Data and Data Sets - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2020 (Revised April 2021)
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StockX: The Stock Market of Things

By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

28 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

part of an effort to change the culture. This sounds like a lot, but the culture cycle provides a foundation for the creation of an organization capable of setting high goals and meeting them. Q: Your... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

turns out that long before robots replace workers en masse, if ever, workers will be using AI-based tools to do work, as is already seen with radiologists who employ such tools to interpret X-rays and lawyers who turn to machine learning... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

05 May 2022
HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

of college credentials being required for jobs that simply don’t need college degrees. The bars were set too high—artificially high—and both companies and workers have paid the price as a result.” A push for... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Private Capital Project

deeper interaction between academia and practitioners to understand the big challenges in the industry and their potential solutions To foster influential research at HBS and... View Details

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

cited in the paper. The problem is particularly severe in retail chains: According to the 2008 National Retail Security Survey, inventory-related employee theft contributed to a loss of $15.9 billion. Intrigued by the size and scale of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

embrace Western models of professional organization as they now exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation. In doing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Google and Groupon, for instance, a higher percentage of employees work in sales than engineering or data mining. And at Facebook the salesforce's ability to translate 'likes'... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

behavior. Using 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... View Details

28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

or 9.4 percent since the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset. The student debt crisis is causing more young people to think hard about the value of a four-year degree. Apprenticeships at work Fuller and his colleagues examined View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Technology & Operations Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

van Bever Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Allison Mnookin Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 Willy Shih Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Data Science for Managers 2 Michael Parzen Fall 2024 Q2 1.5... View Details

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Europe - Global

Its Workforce Discover how Pernod Ricard, a global leader in premium spirits, is harnessing data and artificial intelligence to reimagine operations and expand into new... View Details

May 2013
Case

Launching Krispy Natural: Cracking the Product Management Code

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Heather Beckham

Pemberton Products is a U.S. market leader in the cookie and bakery snacks segment of the sweet snack market. Looking to expand into the salty snack market, the company acquires Krispy Inc., a maker of salty snack crackers located in the southeastern U.S. To compete... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Competition; Organizational Culture; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Expansion; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Acquisition; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio; United States

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Educators

Purchase

20 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

learn German work practices. The fewest "us and them" issues occurred among a team of 24 members split between Germany and India who were working on a data... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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HBS - The year in Review

and ideas outside of HBS; and a core that provides key data and administrative services. More on the Digital, Data, View Details

02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

problems—although nothing approaching a crisis—a small group of senior managers decided to investigate. This effort, which took place off-site and lasted several weeks, uncovered a serious flaw in the strategy itself, View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

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Research Resources - Doctoral

large-scale statistical databases, consumer panel research, behavioral experiments, and theoretical and empirical models. Support is available for methodological and... View Details

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Index constituents

Where can I find constituent lists and data for the S&P and other indices? Current list Bloomberg For a list of current index securities type EQS View Details

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