big data - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

Summing Up Personal Predictive Analytics: Should We Be Careful What We Wish For? The world of continuous monitoring of numerous sensors for machines and humans, limitless information storage capacity, and big View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

issues. Big accounts drive a disproportionate amount of a company’s revenue (the 80/20 rule), and reliance on large customers has grown. Publicly traded US companies must disclose any customers that account for more than 10 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

which was last raised in 2009. Twenty-nine states and 41 cities have increased the minimum wage above that federal level. “The minimum wage is a big issue, and this is one piece of the puzzle” Opponents counter that government-mandated... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

the social mission. “Hybrids have to simultaneously pursue commercial and social objectives,” says Julie Battilana, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. “The big question is, is it really... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 9

experiment and their interactions can make it difficult to determine cause-and-effect relationships. Choosing the right sample size is important. How can we ensure reliable results? Randomized field trials, "blind" tests, and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

HBS Social Enterprise Initiative executive director Stacey Childress discusses the study and its implications for investors. Salls: Tell us about the study. What did the team set out to do? Childress: A team of three MBA 2003 students, Steven Carden, Hank Midgley, and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

products to have adverse events reports. These data may inform proposals for review of high-risk devices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52136 in press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

necessarily more extreme than at many other schools. Besides, students have access to all kinds of data when they are choosing colleges, so just how much weight would college-bound kids give to a well-publicized scandal like this one?... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

lights when we leave the room or recycling our bottles," Karmarkar says. "Bringing bags is interesting in that it's a difficult thing to remember to do, and actually requires a fairly big behavioral change on the part of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

it, students get a hands-on sense of what is unique about digital economics and business models, from new businesses like 3-D printing to "classics" like Facebook. They also do a deep dive into data analytics. "There are... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

http://www.amazon.com/One-Report-Integrated-Reporting-Sustainable/dp/0470587512/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266436753&sr=1-1 The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

San Diego—brings “significant and long-lasting” benefits, including greater economic growth, global talent, and even more invention to these regions, write William Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Brad... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

what we find using data from the online platform we study, but we also confirmed this result in a nationally representative survey of consumers. At the market level, we find that more stringent occupational licensing regulation actually... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

Piskorski with information about its members, covering user demographics such as age, gender, height, and body type. The data also included usage patterns—how users learned about one another's profiles, how many profiles they viewed on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

interviews to replace a worker the company has a huge amount of data on from personnel files, performance evaluations, etc. When they replace the worker who leaves because of caregiving conflicts, they incur the direct costs, but they... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

04 Jun 2014
What Do You Think?

Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?

will probably be enhanced by the information that others have about us. Will big data overwhelm us, thereby reinforcing such things as brand loyalty? Or will the quality of our search and valuation devices... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products; Technology

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

biotech company than an Internet start-up," remarks Pisano. "In biotech, one big drug will make you very profitable for a long time, but the percentage of drugs that make it to market is so low that it remains a risky... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

The computer age began some six decades ago with general-purpose machines with Star Wars-like names such as ENIAC and EDVAC. They were powered by vacuum tubes, big enough to fill an entire room, and developed by mathematicians under the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

of longer-term shareholders. Myth Number 4: ESG data for fundamental analysis is scarce and unreliable. Reality: Thanks to the efforts of reporting and investor organizations such as SASB and Ceres, as well as CDP View Details