Data and Data Sets - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

likely to spend extra time on a project with team members than those not eligible for extra rewards. Willing to give up happiness to spend time with colleagues. The research team also studied US Census time-use survey data between 2010... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

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Find institutional holdings using Thomson Reuters

Choose Database Select Thomson Reuters Under Institutional (13f) Holdings - s34 on left select s34 Master File Step One: Date Range Set Beginning Date month and year Set... View Details

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

employed change strategies that focused on both commitment and performance. As ASDA's CEO, Archie Norman, tells it, the new leader has to set a general direction, but must listen View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Jul 2023
News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at Major League Baseball, he... View Details

02 Nov 2023
News

Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details

Keywords: April White

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About Us - Research Computing Services

About Us Research Computing Services (RCS) is a centralized service that supports HBS faculty research with a staff of statisticians, data scientists, and experts in research computing. Read more about our... View Details

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Delimiters - Research Computing Services

appropriate columns, select the entire column by click on the column header A Within the DATA tab at the top, click on Text to Columns In the new window, Convert Text to Columns Wizard , on Step 1 you should select Delimited . Next, on... View Details

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley. A company... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

Summing Up Is Wealth Distribution a Problem Cause or Symptom? The passion and thought that went into this month's questions about wealth redistribution suggest that the topic is of more than passing interest. Some cautioned against hasty... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

research. Analysis of the citation rates of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research indicates that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

communicate reality. Timothy Mitchell, for example, explores how the parameters of economic expertise shape the questions the discipline investigates, while others have scrutinized how data and statistics... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

and quality of work product—the hybrid group members outranked their peers. “The new working paper may be the first to generate data on the impact of hybrid work schedules on enterprise communication... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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Team - Case Method Project

is the staff assistant for the High School Case Method Project where she works with teacher support and survey processing. Prior to working with the Harvard Business School, she assisted with a fellowship that trained View Details

02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime Harvard Business School professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

setting, the team collected data from the Canadian television show Dragons’ Den, where 177 entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas and products to a panel of five investors, called dragons, to solicit... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

What do Porsche fanatics, a video game hater, and a person who cooked two weeks' worth of meals in a rice cooker have in common? They are all "extreme consumers"—those whose tastes are so out there that mainstream market researchers tend... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Student Research - Doctoral

Berquist, Lev Klarnet and Leemore Dafny Private equity (PE) ownership of physician practices is increasing, with owners targeting sales, or exits, in 3 to 7 years. Little is known about the association of exit with physician retention... View Details

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

companies while US doesn’t have these types of companies and therefore the industry-specific materiality map may not be applicable. Another challenge is the lack of data and... View Details

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