Statistics - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)

compared to any racial or ethnic demographic in the United States. 4. Latinos currently represent $1 trillion of spending while their market share continues to grow. I hope to use my education here to help change these statistics in my... View Details

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

Resources ), as well as here at HBS. Students can make use of virtually any methodology required to pursue their research interests, including field studies, large-scale statistical analysis, consumer panel research, behavioral... 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

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

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

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

hybrid teaching and learning. Ayelet Israeli : Received the 2020–2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award. Isamar Troncoso : Selected as an AMA-Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium Faculty Fellow by the American Marketing Association in 2021. Isamar Troncoso : Finalist in the... View Details

Research Summary

Models of optimal experience (flow)

Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details

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

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

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

of tests to make its own estimations. The computer had no way of parsing the language in the jokes, nor did it follow a model indicating what features made a joke funny. Instead, it relied on “collaborative filtering” algorithms to learn which sample jokes were View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

film, Moneyball, at least in part a glorification of the triumph of statistics and probabilities over intuition and managerial judgment in professional baseball? Two recent books add to the genre of advice on decision-making. One advises... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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

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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

01 Jun 2024
News

Leveraging Generative AI

Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

script with the bsub , make , make install sequence, otherwise just follow the instructions provided with the software you are installing. As an illustration, we can build the development version of the R environment for statistical... View Details

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

statistical anomaly but also as a source of hope and encouragement for others pursuing similar goals. This experience is both a burden and an inspiration, a struggle and a calling. Brandon Corts, Class of 2023 It's embarrassing admitting... View Details

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

forecasting, strategic planning, and statistical decision making have not prepared them for this amount of flux in the environment. In short, these rapid-fire changes are putting extreme pressure on business leaders to lead in ways not... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

Reinventing State Capitalism

In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

sales productivity is not only about profit maximization and shareholder value—which, by the way, I don't think a CEO or Harvard Business School needs to apologize for—it also affects growth, civic discourse, and the lives of millions of people. Bureau of Labor View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

into a forest of complexity where nearly anyone can become lost. Statistics can be powerful weapons, used not to clarify but to bewilder. "You are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Just look at this [twenty-two-page]... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

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