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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services

Data Storage Working with Spaces, Files & Folders 30ms As you work with research storage, please consider its intended uses and disk quotas . We also provide information below about how to access controls and edit permissions for... View Details

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Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches

By: Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma and Charles C.Y. Wang

Applying a "co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR web-site, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent... View Details

Keywords: Peer Firm; EDGAR Search Traffic; Revealed Preference; Co-search; Industry Classification; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Mathematical Methods; Corporate Finance

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17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

work? A: Unfortunately the method is quite difficult to implement—it took us many months to do it properly, and it required mutual fund holdings data that costs tens of thousands of dollars (which the HBS Division of Research was kind... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

investment lifecycle. Access via SSO - HBS email and Harvard Key login name/email must match. Email infoservices@hbs.edu if you have trouble accessing Pitchbook. Capital IQ Data on PE transactions, public and private companies,... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Vietnam

Region/Country, deselect all and re-select your GEO country. Then enter industry or company keywords. Can search in multiple languages. View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Finland

target="_blank">Statista Useful for: country specific data using Statista's Consumer Market Outlook, Digital... View Details

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Mason Watson | MBA

Mason Watson Computer Science/Statistics Leverett 2021 Cohort 2 I'm excited to learn and connect with other great people who are interested in technology and its potential benefits! Tech areas of interest: EdTech, Data Science, Machine... View Details

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FactSet | Baker Library

FactSet Financial data analysis platform to analyze data from global equity and fixed income markets. Read More Coverage includes data and information on ownership and private... View Details

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Mohammed Guerrab | MBA

interest: Cloud, AI and ML, Digital health, Data science Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: This past academic year, I worked with the Harvard Data Analytics Group where I... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Kyruus, a Boston-based firm he cofounded that helps health care systems to manage their provider data and make it easier to connect patients with the right care—steps that ultimately benefit both patients and practitioners. Gardner... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Fumi Tamaki

In college, Fumi Tamaki pursued economics and international studies, because she thought “it would help me understand how governments and businesses work.” To apply what she learned, she joined Charles River Associates as an antitrust consultant. “I learned how to use... View Details

20 Oct 2015
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What Government Can Learn From Baseball

Keywords: Government

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FIELD Global Immersion: South Korea

and reselect your FGI country. Then enter industry or company keywords. Can search in multiple languages. Statista Useful for: country specific data using Statista's Consumer... View Details

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Betas

the ticker symbol (e.g., IBM) then click on "equity," type "beta," then click on GO. For historical averages, change the date range. To change the default index, change the mnemonic for index. Capital IQ Data on... View Details

2021
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Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage

By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein

How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source... View Details

Keywords: Server Software; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Economics; Value Creation; Measurement and Metrics

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01 Sep 2020
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Road Work

Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s borrowers are undocumented immigrants to the United States.... View Details

Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance

06 Oct 2011
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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

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Carbon emissions: basic information, prices

How can I get prices and basic information on carbon emissions trading? Bloomberg has data on prices. Use one of the following commands: EMIT EMIS EMMK NI ecredits (for news) Carbon Disclosure Project has View Details

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Career Outcomes | Research Associates

This role has helped past employees succeed in roles such as lawyers, data scientists, entrepreneurs, consultants, project managers, and more. We often hear from previous employees that enhancing their abilities in researching, writing,... View Details

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Forecasts: economic, industry, and country

selection(s). In Step 4, choose desired years for the forecast(s) and add the selection. Click View Data. Bloomberg Provides two years of forecast data for 42 countries. Type ECFC and press... View Details

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