ; now those players are young men, out in the world.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
listens and emotional connections to the music (“you’ve provided the soundtrack to their life, so there is even more excitement for the show”) and two, the data that artists can get from their streams help uncover fan bases in cities they... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
which analysis of the numbers, facts, and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test not only managers’ skills but also their humanity. This book presents a five-question framework—based on the long humanist tradition of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Arum Kang
As an assistant buyer fresh out of college, Arum Kang felt ready to test her quantitative skills on the retail floors of Lord & Taylor in New York City. "I'm very analytical," Arum says. "Working with consumer data and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
We are at the dawn of a new epoch in the world of science, one that will cast strong light on a unique corner of the biotechnology field known as genomics. The designation refers to the study of genes, those chemical building blocks of all View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
when energy use is lowest; companies will begin to use data to predict and prevent home maintenance issues. Soon: New homes will be wired for connectivity just as they are wired for electricity. “Think about a world where, instead of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
16,000 people unemployed at the end of April 2021 who received federal benefits through the CARES Act of 2020. The authors analyzed anonymized bank transaction data from January 1 through September 17, 2021. Researchers then compared the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
think? Original Article There are striking parallels between September 11 and the collapse of Enron. Both events involved widespread destruction of trust and its attendant costs. Both have now involved the loss of human life and disruption of the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Allen Yang
before; the totality of what it’s like to live in an impoverished state." "But you quickly realize that the experience is not what you expect. Everyone we met had cell phones; all of them had monthly View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
challenges have you encountered in setting up HBS's first international research office? It's a tremendous challenge to establish a platform to facilitate research across more than fourteen Asian countries with multiple languages, cultures, and infrastructures.Also,... View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
The problem with big data is that there is, well, so much of it. Analyzing it is like trying to sip from a firehose. Just in time, a new book on the art and science of quantitative analysis arrives this week. In Keeping Up with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
cap portfolio of $14 billion, with 60 percent representing diverse-founder investments. “Venture is a network-based community,” Rapaport observes. “If you’re not building your network to be reflective of the country that we live in,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
data tells you one thing, but it’s talking to people and being out in the world that really give you the creative power to see what’s next.” Joint venture: “We built Bluemercury while we were building our family and associate each one of... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
a lot of stuff over the two decades that passed, as we were trying to understand this better. But one of the things we realized, is that God doesn't create data in heaven, and then give it as a gift to mankind. Every piece of View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
grew. That meant that as more features were added or tweaked, there were more farmers to provide useful feedback from the field. "The more farmers you have, the better data you have," Cook said. Experimentation can be hard for... View Details
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John Speer
piece of data could change an entire decision set. In Brazil, I got to see how a similar dynamic translated to business.” Part of the community Today, John lives in Allston with his family: Nikki Speer, the... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
ecosystem has grown at an impressive rate," Deighton says. When indirect employment is calculated into the number of jobs that depend directly on the existence of the Internet, the study estimates that 5.1 million people owe their livelihoods to it. The report,... View Details
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
entrepreneurial venture. The paper, which offers a rare glimpse into an area where little consolidated data is available, is forthcoming in the journal Social Science & Medicine. "This study happens to focus on cadavers, but it... View Details