big data - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

example, because the data sources and credit histories that firms draw on in the West don't exist in emerging markets. Market research and advertising are in their infancy in developing countries, and it's difficult to find the deep... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

20 Aug 2024
Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

within your own ecosystem, you can become more proactive in harnessing their resources, such as data and infrastructure, for innovation and growth. In today’s digital age, it isn’t daunting to utilize resources from tech giants to fuel... View Details

Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

scholarly–and other–critiques of capitalism and big business resort to stereotypes and generalizations, sweeping the good, the bad, and the ugly into an amorphous single entity. Engaging seriously with the past can be liberating and... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

cluster analysis on all whole-body donors' data from the Universities of California at Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Two donor groups emerge from the analyses: One is made of slightly younger, educated, married... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

census data on retail stores located in England, Sadun found that stricter planning restrictions against big-box stores actually coincided with independent retailers closing down or hiring fewer workers, a signal their business was... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

hammered home the need for companies to return to stressing the basics: hiring good people, producing a good product, delivering it and supporting it. For the first time in history, he said, companies have an unprecedented amount of data... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

lights when we leave the room or recycling our bottles," Karmarkar says. "Bringing bags is interesting in that it's a difficult thing to remember to do, and actually requires a fairly big behavioral change on the part of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

course, referred to a type of analytic data that might suggest nontraditional indicators designed to provide a competitive edge in everything from investments to selection of talent. One such example is the use of puzzles to select... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

it, students get a hands-on sense of what is unique about digital economics and business models, from new businesses like 3-D printing to "classics" like Facebook. They also do a deep dive into data analytics. "There are... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

transition. The researchers examined data during the months before and after the CEO change, including the average number of: Meetings employees attended Attendees per meeting Internal emails Recipients per email The researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

organizations in 20 countries, they and their interview team assessed how well manufacturers, schools, and hospitals adhere to three management basics: targets, incentives, and monitoring. They found that huge numbers of companies follow none of those fundamentals,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

opportunity, to get engaged. At the Kumbh Mela there was a central administration for the festival, much as there would be for a big state fair in the United States. It worked in coordination with the smaller religious groups as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

have to put your participant in a situation in which they can picture themselves. One of the famous negotiations that a lot of research is based on is buying and selling a refrigerator on a wholesale level. It's just not something that most of the students we collect... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

diseases, treatments, and procedures. The data would be made publicly available after a waiting period during which providers could correct any errors. Over time, information about providers' risk-adjusted medical outcomes also would need... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

San Diego—brings “significant and long-lasting” benefits, including greater economic growth, global talent, and even more invention to these regions, write William Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Brad... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

on with X.” Global sales are critical to the success of most big businesses. In fact, for companies in the S&P 500, some 46 percent of sales came from outside the United States in 2011. "When nearly half of anything a firm does is X,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

undertaking. The data are all publicly available, and have been for decades; it was just a question of looking at the data in such a way as to test whether the structure of the Executive Board led to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

what we find using data from the online platform we study, but we also confirmed this result in a nationally representative survey of consumers. At the market level, we find that more stringent occupational licensing regulation actually... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

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