big data - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

hard to remember a time when they weren’t a regular part of civic conversation. But as Rivkin notes, the data pointed to such concerns long before 2016. “Those of us working on the US Competitiveness Project came to the perspective that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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

28 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

when big scandals happen, like Enron and WorldCom, the weak link often turns out to be auditors. Managers are mostly truth-tellers but have incentives to embellish and sometimes commit fraud. So we rely on auditors to mitigate that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting

Profile

Mollie Breen

contest. But Girl Starter did get Mollie started in the interdisciplinary world of business. "In the show, every episode ended with a pitch," Mollie explains. "I focused mine on data and algorithms. Then I realized I didn't... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

novel dataset on algorithmic programming contests that contains data on individual effort, risk taking, and cognitive errors that may underlie tournament performance outcomes. We find that competitors on average react negatively to an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

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

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 Jun 2024
News

Competing in the Age of AI

when asked about daily usage. “We have a problem,” Lakhani told the gathering. “There’s a big knowing-doing divide.” Read more about From Chalkboards to Chatbots Lakhani has made it his mission to help business leaders bridge that divide... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

retribution. Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future By Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) and Venkat Venkatraman Harvard Business School Press Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First View Details

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

accelerated since the 1990s. (Work by a number of other economists, disputed at times, suggests that inequality of wealth is associated with slowing economic growth.) To Piketty's way of thinking, forces leading to inequality are so serious that they threaten... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

effects in teams, meaning that they default to using the expertise of high-status members while becoming less effective at using team members with deep client knowledge. I test the model in a field study of 100+ accounting and consulting teams from a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

preliminary results of the Retirement Transitions Study in August at the Academy of Management Conference in Chicago. She is still analyzing the data for a working paper with co-authors Lotte Bailyn of the Sloan School at the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

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

15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

needs to decide whether to continue efforts to convince one of the big three console makers (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) to enable the EPOC on their platform or to settle for the PC gaming market. Alternatively, the company could have chosen a... View Details