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01 Mar 2025
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On The Case: The Base Factor

in a workshop style: Ascarza gives the students several slices of data from the historical transactional records of the disguised retailer and asks them to open their laptops and take a few minutes to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

is establishing your authenticity in this space," Lipstein said. DrivenData hosts online challenges, usually lasting two to three months, in which data scientists compete to come up with the best statistical models for tricky community... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

paper. The Research The researchers studied data from OutsourceCo (a pseudonym), a major provider of outsourced teleradiology services in the United States, with more than 1,400 client sites, mainly hospitals and radiology group... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

05 Sep 2017
News

Living the Quantitative Life

works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years of data about himself. He and I... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

impact the public sector,” she says. This is, admittedly, a daunting undertaking that will require untold amounts of data and research — and funding. But Sadun says that’s a credit to another unique characteristic of her work-place. “HBS... View Details

03 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

outside manager, the merchant should be clear on what practices the program will permit and to not assume outsourced managers will always act in the merchant's best interest. ("Quite the contrary, our data suggests that they often will... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

concurrent data from all members of the supply chain, and the Internet-based technologies discussed above are rapidly proving to be the preferred channels for these data. In addition to enabling rich point-to-point links, the Internet is... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

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Finding a Time Series of Stock Prices in CRSP

Query Data Request Summary window will open Right mouse click on the highlighted file name Choose Save Target As option Save as a .txt file to your computer Open file in Excel View Details

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Finding Historical Financial Statements with Compustat | Baker Library

main WRDS search page (Note: Highlight the ticker symbol and manually copy and paste it into the search box rather than using the Code List feature in the Code Lookup window) Click Submit Query Data Request Summary window will View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

Sciences (SEAS), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences debuted the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP), an online certificate offering for executives focused on quantitative analysis and data science. A few months later, the first... View Details

19 Oct 2012
News

Past and Present

making decisions based on imperfect information,” he recalls, adding that it was important to keep an open mind and be willing to change one’s opinion. The kind of decision-making skills and flexibility that Sullivan learned through the... View Details

Keywords: genealogy; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

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Finding Historical Financial Statements with Compustat

feature in the Code Lookup window) Click Submit Query Data Request Summary window will open Right mouse click on the highlighted file name Choose Save Target As option Save as a .xls... View Details

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

data to find patterns and build an algorithm based on that data. But even with the seeming data dominance, the toddler who’s seen a few dogs has an advantage over the algorithm that has seen millions, says... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

01 Mar 2017
News

Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact

this past fall with an open challenge: choose an organization whose operating model will be significantly affected by climate change, and tell us what it should be doing to address it. Students posted responses to the prompt on HBS’s... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Boston census microdata

Where and how can I access census microdata for Boston? The Boston Census Research Data Center (BRDC) is a partnership between the U.S. Census... View Details

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Bloomberg | Baker Library

Bloomberg Financial data on equities, indices, currencies, commodities and futures. Read More Provides company profiles and financial statements, analysts' forecasts, worldwide financial market news, audio and video interviews and... View Details

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Capital IQ | Baker Library

Capital IQ Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Includes S&P RatingsDirect. Read More Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital... View Details

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Income distribution: countries

20%, etc. Select Years. Note that the data may not be available for all countries for all years. Select a wide range of years. Economist Intelligence Unit: EIU Data Services - Market Indicators &... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn

help students understand the School's perspectives. Laying the facts on the table and helping all parties to understand each other is the most exciting piece of the job.” “If I've learned one thing, it's to analyze problems with an open... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Brill

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