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28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

TripAdvisor demonstrates the reach and power of recommendation services for consumers: it has become the world’s largest travel site with 340 million unique monthly visitors and 350 million reviews online covering 6.5 million hotels,... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

24 Apr 2014
News

Optimizing search technology

Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the... View Details

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HBS Course: Starting a Private Investment Firm

private investment lifecycle. Individual accounts are required to access. Strict data download limit. Preqin
Information on PE & VC firms, funds,... View Details

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

colleagues found striking trends as they looked closer at dining patterns. The team analyzed almost six months of data from the foot traffic analytics firm SafeGraph to gauge how many people were leaving their homes, how often they were... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

23 Oct 2019
News

Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

Administration, made educating students “to use data for judgment, and judgment for data” one of the top three priorities guiding the MBA curriculum. “AI is not just displacing human workers—it is changing the nature of firms, how they... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

01 Jun 2017
News

Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

of business and society is changing not only how we work and live, but also how we tackle the toughest issues. Lakhani oversees the Crowd Innovation Lab, a Harvard University initiative focused on crowdsourcing. He conducts field experiments using View Details

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

slides through remote Wyoming. Source: Kevin Dooley Second, citizens are generating what Luca calls “digital exhaust,” data generated online as part of their daily activities, which could be captured by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2023
News

Is AI OK?

use of AI in everything from facial recognition to predictive sentencing. She found it nonetheless. The online rental platform uses its pricing tool to increase host revenues by dynamically adjusting rental prices according to demand.... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

817-095 Yemeksepeti: Growing and Expanding the Business Model Through Data In October 2016, Nevzat Aydin, co-founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti, the Turkish online food-ordering company, was looking over the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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Managing Global Operations

Statista Quick statistics and analysis on various topics including data on the pandemic and its impact on countries, industries, as well as topics such as HR technologies. Worth notice: each record includes sources used. That is a... View Details

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

RapidVisa to expand the types of cases it can handle.) The company’s online immigration applications function much as TurboTax does for IRS filings, translating the arcane language of government documents into easy-to-answer questions... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise

is a good lead for further data tracking. Business and management literature ABI/ProQuest - best for finding articles on all aspect of business and management topics including some company SWOT analysis. Covers industry and... View Details

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary employee View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Five-Star Research

When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million reviews. Today, it has more than 71 million reviews, and the... View Details

Keywords: April White; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

24 Sep 2019
News

Connecting Patients and Providers

businessman, he also saw the medical industry’s lost opportunity. The solution, Jarzabek says, is Trustedoctor’s secure online platform that streamlines communication between inbound patients and doctors. Hospitals that adopt the... View Details

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

taverns,buffets & cafeterias -social media marketing and restaurant apps -brand management Mintel - consumer market studies and primary and secondary data analysis (primarily for European and US countries) for... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2003
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report

reunions, and online products and services. Deborah Farrington (MBA ’76) supervised the programming subcommittee, which recommended that the School offer an MBA “renewal” program to deliver the latest thinking in five critical areas of a... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 13

invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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