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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

(including a number of full-page images) of steel production and research efforts. In subsequent annual reports from the early to mid 1940s, images of steel production placed alongside financial statistics underscored to stockholders the... View Details

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

advertisers. They were especially likely to spend in areas where trials are decided by juries, rather than bench trials (i.e., decided by judges), where advertising increases were statistically zero. “You are not buying billboards to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

“overfitting” a statistical model, ensuring the model hits every historical data point and thus making it overly specific and lacking room for future variables. Another problem can develop with miscalibration, failing to consider whether... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

behave more peacefully in the barnyard, leading to a higher yield of eggs and meat for the farm. The ability of the case authors to recognize this device as a solution to a production problem was extremely clever, and the statistical... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

statistics about how strategy formulation is so often disconnected from strategy execution. What is an office of strategy management, and when and why is it needed? What are its typical activities? How it is distinct from a strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

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

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

penalty,” says Gallani, “but who was expecting to.” Ultimately, such tournament-style motivation schemes may be a zero-sum game, Gallani and Cai found, with the increased productivity of the winners and decreased productivity of the losers canceling each other out to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

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 2021 American Statistical... View Details

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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

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

07 Jul 2003
What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

had risen to the highest rate in nine years. Economists assure us that productivity (the ratio of product and service outputs to labor and capital inputs) improvements are good for all of us, whether we are employed (and thus factored into the statistic) or not (which... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

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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 self-paced training. For additional assistance, please see our help page. View Details

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

help with the data analysis. Thus began the long saga of extracting statistics on inspections and sorting out which were randomly assigned, which followed accidents, and which followed complaints. In addition, Toffel and Levine... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

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

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

08 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

apply, firms can now hop on a platform and pick out talent they think would be an especially good fit for their needs. When Koning and his colleagues set out to learn how many workers were being recruited versus applying for jobs directly, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

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