statistics - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

indicate a range of expenses, typically measured by the cost of the support department as a percentage of total revenue or the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees per billion dollars of revenue. Hackett presents summary View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

First, the researchers looked at the words that CEOs chose, using statistical inference to eventually generate 100 topics as diverse as marketing, corporate boards, and personal family history. Each CEO was scored based on their tendency... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Industry Information - Alumni

care, justice, the environment, international affairs, and national security; non-partisan, global scope. Data.gov Portal for US-focused data and statistics from hundreds of organizations including federal agencies. World Bank DataBank... View Details

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Capital IQ: Introduction, Help, Etc.

events, transactions, and affiliations. Capital IQ Search Examples Screen for private equity or venture capital firms investing in a particular industry, stage of investment, and/or geography Locate information and statistics on secondary... 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

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Consortium Faculty Fellow by the American Marketing Association in 2021. Isamar Troncoso : Finalist in the 2021 American Statistical Association Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition (Marketing Section). Shunyuan Zhang :... View Details

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RCS Cheat Sheet - Research Computing Services

Help RCS Cheat Sheet 3ms Check out the links below to quickly get started with our statistical/data services, high-throughput compute cluster, research software, and training. For additional assistance, please see our help page. View Details

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

the monetary incentives increased it by 13 percent. Combining the two interventions boosted the total by a small but statistically insignificant amount over the structured meetings alone. After the study period ended, however, something... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Feb 2015
HBS Seminar

Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

recovering—declined even more at 24 percent. Inside the studies Researchers accessed detailed injury data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for almost 2.2 million establishments from 1995 to 2016. They also struck data sharing... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

statistical trading system; he handled administration and sales. Hedging was an important feature of the fund, since trading in commodities requires frequent short selling of commodities contracts. Registering the fund with the Securities... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award at the 2022 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science for "Ensemble IV: Creating Instrumental Variables from Ensemble Learners for Robust Statistical Inference” with Gordon Burtch, Mochen Yang, and Gediminas Adomavicius. Seth Neel : Winner... View Details

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

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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

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

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

Portrait Project

Ahmed Farag

can I look at my younger reflection and not desire for them to have ambition? Without my own parents, I would’ve just been another statistic of illiteracy in a third world country. My moral insomnia continues to drag. If I can’t find... View Details

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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