big data - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

technology, culture, and industrial composition. To tackle these issues we collected detailed information on the internal organization of firms across nations. The few datasets that exist are either from a single industry or (at best) across many firms in a single... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

OKRs From Individual Contributor to Manager - Adapting Your Work Style Hiring Fast and Firing Faster Making Decisions with Imperfect Data Managing Cross-Functional Teams Managing Pivots and Setbacks Managing Your Career: Should I Stay or... View Details

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

in very liberal counties,” according to the paper. “A majority of financial backers for typical Kickstarter campaigns live more than 50 miles away from the creator they support, tending to reside in big cities like Seattle and New York,”... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

short horizon and the volatility of their stock, this does not apply to the association between short-termism and cost of capital. We interpret this as evidence that our short-termism measure captures a dimension of non-diversifiable risk in the economy. Q: What is the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

not initially interested in a role because it is not quite big enough or broad enough for her, they’ll often say, ‘OK, OK. You can have this other division of the company as well.’ They will absolutely happily pay more for women. There is... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 11

of its top customers to nontraditional competitors-IBM and SAP on the one hand, big data start-ups on the other-offering data-intensive, analytics-based services that could connect to any industrial device.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

changed drastically in recent years. The growth in the e-commerce market had declined significantly. Furthermore, the advancement of AI and big data was turning shopping into a boundaryless... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6

document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and prices fall relative to... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

24 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

reviews over professional critics, but also because of its historical database that tracks every review. Luca compared the ratings over time with revenue data from the state of Washington to gauge how reviews impacted restaurants' bottom... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

It’s no secret that fierce competition from Amazon puts downward pressure on prices charged by Walmart and other big multichannel retailers for the same items. However, the bigger “Amazon effect” relates not to the prices themselves but... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

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 View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

the money, or the need for more big science.) Solutions involving gray (built) or green (natural) infrastructure rely on the human infrastructure – the infrastructure for collaboration. Business leaders – from established companies to... View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

valuation. The average CAPE from 1900 through 2017 is 16.9; it is currently 31.5. Figure 3: Risk in U.S. Government Bond, High Yield, Real Estate, and U.S. Equity Markets Sources:Data for Treasury yields, BoAML yield, Case-Schiller index from St. Louis Fed FRED... View Details

14 Sep 2018
Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

and data science. We even have a political-science-major-turned-software-engineer who learned to code at Dev Bootcamp. 2. There’s a wide range of industry experience I also expected everyone to come from a View Details

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

biggest problems in innovation is that it can generate uncertainty, says Thomke. Even in an age of Big Data, companies are stymied by the fact that they don’t know what they don’t know. “If something is very novel, there is little View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

for neural networks increase, as does accessibility to off-the-shelf APIs from big tech and academic institutions that help speed up innovation. Entrepreneurs have also learned the wisdom of targeting AI applications toward specific,... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

"This course is about the big ideas of finance, and how they map the most important business and life decisions people make." Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Jul 09 6 Weeks $1,850 + applicable... View Details

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

products. Often, she saw a big disconnect between what people said they did and what they actually did. In focus groups, for example, women would say they changed their razor blades regularly. Only when researchers visited consumers in... View Details