Flow Of Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge

challenges that small- and medium-sized businesses expect tariffs to bring—and how they will react. More than half of small- and midsized- business owners in the US expect tariffs enacted by the Trump Administration to increase their... View Details

23 Nov 2020
Blog Post

We Rise

monopoly on the ability to set that direction. No one gender or one race should control the flow of capital.” Solution #1: Make the Business Case “Women entrepreneurs are an untapped market.” That’s the... View Details

21 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design

largest pump manufacturer in the world, headquartered in Bjerringbro, Denmark. Grundfos shared the same ecosystem of energy, material, and waste flows with other companies we visited. For example, Grundfos... View Details

03 Mar 2020
News

Can This Man Change the American Diet?

kitchen, how it’s designed and how it flows is to help us achieve those really high throughputs. And some of the customer engagement you were talking about is really designed to help people understand and... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

also apparent that a dollar of earnings generated through business expansion may be an annuity, and perhaps even a growing one, while a dollar gained from cost savings is a one-time improvement, an incremental cash View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

Rachel Sanders (MBA 2017) started her professional career working in healthcare focused investment banking. After spending four years working at Raymond James focused on middle market transactions, M&A, and the intersection of... View Details

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

information and instead message to shareholders and analysts something of opposite sign. The data suggest they may be motivated in part by subsequent personal stock-trading opportunities. Publisher's link:... View Details

17 Nov 2016
News

Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus

average Rent the Runway customer is 29 years old—more than two decades younger than the average Neiman Marcus shopper, who is 51, the companies say. Neiman Marcus executives are also looking forward to collecting shopping data to study... View Details

01 Apr 1998
News

Emerging Information

IT WAS A CRITICAL demonstration that, if all went well, would likely land a big-time client for Gary Mueller, president and CEO of Internet Securities (www.securities.com), an online service designed to provide news and View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

by Alex Sherman and Mike Sherman (MBA 1986) Amazon Digital Services LLC This book provides 52 real-life anecdotes that illustrate important learnings about customer analytics. It draws from the worlds of big View Details

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

flow to reforming countries as a consequence of reforms and may give policy makers working at agencies like the U.S. Trade Representative's Office some helpful facts to bring to the negotiating table.... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Hospitals: statistics (US)

Where can I find statistics of US hospitals? You may begin with: American Hospital Association Survey Databases ( see also View Details

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HBS - From The Dean

management. Our research agenda must reflect the shifts that are occurring in the world of business, such as digitization and data science. But this must not come at the expense View Details

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Incubators

How can I find incubators or accelerators? Seed-DB: A database of accelerators and their companies. Much of the data comes from CrunchBase. International Business... View Details

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Alphas

How do I find current and historical alphas? For historical alpha see, O'Neil Database Ref. HG4916 .O45 in the Stamps Reading Room. Historical quarterly data on alphas. Baker has the last quarter annually from 1983 to 2011. To... View Details

Student-Profile

Fanele Mashwama

resources at HBS, one has a great deal of ownership over their doctoral experience here and as such I knew this was the right place for me.” For instance, he adds, “To access sensitive administrative data in... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh

"consumers now understand that business needs their personal data and will pay for it. We see ClickRebates as the leader in this emerging field of consumer-to-business e-commerce; we've even trademarked a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

then used their findings to make some concrete changes. One key finding: Usage of the public toilet was heavily skewed with respect to gender. PSA: We've been collecting gender segregated data in all the... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

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