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Advertising: rates/costs

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REITs (real estate investment trusts)

REITs, and publicly-traded real estate companies. S&P NetAdvantage: S&P's REIT Industry Survey provides a good overview of real estate investment trusts. Also available under Markets > Industry Survey in Capital IQ. To screen for REITs or get View Details

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

cities across 192 countries. The researchers found that black hosts were charging approximately 12 percent less for rental properties than were nonblack hosts. Analyzing a data set that focuses on New York City (the company's biggest... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance, demonstrating that the increase in extra life year gains by relaxing certain fairness constraints can be as high as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Statista | Baker Library

data and facts from a wide range of sources onto a single platform. Sources of information include market research, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. Get Access HBS Faculty, Students, and Staff Remote... View Details

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Finalists | New Venture Competition

Finalists Business Track, 2024 Aria Reese Donohue (MBA 2024) Aria is a B2B SaaS platform that transforms shared spaces into hyper-personalized environments. BEAM Nathan Dass (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MBA 2025) We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to satellite... View Details

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Company demographics by size and state

Where can I find statistics on US businesses by size and state? The Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy Data on Small Businesses curates a list of sources for View Details

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Pitchbook | Baker Library

10 daily and 25 monthly rows of data downloads. Profile views are limited to 250 per day. Faculty and staff with Harvard University account codes can purchase additional data download capabilities of 1000... View Details

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

Established in 1997, the program provides health insurance to uninsured children in moderate-income families. To research the link between SCHIP and entrepreneurship, Olds studied 1992-2011 data from the United States Census Bureau's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

10 Jun 2021
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Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

Series C start-up, in New York that provided data intelligence software to large enterprises. She later returned to Europe to join her family investment firm, Atlas Invest, investing in energy companies. Product-Market-Founder Fit During... View Details

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Archiving Your Research Files - Research Computing Services

Technical How-To’s & Notes Technical How-To’s & Notes Archiving Your Research Files Archive your files to an external drive or DVD by doing the following: Put the data or project files in a subdirectory Run the script called make-archive... View Details

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

inequality. This result is robust to using regression and matching approaches, and to controlling for a host of potential confounders. Contrary to the effects of tax cuts, we find no effects of tax increases on income inequality at the state level. We then use View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2005
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The Best Place for Retirement Funds

thinking about where to hold them, specifically, inside or outside of tax-deferred accounts. "Getting this decision right can be pretty close to a free lunch," says Bergstresser, who with colleague James Poterba, a professor at MIT's Department of Economics,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

Rene C. McPherson

programming language also enabled the company to prosper exponentially through the advent of the internet and its intense requirement for large-scale, real-time data processing. View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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Special purpose acquisition companies

Business Review article: SPACs: what you need to know. Additionally, LSEG Workspace, Pitchbook, Bloomberg, and and Capital IQ provide data on SPACs: In LSEG... View Details

10 Jun 2013
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How Numbers Talk to People

The problem with big data is that there is, well, so much of it. Analyzing it is like trying to sip from a firehose. Just in time, a new book on the art and science of quantitative analysis arrives this week. In Keeping Up with the... View Details

28 Nov 2011
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Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

A proposal out of Harvard and MIT to rethink how kidney transplants are allocated could result in a fairer system giving patients longer lives. The new empirical model, which is intensely data driven, would provide a flexible framework to... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health

28 Apr 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

materiality map. Once I did that, I was able to come to the conclusion that acquiring a leading ESG position would potentially help this company gain market share during an upcoming industry consolidation post the Covid-19 crisis. I evaluated the company’s utility... View Details

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Digital Marketing Workshop - Course Catalog

marketing prowess over seven weeks of hands-on exercises and data analysis straight from the trenches. You will be taught by the best of the best experts from the leading performance marketing firms in North America, who collectively... View Details

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HBS - From The Dean

vision, we must embrace digitalization to a much greater extent. The digital transformation effort we launched is exploring how we can use data and technology to fundamentally rethink aspects of our organization and activities. It’s a... View Details

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