Data and Data Sets - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers

attention to mental health, it was data that shaped the Goodness Web itself: One in five adults in the United States suffers from a mental health illness each year, and 46 percent will have a mental health... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2004
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Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits

launched two years ago. The original intent of the research project was to begin to collect data that would contribute to a “canon of business leadership” — a compendium of business leaders who have defined the way we live, work, View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

HBX CORe, a three-course online program that teaches the fundamentals of business, he knew his children would benefit from the content and the high quality of instruction that had set the foundation for his... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies

those efforts both now and for the future.” Over the years, Rock, considered a founding father of the venture capital industry, helped form numerous start–ups that went on to become 20th–century success stories, including Intel, Teledyne,... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2019
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From Das’s Desk

bring data and analytics technologies to precision medicine today. And this is just a partial list. There’s a new HBS podcast coming soon that will focus on business challenges... View Details

Keywords: podcasts; lifelong learning; alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

17 Dec 2018
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Tomorrow, Transformed

tomorrow. COMPETENCIES AND CREDENTIALS: Creating jobs and maintaining a company’s competitiveness LIGHTING THE WAY: How Beverly Anderson is forging a foundation for black alumnae AVERTING CRISIS: Could View Details

Keywords: HBS Bulletin staff; illustration by Martín Léon Barretto

01 Mar 2015
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Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders

employees of diverse skill sets to adopt English as their business language. For the past four years, with extensive support from the School’s research centers in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, she has... View Details

19 Aug 2016
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Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets

lenders a better understanding of both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. Based on psychometrics research conducted at the Harvard Center for International Development, the questions on this test seek not to mimic the... View Details

03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground

analytics-focused consulting firm made sense at a time when technology breakthroughs were fueling exponential growth in data generation and consumption. His three former employers—Answerthink, Bain, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

R&D," explains Yeo. "A short time later, I set up the EDB's Singapore Bio Innovation Fund to invest longterm in overseas start-ups to learn as much as possible about the nascent biotech industry. And on June... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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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 View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research

have lots of data about farmers’ soil type, crop preferences, willingness to take risk, and access to finance. Then we give them advice that’s directly related to their particular circumstances,” Cole says.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture

02 Jun 2019
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A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

and economics who draw on data to inform managerial and policy decisions, they decided to see if they could use their skills to examine gun violence in America. Today, nearly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

10 Aug 2015
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Seeding a Better Future for Colombia

destination, the pavilion was also the setting for the announcement, in June, of a British Embassy–sponsored satellite project that will enhance data images of crop conditions in remote areas of Colombia,... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

diaphragm up and down, leading to blurry imaging, but now machines can understand that pattern of breathing and collect the data accordingly to avoid blurring. This results in... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2006
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CEO Compensation Troubles

available for shareholders. And ignoring shareholder concerns will continue to exacerbate the problem. The SEC’s new attention to greater disclosure, while producing more information for shareholders, is unlikely to resolve these... View Details

Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course

education data company BrightBytes found that an estimated 30 percent of ed tech licenses that schools purchased were never used in the classroom, and nearly 98 percent weren’t used “intensely”—that is,... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

complicated life so much better.” Will the health care sector embrace artificial intelligence? I think it could be a powerful tool for routinizing the practice of medicine. Artificial intelligence digs through mounds and mounds of View Details