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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
assets; they aren't hamstrung by substantial resource allocation decisions, giving them remarkable flexibility. Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces. Market research companies and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transfor ation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of U.S. innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual U.S. patent records to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
market is heavily subsidized by the organizations employing the executives that participate in them. To understand the ongoing transformation of the industry, we use a large database of interviews with participants in executive... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
often leading to new patents and companies—and at the same time producing a rich dataset for research. Comparing the list of winners for 100 years with databases of patent data from the British Patent Office, the results were... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
the woman’s data and cross-checked it against the genetic databases of the research institutions. After 10 minutes, Watson noticed that the woman had not one but roughly 1,000 gene mutations. Many of these, however, seemed to carry... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
and support it by three bullet points by early morning on class day. Initially, students submitted their responses via a text-based VAX system. Bhide, along with Professor Howard H. Stevenson, who also taught the class, then upgraded the material to a View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
SSRN Download Counts? Authors: Benjamin Edelman and Ian Larkin Abstract We use a unique database of every SSRN paper download over the course of seven years, along with detailed resume data on a random sample of SSRN authors, to examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
help us work together when we can,” she adds, citing the development of a regional database that will open up the exchange of information across area providers and payers. Like many organizations, Roswell Park had a focus on optimizing... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
in cancer; building an RNAi Consortium to better understand the role of every gene in the human body; creating an integrated database that mapped the connections among drugs, genes, and diseases; and cataloging inherited genetic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Departments | Employment
The climate is one of experimentation, change and constant learning. HBS IT is comprised of several areas, including: Administrative Technology, which includes: Application Development Database Services Quality Engineering Educational... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
earlier, Freed-Finnegan and Wall had founded Index after observing the technological advantages that Amazon and other online retailers had over brick-and-mortar retailers. Index’s first product was a customer database tool that allowed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
unique dataset of Chinese and Indian herbal patents filed on the USPTO and EPO between 1977 and 2010 and exploit a natural experiment where the USPTO and EPO adopted a codified database of traditional herbal prior art at different points... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
behavior of U.S. politicians. We exploit a unique database linking politicians to other politicians, and linking politicians to firms, and find both channels to be influential. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians, as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found that just 1 percent were Black;... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
part of your goal was to be able to mix and match some of the databases of items for sale, which you could do on a hosted version but couldn't do if they were off in disparate places. Randall: Right. For instance, right now we run... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
Transitions for STEM Workers Authors:Pekkala Kerr, Sari, and William R. Kerr Publication:American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Abstract We analyze the career trajectories of STEM workers and firm-level hiring of immigrants using the Longitudinal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Adoption at the United States and European Patent Offices By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—We exploit a natural experiment to study how codifying information about prior innovation affects subsequent innovation. A codified View Details