Data and Data Sets - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
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Truth in Lending

30-minute credit test is based on research in psychometrics conducted at Harvard’s Center for International Development to help lenders understand both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. The questions on the test seek not... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

a spreadsheet tool they developed that any organization can use to plug in their own figures and calculate their own potential costs of not dealing with burnout. “In every other management decision, you try to have as complete a picture... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

submission scripts. As described previously, you are only limited by the size of the cluster and any system-wide enforced limits. The resources you can customize include: Amount of RAM Number of processors (cores) Which View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

current awareness and perspectives on business and policy challenges and trends in the banking industry. International Banking Library The International Banking Library is a... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's... View Details

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

taking this course, get off on the correct side. Take the course so we can talk about it. Richard Pitts Read more learner stories * Source: 2022 surveys and course data All FAQs Management Essentials FAQs... View Details

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

best way for me to establish this argument is to trace the history of research on corporate boards and analyze the trends in that research, including the relative value of the types of data that researchers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

As CEO of Caribu, Tuchman set about to expand its online library of books and games and became one of the few Latina founders with a technology-based growth company. Miami... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

diagnosis and treatment with genomic sequencing and machine learning to solve antibiotic resistance Nix—develops biosensors that analyze electrochemical biomarkers to deliver health View Details

Keywords: April White

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Events - Creating Emerging Markets

to generate new repositories of primary data in the current age of digital media and audio-visual technologies. A Panel was devoted to showing how the CEM database was generating new insights into... View Details

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Madison McIlwain

(LCA) professor wrote the original cases on Enron before the company had been convicted of fraud. As he looked back at the work he did, he reflected on the power of combining data with instinct to trust your own intelligence View Details

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

of intuition. Organizations that preclude intuition from their decision-making will never be, or cease to be, transformative." Others had a more expansive view of the role of judgment. As Donald Shaw put it, "Just because we have the technology to record... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

Assessing an organization's impact on a large-scale societal issue such as poverty is a complex and costly effort. In the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, for example, an organization like Oxfam America could be expected to provide View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

U.S. Multinational Firm Activity Authors:C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

assistant professor of marketing at Purdue University, and Sachin Gupta, the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and professor of marketing at Cornell University. Steenburgh believes that the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2015
News

Data-Driven Diligence

same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

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Research Design - Impact Investments

documentation of data on the activities of impact investors and the social impact of private equity to the greater community of researchers and practitioners. Diane Burton et... View Details

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Running Jobs - Research Computing Services

resource usage. The section on choosing your resources provides guidelines for doing this. Running a Program/Submitting a Job There are two sets of methods of running programs and jobs on the HBS compute... View Details

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