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- 22 May 2024
- HBS Case
Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore
TikTok knows what users care about, it serves them more content they may enjoy. Users feed the app data all the time because TikTok makes it fun to create and consume. And the algorithm can then serve a wider variety of content to see... View Details
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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
data on 1920s home prices and foreclosures means that many questions remain unanswered. 22 Historical trade publications like the weekly New York Real Estate Record and Builder’s Guide, of which Baker Library holds a sixty-year run, allow... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that is more detailed than the US Census data economists typically examine. In addition, they relied on a database called the Billion Prices Project, which Cavallo first developed as a Ph.D. student at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?
Online Micro Data. Early in the pandemic, Cavallo says, he thought stockouts would ease within a few months. “The composition of the stockouts changed over time. The temporary ones, which are visible in empty shelves or out-of-stock signs... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Robert Schultz of the University of Michigan, the paper uses the quirks of an online auction to quantify just how much social influence matters when it comes to what people will pay. The... View Details
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Research Computing Services - Faculty & Research
Data wrangling Database management Web scraping Research Software RCS purchases most research software used at HBS. HBS has site or volume licenses for several packages (e.g., Stata, SAS) for desktop use,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
that increase confidence in a person’s entrepreneurial abilities. Like the conviction of Marla Malcolm Beck and husband Barry Beck that high-end beauty retail stores and spas, tightly coupled with online stores, was the business model of... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
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Training Materials - Research Computing Services
Data Management RDM at HBS HBS-specific slide decks Data Management Checklist Data Services at HBS Class Handouts Borghi et al 2018 RDM Review General and Harvard RDM General... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
so far). “In order to collect this data, we had to create our own operations, mostly at the London School of Economics,” says Sadun. Over time, the researchers employed more than 100 graduate students, overseeing them with quality and performance measures to ensure the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
http://www.amazon.com/Land-Bargains-Chinese-Capitalism-Politics/dp/1107539870/ May 2015 Journal of Economic Perspectives Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore Abstract—Bitcoin is an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
unemployment has been hovering at historic lows; in April, it sank to 3.4 percent, a figure not seen since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. US Chamber of Commerce analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the first part... View Details
- 10 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle
closely, the researchers conducted an online survey of nearly 600 people in the United States, asking them to recall their social interactions the previous day and categorize them into categories like stranger, acquaintance, friend, or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
Operations Management Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi Abstract—We present our work with an online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes the information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
United Kingdom that requires firms to disclose 2017 gender pay gap ("GPG") data for the first time, we find that providing voluntary gender diversity disclosure in 2016 is correlated with having a worse gender pay gap in 2017. Our results... View Details
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HBS - Key Metrics
Multi-Race / Non-Hispanic 2% 2% 1% — — Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander <1% 0% 0% — — White 53% 43% 22% — — Prefer not to answer 4% 0% — — — Did Not Report / Unknown 10% 26% 64% — — HBS Online 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Enrollment... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
online discount vouchers, a new marketing tool that offers consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating merchants' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos The Revolution in Advertising: From Don Draper to Big Data Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales What do you think? What big flops... View Details
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne