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  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

data suggest might be more effective at encouraging donations. These include non-linear matching, social (and team) matching, and lottery matching-each of which novel schemes could be tested empirically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

decisions Recognize trends, detect outliers, and summarize data sets Analyze relationships between variables Develop and test hypotheses Craft sound survey questions and draw conclusions from population... View Details
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

Article Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns By: Robin Greenwood and Andrei Shleifer We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of... View Details
  • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 12 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

Ferguson and Lakhani decided to test this theory using data from the Australian Football League (AFL), the wildly popular sport also known as “footy.” They detailed their findings in the recent working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Economic Studies This paper studies the origins and function of customs and norms that intend to keep women from being promiscuous. Using large-scale survey data from more than 100 countries, I test the... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Answering Your Questions About the 2+2 Program

visit the Application Process page. Which standardized tests does the 2+2 program accept? What is the range of GMAT or GRE scores for accepted students? While you are required to submit either the GMAT or the GRE as a part of the 2+2... View Details
  • 05 May 2022
  • HBS Case

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

corporate participants, including Merck, AT&T, Bank of America, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, and Walmart. Harvard Business School partnered with the group to help with research and data collection for additional study. A... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • April 2003 (Revised October 2004)
  • Case

Novartis: The Challenge of Success (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
Preliminary results from Phase 1 clinical trials of a newly developed compound, STI571, showed that 31 out of 31 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) had their blood counts return to normal. In the world of oncology, this was unheard of. This was the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Markets; Distribution; Product Development; Production; Problems and Challenges; Research; Research and Development; Complexity; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

  Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

answers the question, ‘Should we continue to rely on ratings, given all the times that ratings have been shown not to be correct?” Harvard Business School assistant professor Anywhere Sikochi and colleagues crunched thousands of ratings between 2003 and 2015 to View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 10 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

side, it could create—again, we haven’t tested this—distrust among employees. But, in general, having employees with the right ethics and values, who come forward when they see something, can actually help companies overall. White: How... View Details
Keywords: by April White
  • 02 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable

airlines—United, Delta, and American—changed their company policies, outlining new restrictions for removing passengers from a flight. “It was really a motivating event for them,” Pacelli says. Twitter’s rise correlates with a decline in corporate violations To View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Technology
  • September–October 2020
  • Article

The Past, Present, and (Near) Future of Gene Therapy and Gene Editing

By: Julia Pian, Amitabh Chandra and Ariel Dora Stern
Emerging gene therapy and gene-editing technologies will have a growing impact on patient lives and health-care delivery. We analyzed a decade of data on clinical trials and venture capital investments to understand the likely trajectory of genetically focused... View Details
Keywords: Gene Therapy; Gene Editing; Impact; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Health Testing and Trials; Venture Capital; Change
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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
  • 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
  • Web

Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

uses data to recognize trends and inform business decisions in the movie industry. Show Hide Details Modules Describing and Summarizing Data Sampling and Estimation Hypothesis View Details
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

To improve any business, managers need to understand how much it costs to produce a profitable product. It seems a simple task, but the process of securing and analyzing the data can be incredibly complex and organizationally taxing. In... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 28 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels

of the information that people received varied.” Concierges provide less information to some customers Testing each of the return emails for responsiveness, helpfulness, and rapport, the researchers counted the number of restaurants... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds