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27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

bonds, a standard measurement used by investment firms. He then matched the data against instances of wrongdoing covering a six-year period. The more the portfolio balance tipped toward stocks, the greater the chance of trouble.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

“Contact tracing is a 500-year-old solution. It was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

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Political News

legislative and regulatory insights, data tools, and resources for policy research. You can find news by category or do a keyword search. Factiva: aggregates articles from thousands of national and local newspapers, magazines, trade... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

An Electrifying Tale

fire alarm, security, and data lines — which is expected to grow to $10 million. For the employees, a stock ownership plan is in the works. “I want it to be a flourishing company that I’ll feel really proud of twenty years from now,”... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

09 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 9

there is a paradox inherent in the social imprinting of WISEs: although it directly enhances their social performance, it also indirectly weakens it by negatively affecting economic productivity. Results based on panel data of French... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

HBS Social Enterprise Initiative executive director Stacey Childress discusses the study and its implications for investors. Salls: Tell us about the study. What did the team set out to do? Childress: A team of three MBA 2003 students, Steven Carden, Hank Midgley, and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

24 Mar 2021
News

Outsider-Insider Named CEO of Amazon Web Services

CEO of cloud data company Tableau; before that, he spent 11 years working alongside Jassy, running sales, marketing, and support at AWS. As reported by CNN, Jassy cited that experience, as well as Selipsky’s many skills—including... View Details

Keywords: Amazon; online retail; leadership; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

18 Nov 2010
News

Lessons from the Classroom: Data.gov

Keywords: Professor Karim Lakhani; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2022
Chapter

Measuring Compliance Risk and the Emergence of Analytics

By: Eugene F. Soltes

Corporate compliance manages a diverse set of regulatory and reputational concerns ranging from fraud to privacy to discrimination. However, effectively managing such risks has often been hampered by a lack of adequate information about when, where, and why misconduct... View Details

Keywords: Compliance; Risk; Analytics; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Analytics and Data Science

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11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

really taking advantage of the opportunities for visibility that hackathons have to offer. To test the evangelizing effectiveness of hackathons, the researchers conducted a large‐scale quantitative study of 1,302 developers and 167 hackathons. They started by taking... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

05 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

beautiful campus facilities/amenities make it harder for HBCUs to attract the enrollments they need to cover costs. The most recent federal data shows that in fall 2017, enrollment into these historical Black universities and colleges was... View Details

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Movies: statistics

Where can I find statistics about movies and movie theaters? S&P Capital IQ Pro: Select Industries - Technology, Media & Telecommunications for View Details

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Generational demographics

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Enables creation of maps and tables for the United States that incorporate data such as population, age, race, income,... View Details

14 May 2013
Blog Post

MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans

Village staff, program alumni, successful start-ups, early stage start-ups, impact investors, and the head of the Louisiana Buyout Fund. We also looked at recently released data from the Greater New Orleans Community View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Library you can engage with cultural artifacts and vital historical records; utilize our world-class digital collections, research tools, and curriculum support; explore the inspiring physical and digital spaces that enrich our community; and experiment with powerful... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)

in college was mathematics. I’m really interested in politics, and I’m really interested in analytic thinking. Data journalism feels like the ultimate place where politics and math meet. For a while I worked for David Garth on different... View Details

Keywords: elections; consulting; analysis; polls

01 Dec 2014
News

Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future

Production with Principles Áslaug Magnúsdóttir Customizing Couture Online Customizing Couture Online Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Katrina Lake Dressing by Number Dressing by Number Karen Moon Making Big View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; technology

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

discussions that we’ve had” The case study, written by HBS’s Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and head of the Technology and Operations Management unit, focuses on the data analysis used by the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details