Database - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

Silicon Valley or the Napa wine country) that can lead to competitive advantage. Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness has just introduced a new database tool to help corporations and policy makers pinpoint these clusters,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

extent to which corporate and investor behavior is changing to contribute to a more sustainable society, we analyzed the state of integrated reporting in 23 countries. In collaboration with Sustainable Asset Management (SAM), we used its proprietary View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

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RCS Policies - Research Computing Services

upgrades. Reminder emails are sent in advance of the maintenance window, detailing work to be done. Access and compute is not guaranteed during this time, and every effort is made to protect work in progress. MariaDB MariaDB accounts and space are available upon... View Details

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

led cities to digitize more of their own information, putting everything from tax records and public health inspection scores online. “They take a dataset that used to be in an obscure database or on paper, and now it’s available for the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

relations, and by 1976, the project had produced a database on hundreds of companies and a bibliography of 19 books, 28 doctoral dissertations, and 184 articles. While holding the Johnson chair at HBS, Vernon simultaneously held the... View Details

14 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

public service, because it makes this data, most of which exist in archival databases of the EPA, much more readily accessible," says Michael Toffel, an expert on industry self-regulation and an assistant professor in the Technology... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

becomes evident that digital communications will fundamentally reshape the way businesses market, and often deliver, goods and services. The current communications revolution is hardly the first to be encountered by marketers. Prior upheavals occurred with the dawn of... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

02 May 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

the different opportunities and challenges that exist. Connect with Baker Library, talk to faculty, network with alumni. Baker Library can provide you with access to databases that provide industry trends on specific challenges within... View Details

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

sophisticated database software, and the Internet would enable them to actually deliver on the promise of customized offerings to each individual customer. But that hasn't happened to the extent it should have, says Cleveland-based... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

an entire group of lower level functions and staff." Rich Lanza pointed out that "(Section 404) is a necessary step ... (but) more continuous controls monitoring is needed that independently analyze company databases daily for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 May 2021
Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

database of startups and investors, to analyze collaboration patterns. The authors also sorted through press releases, news articles, and regulatory filings to augment and verify the data. Of the Crunchbase startups examined, 16... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

04 Sep 2019
News

Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

with the right antibiotic on the first day they are admitted to the hospital—day zero—rather than being hit with multiple days of toxic broad-spectrum antibiotics. To enable their diagnostic tools, DZD has built one of the world’s largest View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased... View Details

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

example, because the data sources and credit histories that firms draw on in the West don't exist in emerging markets. Market research and advertising are in their infancy in developing countries, and it's difficult to find the deep View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

a computerized database of incompatible patient-donor pairs. In addition to direct exchanges, the paper described exchanges that included three- and four-way matches—as well as a system in which a donor could give a kidney to a stranger... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

operations are not well integrated across media. As a consequence, a frequent shopper may be given first-class treatment in the physical store but receive marginal service on the telephone or via the Internet. Retailers need to tap into the same product, customer, and... View Details

Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

period. Software is penetrating other industries, Kerr notes. Take vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies’ speedy development of mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 required software, he notes. “Their capacity to bring a substantial software, AI View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

it's in a hospital or for the United Way: fatigue. "A campaign's optimal duration for maximum benefits is still unclear. At what point do people shut off?" Next Steps To Improve Safety Practices The team's database offers additional... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

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Prita Kumar

connections here and there in market. It’s just incredible. But they don’t just come naturally. You have to really mine your alumni database and figure out where people are, use LinkedIn and other resources available to you. But the good... View Details

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