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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
Ministry of Education mine its existing data around its students, test scores, and teacher allocations. The organization also did site visits to high schools to assess the programs’ overall success. Paul... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
probability of reaching the top, nor are they paid equally,” the researchers write. An entire nation of data To investigate the gender gap, the research team collected data on virtually every person who... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
other end of the spectrum, researchers can obtain false positives by running statistical tests over and over until they find the result they are looking for, or by excluding data after looking at how doing... View Details
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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services
Ensure that you routinely monitor your interactive and batch jobs , so that you can terminate them if they stall or become idle. Remember that resources 'in use' are not available to anyone else. Please do scaling tests if planning large... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
the latest test results. A third approach—less common—is to create a coordinated "virtual team" around the patient, by sharing lab data, insurance claims data, and pharmacy data in an attempt to... View Details
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Kraft Accelerator
Podcast Podcast Showcasing the business models, technologies, and proof points of data & analytics leaders in precision medicine. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts More Ways to Listen Google Play Stitcher Spotify 25 Sep 2019 Under the Datascope... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
sales will be your customers’ values, emotions, and cultural issues. I recommend you bring in 30-50 potential customers and test the sales proposition with them. Run those tests with an eye for emotion,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
and a number of other areas, the ISC seeks to develop new theory, assemble bodies of data to test and apply theory, and share its ideas broadly with business, government, academia, and nongovernmental... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
fixed-pie perceptions by suggesting that disputants may prefer proposals that are perceived to be equally attractive to both parties (i.e., balanced) rather than one-sided, because balanced agreements are seen as more likely to be successfully implemented. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
accessing Yelp data and running experiments, with the goal of producing managerially relevant academic research with the freedom to publish it. Example of a Yelp ad for a restaurant Restaurants were given free advertising space on Yelp... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19
previous recessions with our current students. Offered a full-time data science course over the summer for students to invest in themselves. The course culminated with students putting their skills to the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
inequalities in public and private spheres are affected by childhood exposure to non-traditional gender role models at home. We test the association between being raised by an employed mother and adult men’s and women’s outcomes at work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
(GFS), designed for Google web searches. One team, called Big Table, argued for adding systems on top of GFS; the other team, called Build from Scratch, wanted to replace GFS entirely. Coughran decided to give the two teams space to defend their ideas, letting them... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
in County Business Patterns (CBP). An algorithm using contemporaneous and lagged Yelp data can explain 29.2% of the residual variance after accounting for lagged CBP data, in a testing sample not used to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
advanced capabilities, such as detection and response tools, in areas with the most sensitive data or the most risk to the organization’s mission. Once you’ve identified risk and placed controls in line with your prioritized assets, then... View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
variable using dispersion among experts' forecasts. We test this methodology using three datasets, demand data at item level, sales data at firm level for retailers, and sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Your Keyboard Is Listening
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash For his latest venture, serial entrepreneur Jan Samzelius (MBA 1979) set out to eliminate one of the biggest annoyances of the digital era: hard-to-remember passwords. But along the way, the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
For one thing, Black hosts were underrepresented in the data that was used to train the algorithm. What’s more, says Zhang, societal bias may result in different demand curves for Black-owned properties versus white-owned ones. Renters... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
medication, to reflect the availability and efficacy of a test to guide patient dosing. Are there other countries that are making more progress on this than we are? Several single-payer systems have been more aggressive in personalizing... View Details