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13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of opening physical retail stores on direct channel sales. Our... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2014
News

Dressing by Number

recommended clothing based on the data they provide; clients purchase only the items they love. The more information a customer gives Stitch Fix—the initial “style profile,” shared Pinterest boards, feedback on what works and what doesn’t... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; cosmetics; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

31 Mar 2023
News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Who We Are | Research Associates

me to do the research, writing, and organization, which is a lot of fun. Sarah Abbott, BA, Trinity College; Political Science, MSc., Oxford University; MBA, Columbia Business School, Finance 0 This job really offered the opportunity to learn to use View Details

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Political News

legislative and regulatory insights, data tools, and resources for policy research. You can find news by category or do a keyword search. Factiva: aggregates articles from thousands of national and local newspapers, magazines, trade... View Details

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Foreign direct investment: statistics

Where can I get information on foreign direct investment? Economist Intelligence Unit Country Data On the right side of the screen under Reports, click on DataTool In Step 1, choose All CountryData from the drop-down. Choose... View Details

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RCP Terms of Service - Research Computing Services

provide you with an account to the Research Computing Platform (RCP). You are responsible for following all applicable Harvard University policies, including but not limited to the Harvard Research Data Security Policy and Harvard... View Details

20 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

The study results also have broader implications, providing important insight into what sparks antisocial behavior that a variety of businesses can consider when they embark on designing everything from stadium seating to office layouts. Norton is trying to obtain... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

the same problems as Bitcoin. There's no reason for the regular consumer to use it” Even recent high-profile data breaches have not led consumers to abandon credit cards in significant numbers. "Security doesn't work for the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

and analysis," says Quelch. A Smoking Market Uncertainty over health data hasn't hurt the product's popularity. In 2013, electronic cigarettes tripled in sales in the US to approximately $3 billion. (The overall tobacco retail market... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26

data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match with workgroup superiors and workgroup peers on attorneys' likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

households, or masters of the universe on Wall Street, rely on their own personal experience when forming judgments about the financial future. That means the average chief executive of an investment bank was working on data going back no... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

Sentiment and the Price of Corporate Sustainability, takes public sentiment data around sustainability activities obtained from TruValue Labs, culled from news stories, industry analysts, NGOs, and think tanks, and combines it with... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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SAS/CONNECT - Research Computing Services

PC SAS version 9.3 or 9.4 to connect to SAS 9.2 on the server): Compute Services (CS) Remote Library Services (RLS) Give user access to all of the computing resources on the remote host. Give user access to all the data regardless of... View Details

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Compensation data: private equity

Where can I find compensation data for post-MBA roles on the buy-side? The print reports listed below are available in the Stamps Reading Room for in-library use by authorized View Details

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers produce better stories by supplying feedback... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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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05 May 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

says Iyer. "But we found exactly the opposite." When the researchers examined 22 years worth of data on reported crimes in a variety of gender-specific and gender-nonspecific categories they were initially surprised by what they... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

analytics-focused consulting firm made sense at a time when technology breakthroughs were fueling exponential growth in data generation and consumption. His three former employers—Answerthink, Bain, and Dow—quickly became the startup’s... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

and content on DocSend’s platform, which is used daily by organizations across a variety of sales contexts. The result is empirical data and a good starting point for examining core aspects of any content marketing initiative. The authors... View Details