Data and Data Sets - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Dec 2014
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Revolutionizing digital medical records

A two-time entrepreneur at 79 years old, Merle Bushkin (MBA 1960) created MedKaz, a unique system that encapsulates a lifetime of medical data on a keychain device. It gives patients control over their complete medical record from all... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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India is more Transparent

First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate disclosure. Real-time stock market... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

and neglected risks; the size and structure of the financial sector; and governance, incen tives, and culture. A database of financial stability... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom

the space agency in applying open innovation approaches to big data and computational challenges, and works with Harvard Catalyst, the University-wide initiative led by Harvard... View Details

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Mar 2015
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Research Brief: Political Capital

Chung and doctoral student Lingling Zhang compare the efficacy of the two most common forms of campaigning: flooding the airwaves with advertising and building an elaborate get-out-the-vote ground operation.... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

10 Oct 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit

percent. Give low- and middle-income customers access to low-interest-rate loans by using a predictive algorithm that uses nontraditional data to measures creditworthiness. “There’s a spectrum of behavior,”... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up

the job seekers wanted advice, but just as importantly, they needed reassurance. Cenedella talked about the data that TheLadders compiles on job searching and came to a cautiously optimistic conclusion. It... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Jun 2023
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Research Brief: The Best Medicine

clinical trials,” Schwartzstein explains. That in turn could lead to lower levels of representation in clinical trials and less data on Black patients. Actually increasing representation in trial populations... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

their workplace “unit” similar to military life. “A driving motivation among the frontline workers was not letting down the people around them,” she explains. “Leading in a civilian setting is not unlike in the military: if you do your... View Details

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 Feb 2022
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A Big Bet

certificate courses in IT support, data analytics, project management, and user experience design. In addition to hard skills, the training partners will provide support and... View Details

Keywords: jobs training; social enterprise; upskilling; Technical and Trade Schools; Technical and Trade Schools

01 Oct 2001
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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... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

07 Oct 2014
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Network Effect

backed if he had chosen the software industry as a career.” Tanzi explained that, owing to recent advances in gene sequencing and data mining, he believed he could identify many more genes in a short time... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

01 Dec 2014
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Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future

both the shopper and the retailer. For example, a glance at a garment could be augmented with information on the designer, recommendations for matching accessories in the store, or suggestions from the wearer’s own closet. A salesperson... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; technology

04 Dec 2020
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Hour by Hour

for hourly workers, Morris realized: Companies lost money on training, and employees often started right back at minimum wage with each new job as they worked to learn an entirely new set of skills. This... View Details

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

10 Jan 2017
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Street Smarts

Its technology can also alert colleagues that you’re running late for a meeting, steer you to gas stations with the best prices, and find and pre-pay for a convenient parking spot—all while you’re on the go.... View Details

25 Aug 2021
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

challenge. In 2012, she launched the Intrinsic Schools, a network of public charter schools with an innovative approach to the middle school and high school experience. Rather than employ the data from... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books

offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2014
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Rethinking the Fashion Beat

The Business of Fashion's philosophy, says Amed, is transparency and inclusion. (Courtesy Imran Amed) It was more happy accident than business plan: Imran Amed (MBA 2002), a former McKinsey consultant, was between jobs in 2007 when he... View Details

Keywords: Alyssa Giacobbe; fashion; Retail Trade

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