Open Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking research with micro-data from these labor platforms. We undertake new empirical analyses of Upwork data regarding 1) the alignment of micro- and macro-level approaches... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

How politics cuts across business Written with Margarita Tsoutsoura, an associate professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis, the analysis draws from data such as executive surveys, voter registration lists, campaign... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

15 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

and hazards. Several techniques can enhance the power and efficacy of queries: Favor follow-up questions, know when to keep questions open ended, get the sequence right, use the right tone, and pay attention to group dynamics. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Mar 2016
Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

given me a tightly knit group of friends that is passionate about these issues, and is committed to sharing, exploring, and innovating together. With the bar set high in my first year, I chose to enter the MBA with as open a mind as I... View Details

05 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

us achieve our goals. This year's theme 'Tackling Climate Together' is a nod to COP27 but also to our hopes for open collaboration and communication amid a further polarizing world.” The opening keynote... View Details

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

managers observed frontline staff work with particular attention to patient safety issues and facilitated open discussion meetings with employees about their safety-related concerns. Data Collection:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles

which technology is moving– from data and quantum computing to the metaverse and blockchain. How do we, as a school and as business leaders, lean into these trends? What are the opportunities?" The desire to produce thought leadership at... View Details

22 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 22

and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as well as architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data from 13 business units and 22 innovations, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

terms. The technical problem is that any two applications are virtually guaranteed to contain dissimilar data and execute dissimilar business processes. One might store dates as DD/MM/YYYY and put the date first in the purchase orders it... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

Web

Software Environments via Conda - Research Computing Services

conda documentation . Accessing Conda on the HBSGrid You can load the conda package manager using the software modules system . Open a terminal on the HBSGrid and run module load anaconda You will need to do this after every login before... View Details

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

lending is not yet complete, but we can already see its promise. As technology opened the doors to vast troves of data, opportunities emerged to create new insights on a small businesses health and prospects. These inputs have the... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

16 Jan 2020
News

Hitting the High Notes

Angeles Philharmonic and two short films by Emmy-winning Los Angeles filmmaker Ty Kim (MBA 2000). The program took place at the Colburn School, a performing arts school in downtown Los Angeles. “We opened with my film about Ben Hong, who... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

influence a team's knowledge-integration capability. We test our theoretical framework using data on knowledge workers in professional services and discuss implications for research and practice. Manage the Culture Cycle Author:James L.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

outlines concrete steps that managers at all levels can take to spark positive conflict and make sure that all views get a fair hearing, and he outlines as well a fair and open process for making more effective decisions. "Keeping... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2017
News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

in manufacturing,” says Eckert. A 2015 report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute found that 2 million of the nearly 3.5 million anticipated open manufacturing jobs in the United States in the next decade will go unfilled. Europe... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

Torras (MBA '50) established Preco Corp., a pulp and paper operation, creating more than one thousand jobs. In consumer services, David S. Paresky (MBA '65) opened Crimson Travel Service in Harvard Square a few months after graduation and... View Details

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

advertising be effective? If friends influence the purchases of a user in a social network, it could potentially be a significant source of revenue for the sites and their corporate sponsors. Using a unique data set from Cyworld, this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

maximizing regional opportunities. Ghemawat discusses five regional strategies while leaving the meaning of a "region" open for interpretation. This excerpt describes the challenges of designating a meaningful definition of... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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