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17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

perceived by workers. Rouen set out to explore the factors at play. He obtained data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for 931 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2006 and 2013, including total employee compensation and the composition... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2020
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Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt

The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Advertising; Spending; Media

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

23, 2013 UNESCO, “Progress of Literacy in Various Countries, a Preliminary Statistical Study of Available Census Data since 1900,” (1953), accessed April 22, 2013 UNESCO “World Illiteracy at Mid-Century,” (1957), accessed April 21, 2013... View Details

30 May 2024
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Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

registered nurses. The statistical evidence suggests that medical teams tended to prioritize messages from white patients, says Ariel Stern, a visiting professor at Harvard Business School and one of the study’s authors. As mobile... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

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Finding Talent Opportunities

with breakthroughs in generative AI, quantum computing, cloud computing, and robotics redefining the future. Employment Data We provide statistics about current and past graduating classes, on internships and careers. Explore general and... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment , Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). With Sadun, Raffaella, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson, and Shruthi Venkatesh. Come... View Details

23 May 2013
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Board Games: Timing of Independent Directors’ Dissent in China

Keywords: by Juan Ma & Tarun Khanna

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Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details

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Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

including correspondence, interviews, research reports, and statistical analyses. Fritz Roethlisberger Papers Online finding aid The papers of Fritz Jules Roethlisberger cover his activities as researcher and professor of Industrial... View Details

07 Feb 2023
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Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

2019, holding down jobs with management titles but making less than $50,000 a year, Cohen reports, citing Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Based on the assumption that about a third of these roles weren’t management positions, the study... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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RCS staff include experts in advanced statistical methods, along with data science methodologies that can support faculty research, including text digitization, fuzzy matching, and natural language processing. RCS team member bios provide... View Details

22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup

industry, in this field that requires this kind of detailed explanation, is it inherent to the complexity of the organizations? Why is it, what is it about startup life? I think the fundamental issue there is that there's just a very high degree of risk. Startups fail.... View Details

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

products in the same session were considered statistically significant and quantifiable,” Datar says. “By setting the bar that high, you remain humble about what you can learn from both successful and unsuccessful transactions.” Managers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

Syllabus 3 Courses (with Exam), 10–17 Weeks Download full syllabus 40 hrs Course – 5 Modules Business Analytics Beginning with basic descriptive statistics and progressing to regression analysis, you’ll implement analytical techniques in... View Details

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Professional Development - Alumni

Help Salary Data & Statistics Access alumni compensation data to help inform your next move. Learn More Past Program Resources The Challenge of Negotiating Inside Your Company Michael Wheeler Retired Professor of Management Practice Our... View Details

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

communicate reality. Timothy Mitchell, for example, explores how the parameters of economic expertise shape the questions the discipline investigates, while others have scrutinized how data and statistics come to represent the... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities. Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

its upper ranks. Having amassed a dataset of estimated social status and managerial levels for the large pool of GE managers, Nicholas then ran his data through various statistical models. He found that the likelihood of a death for upper... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

When all of the transactions were considered together, employment fell 1.4 percent—a statistically insignificant amount. Since this total includes jobs added when other firms are acquired by the bought-out firms, the researchers isolated... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

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