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Health Care - Faculty & Research
batch order imaging tests on patient outcomes and resource utilization. Study Setting and Design: In this retrospective study, we used comprehensive EMR View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
apply, firms can now hop on a platform and pick out talent they think would be an especially good fit for their needs. When Koning and his colleagues set out to learn how many... View Details
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Social Impact Collaboratory
Mission Statement Led by Harvard Business School Professor Shawn Cole (Finance), the HBS Social Impact Collaboratory is a research-led effort to advance the understanding and practice of impact investing by developing world-class... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years of View Details
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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 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School
engineer (Guy Kamguia MBA 2015), a biomedical engineer (Miranda Shaw MBA 2015), and a design engineer (Carol Rego MBA 2016) to get their thoughts on engineers pursuing an MBA. So, why do engineers thrive at business school? They’re number... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
different visitors in order to compare their performance. Because BuiltWith data shows when each company installed the software, the researchers could study firm performance before and after testing began... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date
intelligent as well.” The research, published in the paper It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Question-Asking Increases Liking, examined data from online chats and face-to-face speed dating conversations. In addition... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
by understanding the role of hormone levels. ©iStock.com/VIPDesignUSA For eons, academics have studied the forces behind unethical acts, disturbed and intrigued by scary real-world data on corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
data scientist at Amazon; and Nils Wernerfelt, an economist at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Luca and his coauthors analyzed more... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between decision rights and improvement rights (zones of slack), and for View Details
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?
gradually and then suddenly." Companies will move slowly to deploy generative AI technology like that embodied in OpenAI's ChatGPT. Harnessing the immense pool of data underlying it will require the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
technology adoption activity as far back as AD 1500. Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong explain these findings in their paper Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? To prepare the paper, the team compiled a series of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2024
- News
Rooms with a View
Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details
- 25 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Ana Barrera (MBA 2024)
discussions in Aldrich Hall, my aim is to leverage data and empathy to advocate for disadvantaged voices, especially as diversity and inclusion face challenges due to the... View Details
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Finding Talent Opportunities
redefining the future. Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health Sarah Guezmir 26 FEB 2025 Sarah Guezmir (MBA 2025) discusses key insights from his summer internship at Main Street Health. Employment Data We... View Details
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
Media outlets large and small have adopted digital paywalls to augment dramatic declines in print revenues, but given their negative effect on website traffic (and, in turn, online advertising), are paywalls an effective sales strategy? A... View Details
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
perceived by workers. Rouen set out to explore the factors at play. He obtained data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for 931 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2006 and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
transparency through data sharing in order to better track the chain of subcontractors. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne