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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

Portrait Project

Jeff Barkas

Statistics indicate that my startup is likely to fail. But, if I can help even one family, I know that my grandpa will be looking down and saying, “I’m proud of you, kiddo.” View Details

14 Sep 2018
Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

it wasn’t just that. On a daily basis, I would hear from classmates about their past experience in/plans of going into tough industries to tackle some of the most technically-challenging issues. Truly inspirational conversations. Regarding the class content: 4. View Details

05 May 2020
Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that is more detailed than the US Census data economists typically examine. In addition, they relied on a database called the Billion Prices Project, which Cavallo first developed as a Ph.D. student at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

North. The Industrial Worker: a Statistical Study of Human Relations in a Group of Manual Workers . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938. Secondary Sources Adams, Stephen B. and Orville R. Butler. Manufacturing the Future: a History... View Details

29 Apr 2016
HBS Seminar

Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

can study happiness and read statistics about what percentage of people say they're happy, but that's not what this is about,” Singer shared. “With these amazing video case studies, you can see somebody with your exact problem and start... View Details

Research Summary

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

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

claims to have but really doesn't—any more than the mutual funds had expertise in picking dot-com stocks. The banks argue that they have expertise allowing them to pick the better hedge funds in which to invest. And they provide View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

Fast Answer

Patent search: A comparative table of databases

compound search Basic tool for analyzing search results Quick help and translation tools are very useful IPC statistics (global patent activity reports) Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu for specific search... View Details

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Access real-world employment data from HBS alumni with the Career Trends tool

only display aggregate statistics above a minimum threshold. There are many ways to slice the data. Take a look to see how HBS Career Trends can help you. View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Finance, where he leads the 31-member Parliamentary panel that has oversight of the Ministries of Finance, Corporate Affairs, Statistics & Program Implementation, and the Niti Aayog (the government planning agency). Sinha previously... View Details

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Research Design - Impact Investments

The third focus area of the project will undertake a joint statistical project with the U.S. Census Bureau to better quantify the implications of the growing impact investing market. An outsized majority of impact investing transactions... View Details

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Data Practices - Research Computing Services

Data Practices Data Tips & Toolkits RCS has compiled an array of packages and tools that can help you with your data wrangling, web scraping, and statistical analysis, among others. Below is a selected list of tips and toolkits. Machine... View Details

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

other time-sucking tasks reported greater life satisfaction. In the United States, for example, buying time increased happiness about 0.77 on a 10-point scale, which may not seem like much, but it is statistically significant, Whillans... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

Fortune article. “We knew it was statistically impossible. As a collective, we always kind of wondered: How the hell does he do it? Every person was curious. But that’s where it stopped. You’d stop yourself from wondering. You’d say,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

movement. “Let’s look for evidence,” she says, drawing them back to the document each has in hand. She’s hoping they’ll discover the statistics in Exhibit 4 showing the divide between New York’s rural and urban communities. One student... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

phenomena.” “In a world with online competition, we need to reconsider what makes prices sticky, not just across time but also across locations.” Cavallo focuses on multichannel retailers—those that have an online presence but sell most goods offline—because they are... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

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