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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
of training over 50,000 farmers; the final number was just under 67,000." For some organizations, performance measurement would begin and end with that data point alone. But the MCC takes a much longer view. "Training farmers is an... View Details
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
philanthropy because even global companies tend to focus corporate giving on local nonprofits. Charitable behavior is a key area of interest for Marquis, whose research and teaching focuses on businesses' social strategies and activities. Using View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
disentangling the underlying factors that impact the success of venture-capital-backed start-ups. The data that lies at the heart of our performance persistence papers was gathered from multiple sources over a three- or four-year period.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
& Johnson and SmithKline made a strong showing in their data set, young firms led by biotech executives who came from one particular organization—Baxter-Travenol—stood head and shoulders above the rest in terms of getting a successful... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
and data on future debt sent to collections. In the first experiment, researchers compared more than 14,000 randomly selected patients for whom RIP Medical Debt relieved a total of about $19 million in debt with a control group of more... View Details
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
such success stories as Akamai Technologies, which enabled the rapid movement of data over the Internet, and deCODE Genetics, a global leader in analyzing the human genome based in Iceland. Early on, Polaris decided to invest in the... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
totally against changing my major, so when I got back to school, I started applying to jobs that accepted engineers for non-engineering roles. I applied to Nielsen for a consumer data analytics role, to engineering internships that would... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
concepts, and analyzed a year’s worth of Zendesk customer service ticket data to determine the ebb and flow of the needs of their customers: the teachers and administrators teaching our youth. Towards the end of the summer, I presented my... View Details
- Web
Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
Quick Research Resources Use Capital IQ to explore key professionals, financial operating metrics, M&A/private placement, and more in the Latin America and Caribbean market. Go to: Markets > Geographies > Latin America and Caribbean Learn more about high-level economic... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize data makes me more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
whether it should be fed to children, and the credibility of European research indicating raw milk has important healing powers. It answers them in nonideological terms by focusing on real-world data and taking issue with wild claims on... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
Performance Indicators (HPIs) they collect. They will try to demonstrate that their buildings are safer than someone else’s space, especially as landlords compete for office tenants. We see this already in posted statistics like positivity rates; in widespread sharing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960s, the period when the key data becomes available; robust in both country fixed-effects and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare, as the composition and structure of teams often changes over time or between projects. In this paper, we use detailed View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
struggling. A new superintendent who is well-known and respected in education reform circles arrived this [past] school year. He asked Sarah and Matt to expand their strategy to assist him in building the success of traditional schools as well as charter schools. The... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to do. But the technology that threatened intrusion is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
perverse effect of perpetuating the problem. Drawing on a case study of a professional service firm, we develop a multilevel theory to explain why organizations are caught in this conundrum. We present data suggesting that the work-family... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
architecture, including business- and technology-related aspects. We apply our methodology to data gathered in a large pharmaceutical firm. We show that this methodology helps to identify layers in the firm's architecture associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
Erik Peterson at Biometra (B) John J. Gabarro, Thomas J. DeLong, and Jevan SooHarvard Business School Supplement 411-032 This one-paragraph case adds to the data presented in the (A) case. A redisguised and updated version of earlier case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are courted and supply chains are managed via websites, social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne