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19 Dec 2023
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be a strong web developer? Employers that use online talent platforms tend to consider profile photos in final hiring decisions, says research by Isamar Troncoso. What's the role of recruiting platforms in preventing bias? Yes, You Can... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

Financial Cryptography and Data Security (forthcoming) Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well hidden, and limited... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

look at the data and it's very clear. That since the early 1990s there's been a subtle and but pretty constant degradation in the average level of happiness in the United States. And in most developed countries around the world.... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

26 Jun 2023
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Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks

ended with a satisfying conclusion. The data could prove especially meaningful at a time when marketing leaders are stretching their budgets and thinking more strategically about spending, according to recent surveys. “We ended up... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Apr 2017
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March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2015
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link: http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.jebo.2014.10.004 January 2015 Economic Journal Does Management Matter in Schools? By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2024
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As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

for career management is needed, Fuller says. Most aspiring workers have very limited access to information on the labor market—what jobs are available near them, what skills or credentials are required to qualify for consideration, and what they pay. As a result, they... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

18 Jun 2024
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Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

shock to supplier prices—caused by international crises—impacts consumers using data from PriceStats, which scrapes retailer websites in real time. The authors tracked food and beverages, one of the biggest... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

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Healthy Buildings in 2070

By: John D. Macomber and Joseph G. Allen

Fifty years seems a very long time in the future for most industries. Not so in buildings and real estate; built structures routinely last decades if not hundreds of years, as long as they are economically competitive. Any discussion of the 50-year future has to... View Details

Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Real Estate; Architectural Innovation; Public Health; Health; Buildings and Facilities; Well-being

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01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

consumers opt in, their anonymized genetic data can be used in scientific research. But most users are focused on the genealogical results, which Ancestry plots with ever-increasing specificity on an interactive View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

16 May 2000
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Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet—the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements.... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

16 Apr 2007
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Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

where the product can be delivered directly online such as software, travel agencies, or media. Indeed, the digitalization of content paired with widespread adoption of broadband Internet is driving a major shift toward digital... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

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privacy settings chosen by individual alumni participants. Data in the alumni directory include but are not limited to: contact information, employment history, interests, and education history and are intended to facilitate inter-alumni... View Details

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the U.S. By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrant assimilation? To answer this question, we assemble novel data from the Catholic directories to measure the presence of Italian... View Details

24 Oct 2023
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When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

backfiring,” Luca notes. Customers seek out Black-owned restaurants For the study, Yelp and Wayfair provided data on their platforms and programs. On Yelp, this included information about platform page views, phone calls, reservations,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

05 May 2022
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Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

says. Rising prices don’t stop consumers To test consumers’ willingness to keep buying higher-priced everyday goods, the researchers examined Kilts Nielsen scanner and consumer panel data for about 14.4 million retail products in 133... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

most experienced managers often discover that intuition, experience, and big data alone don’t work. What does work? Running disciplined business experiments. What makes a good experiment? How do you test in View Details

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