big data - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

Bridgitt Evans Executive Director, Harvard Innovation Labs NURTURING BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS From Big Pharma to Startup Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan Bridging the ESG Data Gap View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

benchmarks? Defining what growth means Pisano and colleagues fill that gap in a new paper, Long-Term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of US Manufacturers 1959—2015, published in the journal Industrial and Corporate Change, the first systemic attempt to look at real... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

However, higher wages could also be unrelated to theft if honesty only depended on the workers' moral values, if workers were unaware of wages paid by the competition, or if they overlooked wage deviations by reassessing the value of their own inputs. For the study,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

01 Jan 2017
News

Improving Health Care Delivery

through big data by offsetting the cost of collection and analysis and by tapping into the tremendous amount of existing medical information available. “I think HBS can be a leader in making use of that... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

(CEJST) breaks down the different dimensions that qualify a census tract as a DAC, and its data could be applicable in other contexts as well. One of the foundational pieces of how EJ applies to the world is understanding the existence of... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

will be a combination of case discussions, guests, panels, and workshops. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate The advent of new technologies and big data promise to revolutionize the... View Details

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

to going to HBS, it wasn’t until I took “Investing in the 21st Century: Return, Risk and Impact,” taught by Professors Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi, that I had a chance to learn about what impact investing was and understand how big the... View Details

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

Imagine a future in which a smart marketing machine can predict the needs and habits of individual consumers and the dynamics of competitors across industries and markets. This device would collect data to answer strategic questions,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

Little did the researchers know at the time how difficult it would be to extract the data for analysis. That task fell to Toffel, who was still completing his doctoral studies at Haas when the research began in 2005. "We received all this... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2024
News

The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

purchasing other relevant products, from movies and books to clothes and food. Global spending on big data and business analytics is expected to increase 12 percent to $189 billion this year, and rise... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

eliminating the risk of placing one big bet on a single location or food concept. The model can scale up simply by adding more kitchens, and offerings can be tweaked rapidly in response to data-driven insights. For its part, Foodology... View Details

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

attempts to avoid bed shortages by sharing capacity have generally failed, in part, because of the persistence of an independent hospital culture. As COVID-19 surged in 2020, capacity varied widely even among hospitals in the same city, according to View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

effects from someone else’s disruption, threats to future plans. It’s important that people feel that there is something positive they can do to be useful and regain some control over routines and skills. Renewing and reinforcing good workplace practices can make a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Industry Information - Alumni

Careers Industry Information Careers Industry Information Want to know the latest in your respective industry? Are you researching before a big interview? We've compiled resources to help you stay current. + – Banking ABA Banking Journal... View Details

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

A&M Vice Chairman Steve Berman, Live Nation's global touring CEO Arthur Fogel, William Morris Endeavor agent Marc Geiger, and producer Vincent Herbert. Go Big or Go Home? In the autumn of 2009, Lady Gaga was set to go on the road with... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

melting ice cube and assets in bankruptcy that are losing value really quickly." Because the data includes judges’ names on individual filings, Antill was able to determine how specific jurists ruled. He focused on companies that sought... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-115 Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

Deshpandé says. “But if you look at whether it’s done anything to affect the sales of the product category, the answer is no. This is a big market by any standards, and it’s growing exponentially.” After all, the country’s preference for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

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