Filter Results:
(1,105)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,105)
- People (1)
- News (177)
- Research (621)
- Events (18)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (376)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,105)
- People (1)
- News (177)
- Research (621)
- Events (18)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (376)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
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
- 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
- Web
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
- Web
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
- 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
- Web
Why HBS? - Doctoral
research interests, including field studies, large-scale statistical analysis, consumer panel research, behavioral experiments and theoretical and empirical modelling. Support is available for methodological and 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
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
working paper, Ascarza and coauthor Nicolas Padilla, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Business School, show that a statistical tool known as a deep exponential family model can effectively sort the most relevant variables and account for... View Details
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
the sale right away and improve the chance of attaining club membership. In the paper, Larkin uses actual choices of hundreds of salespeople facing this decision to statistically estimate the average salesperson's "willingness to pay" for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
"transactional" leaders. Level One: Sociopath At the base of the model is the person who literally serves no one: the Sociopath. The Sociopath, afflicted with what the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- Fast Answer
Compensation by Industry/Position/Location
position. A somewhat unique feature of Glassdoor.com is that it provides details of salary, bonuses, and other compensation for actual positions and titles at specific companies. HBS MBA Recruiting - Data and Statistics This... View Details
- 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
- 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
- Web
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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
Center for Integrative Leadership and HBS—with input from the 50 YALP alumni in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Included in Minnesota’s particular challenges are educational attainment statistics for students of color, notes the center’s... View Details