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18 Nov 2010
News

Lessons from the Classroom: Data.gov

Keywords: Professor Karim Lakhani; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

antitrust authorities, who fear they could ultimately harm consumers by raising prices above typical competitive levels. It doesn’t seem too long ago when a price change was a major strategic decision for companies, requiring extensive View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

evaluate the appearance of the hundreds of thousands of images, the authors used data from a crowdsourced study conducted by Hidalgo’s team in 2013. In the study, online participants were shown pairs of Street View images (chosen from a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

their study on France, having gained access to two valuable data sets: The first contained the entire debt portfolio for most of the 300 largest French local governments as of December 31, 2007; and the second contained the loan-level... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

says. “What we’re asking is, can we build algorithms that will help find better matches that will allow people to integrate more easily?” The paper presents data from Switzerland and the United States that showed promise in using machine... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

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Business conditions in countries worldwide

getting electricity, and licenses. Scores and rankings are provided. Browse by an economy or a topic. Note: this program was paused after data irregularities were identified for 2018 and 2020. The program will resume... View Details

May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
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Asea Brown Boveri: The ABACUS System

By: Robert L. Simons

Describes the computer-based information system (ABACUS) used to monitor and control business operations in a complex, global company. Describes the technical attributes of the database system, financial reporting requirements, target setting and profit calculations on... View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Profit; Business Growth and Maturation; Analytics and Data Science; Design; Accounting Audits; Growth and Development; Globalized Firms and Management; Complexity; Technology Industry

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03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

health care system could similarly gather and publish relevant data on health care prices and outcomes. Then corporations could see which clinicians, hospitals, insurers, and others provide the best value. The good ones would thrive, and... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

19 Jan 2016
News

Electric Avenues

and 20 international public partners, says program manager Paige Fitzgerald (MBA/MPP 2014): In Los Angeles, it’s working with city government to push out Amber Alerts; in Rio, garbage truck drivers are using traffic data to alter their... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

and other data series: Economist Intelligence Unit: India... View Details

24 Jul 2017
News

Back to School for Big-City Mayors

on July 17, is bringing together 40 mayors, 30 of them from American cities, such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Phoenix, and Mobile. The concept behind the program is to teach the mayors how to think like a CEO in handling everything from potholes to policing, complete... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we empirically examined—using digital View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2010
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Get Well Soon

to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for the clinic’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

24 Mar 2021
News

Outsider-Insider Named CEO of Amazon Web Services

CEO of cloud data company Tableau; before that, he spent 11 years working alongside Jassy, running sales, marketing, and support at AWS. As reported by CNN, Jassy cited that experience, as well as Selipsky’s many skills—including... View Details

Keywords: Amazon; online retail; leadership; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

November 2021 (Revised December 2021)
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PittaRosso (B): Human and Machine Learning

By: Ayelet Israeli

This case supplements the "PittaRosso: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Pricing and Promotion" case, and provides major highlights on what happened at the company since the first case. View Details

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08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how US branch-banking deregulations affected the entry and exit of firms in the non-financial sector using establishment-level data... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

discussions that we’ve had” The case study, written by HBS’s Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and head of the Technology and Operations Management unit, focuses on the data analysis used by the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty Krishna Palepu and Paul Healy, in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Boston

and economic information and data United States Census Bureau: American Community Survey Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: View Details

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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 file to your computer Open file in... View Details

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