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10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

HBS Social Enterprise Initiative executive director Stacey Childress discusses the study and its implications for investors. Salls: Tell us about the study. What did the team set out to do? Childress: A team of three MBA 2003 students, Steven Carden, Hank Midgley, and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Video Management Policy | About

capabilities and are properly trained in system use and playback policies. In each case where video is accessed, the individual accessing the system shall keep an appropriately detailed record including name, access date, time, purpose, View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

An Electrifying Tale

fire alarm, security, and data lines — which is expected to grow to $10 million. For the employees, a stock ownership plan is in the works. “I want it to be a flourishing company that I’ll feel really proud of twenty years from now,”... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

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HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

private investment lifecycle. Individual accounts are required to access. Strict data download limit. Preqin
Information on PE & VC firms, funds,... View Details

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

really taking advantage of the opportunities for visibility that hackathons have to offer. To test the evangelizing effectiveness of hackathons, the researchers conducted a large‐scale quantitative study of 1,302 developers and 167 hackathons. They started by taking... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

05 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

beautiful campus facilities/amenities make it harder for HBCUs to attract the enrollments they need to cover costs. The most recent federal data shows that in fall 2017, enrollment into these historical Black universities and colleges was... View Details

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

underlying this micro-process research. Analysis of the rate of citation of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational studies research reveals that open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Blog

Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

what might happen next. Last spring, we conducted an inventory of DEI data from departments across the School, to better understand who was doing what, if there were successes we could build off of, or if there were any gaps in current... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck

do not waste. I hope it truly brings predictability to innovation that historically we just have not had before. Why do managers ignore the motivations of their customers? Is part of it because they are now awash with data and fetishize... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Delivering Trust

fertility doctors and 90 percent of all clinics in the United States. “High-quality assessments are the lifeblood of what we’re offering,” he adds. “Every new review helps hopeful parents and women trying to have a baby.” FertilityIQ launched in February; until then,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2015
News

Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

of internationalizing firms’ policies that require employees of diverse skill sets to adopt English as their business language. For the past four years, with extensive support from the School’s research centers in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, she has gathered View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2024
News

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

01 Jun 2020
News

All Hands on Deck

number of Harvard Business School Online courses, such as Global Business and Leading with Finance, as well as in a data science bootcamp designed to teach students how to leverage big data throughout their... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

In it, I compared data collected from the offices of a large marketing services firm to which I had been given unusual access. Here are some data from employee engagement studies, human resource reports, and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Entrepreneurial Marketing

SimplyAnalytics: for B2C, map out consumers, business counts, and other criteria using Census data and Nielsen and Simmons psychographic data. Tegus: searchable database of transcripts of expert calls between investors and... View Details

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

probabilities below present values," adding that failing to do so could lead to losses upwards of $1 trillion annually. "Most skeptics I have come across are not skeptical of global warming or climate change itself, but argue that we don't have View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Online AI Course | HBS Online

diverse applications of AI, machine learning, predictive modeling, and data science Explore ethical AI-related challenges to implement it responsibly and manage risks Develop the skills and frameworks to shape your organization’s digital... View Details

26 Jan 2016
First Look

January 26, 2016

entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the... View Details