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VCPE Database Comparison | Baker Library

Strong Standard Verticals Strong Solid Strong for tech related verticals None. Recommend using keyword search in Business Description Geographic Granularity Zip level City level City Level Zip level Downloading Extremely limited (10 rows of View Details

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Preview the Harvard Business School Online Learning Experience

Data & Analytics E-Book Gain an introduction to data literacy that can put you on track to be a data-driven professional. Download for Free Financial Terms Cheat Sheet This cheat sheet defines several... View Details

11 Dec 2017
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Growing from Within

locations in the US, and counts consumer experience, increased sales, and sustainable profits among his charges. We asked him about the pros of corporate ownership, the data that drives his strategy, and—naturally—his regular order.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2016
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Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?

work. “There is some visceral discomfort with simply giving poor people money,” says Faye, now chairman of the board. “But the evidence, overwhelmingly, is that cash is one of the most effective ways of alleviating poverty.” In its reliance on View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1998
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Beyond the Numbers

tell a tale, the unassuming Robinson is a kind of John Grisham of the corporate financial world. For the past 25 years, he has been teasing out the narrative thread behind companies' financial data and helping them use the information to... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

24 Jul 2009
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Business Summit: Business Education in the 21st Century

data about the challenges facing the business education marketplace and presented qualitative information on innovations in top MBA programs. On the whole, MBA programs are in decline. Their value is being questioned, and they are seen as... View Details

Keywords: Re: Srikant M. Datar; Education

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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

hospitals and providers Encourage rural providers to affiliate with qualifying centers of excellence for more complex care and fully integrate telemedicine in care networks by eliminating state-based licencing requirements for providers Set standards for common View Details

19 Aug 2016
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Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets

lenders a better understanding of both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. Based on psychometrics research conducted at the Harvard Center for International Development, the questions on this test seek not to mimic the data... View Details

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Cookie Information | HBS Online

specific functions when you access or use our Services. The data collected or generated by these technologies helps us perform a variety of functions such as operating the Services, measuring and improving the performance of the Services,... View Details

06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work

companies that offer it, but almost immediately Auerbach recognized two fundamental problems. First, no one knew how to talk about flexibility. Second, no one had the data to understand the business benefits of it. The New York City–based... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Ask the Expert: Star Search

retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is strategic, too, analyzing View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools

What GIS resources are available to Harvard affiliates? Harvard provides access to several tools that allow you to map data: SimplyAnalytics: web-based mapping tool that incorporates market research data from Experian... View Details

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Mutual Funds: Fees

Where do I find the fee structure of a mutual fund? Morningstar Principia: has data on mutual funds including fee structure. (Note: There is a 100 record download limit.) Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) in View Details

25 Feb 2020
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

Administration. “The traditional model has been turned upside down. Having the data to innovate at scale is now the main thing.” Lakhani and Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, are frequent... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Jan 2014
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How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

for America, which describes itself as the "Peace Corps for Geeks." Its coders take publicly available data and use technology to visualize the work of government for the public in accessible ways. In Boston, for example, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Feb 2012
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When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

other end of the spectrum, researchers can obtain false positives by running statistical tests over and over until they find the result they are looking for, or by excluding data after looking at how doing so might affect the results. The... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library

Angeles in the 1940s. Robert Lehman, ca. 1915. Lehman Brothers Records, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Manhattan: William Street, 1923. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. Digital Equipment Corporation. Programmed View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Sparking Internet Commerce

reflects what they like, for example, in books or music. Online services equipped with Firefly's "relationship management" and "advanced personalization" software (such as bookseller Barnes & Noble or information provider My Yahoo!) digest this View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Airline industry: overviews & statistics

Australian, and global markets Statista - quick statistics and articles on the topic Additional resource: United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics Federal Aviation Administration Global and European Air Transport Monthly Monitor by UN ICAO Eurostat: Air... View Details

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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services

Data Storage Working with Spaces, Files & Folders 67ms As you work with research storage, please consider its intended uses and disk quotas . We also provide information below about how to access controls and edit permissions for... View Details

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