Data and Data Sets - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Sep 2015
What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

restrictions on the reporter’s movements and contacts within the company. But let’s assume for the moment that the article was even-handed and accurate. It portrayed an organization with a “churn View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion

01 Sep 2023
News

Solving for Z

Breitfelder, Bronstein, and Chen all conduct detailed internal surveys to better understand what their employees are actually looking for and how they can deliver it in a way that is consistent with their... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports)

securities; however, they can provide a useful model to students in understanding how investment professionals analyze an industry and what data points they find of most interest. Please... 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

26 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

them," says Goh. Making The Stress-health Connection Unlike in Europe, little or no data exists in the US that correlates exposure to workplace stress with health outcomes or health care costs. Goh tackles that gap in a new working... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

data on 1920s home prices and foreclosures means that many questions remain unanswered. 22 Historical trade publications like the weekly New York Real Estate Record and... View Details

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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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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

The Founders & Investors Discover Rock alumni and students who are turning opportunity into reality. Entrepreneurs Investors Companies Gilbert Addo CEO, RubiconMD MBA 2011 Pratik Agarwal Founder, Accel MBA 2014 Shantanu Agarwal Founder,... View Details

06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

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

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

25 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

you put the results into the context that most of the fintech companies claim that they use alternative data, it’s very surprising that their borrowers are more likely to default,” Di Maggio says. Di Maggio and Yao tracked 3.79 million... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

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Delisted securities: prices

Where can I find daily stock price data for delisted securities? US and non-US Stock price data for delisted securities can be found in the following databases: LSEG Workspace... View Details

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Leverage LinkedIn - Alumni

required) Learn how to better utilize LinkedIn's data resources and practice tools to prepare for your next interview. How to Recession-Proof Your Career (login required) Gain expert knowledge on surviving... View Details

22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2023
News

The Exchange: Help Wanted

work well, the best way to capture it would be to observe the same person managing different teams and evaluate whether the team improves as this person arrives. It’s not science fiction; this kind of analysis can be done with the View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52435 CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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