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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services

detect main, moderator, and mediator effects for experiments and quasi-experiments. R WebPower : Collection of tools for conducting both basic and advanced statistical power analysis including correlation, proportion, t-test, one-way... View Details

03 Apr 2017
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The International Experience at HBS

diverse community here. I think there is no harder task on campus than finding out who is an international and who is a “local”. The statistics about the proportion of US passport holders do not say much about how international the... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

specific financial data, flow charts, and statistics to illuminate each case. A portable version of Gilson's course, Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring gives readers the chance to learn the intricacies of this increasingly... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Aug 2002
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Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions

career was with the Air Force, in and out of uniform. His active duty in World War II took him to New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan, and he later served in Korea. A statistics major, in 1960 he published Sampling in a Nutshell, a... View Details

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a director of Wal-Mart Stores.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Set Your Recruiting Vision for 2020

seamless conversations between recruiters and students. Goal: Increase Yield Consider resources available to increase your yield from offer to accept. Benchmark your salary and bonuses against your competitors in the industry with the latest salary View Details

Keywords: All Industries

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

common than ever? —John Lacey (MBA 1981) YOUNG: Bulletproof security is not statistically possible, but we can minimize risk by developing layers of protection and proactive approaches that increase those layers. Adversarial machine... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

01 Mar 2018
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Turning Point: One Step at a Time

met several hundred of my classmates and discovered something unexpected: The proportion that had run marathons or climbed Kilimanjaro was statistically improbable within a random sampling of people. These Herculean feats of endurance... View Details

Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

28 Jul 2014
Blog Post

Mid-summer Update

hinge on the feedback from customers. We needed high quality results and enough of them to make the data statistically significant. Back at the hotel that night, I was finally able to take a first look at the results. Some strong trends... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

technology. The Numerate Leader: How to Pull Game-Changing Insights from Statistical Data By Thomas A. King (MBA 1987) Wiley Using a qualitative approach to introduce statistical reasoning, The Numerate... View Details

29 Jun 2019
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Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa

employment, to create wealth for themselves, and for their communities, and their families. When a woman makes $1, about 90% of their income is spent on health, education and nutrition. And that same statistic for a man is only about 35%.... View Details

15 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 15

Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine! By: Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their investors, lenders, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

deep statistical analysis, just good data and reporting approaches. It is often encountered in online businesses, where customer clickstreams provide plenty of data-often too much-for analysis. One expert practitioner of the CSI story... View Details

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Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

as Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data. In 2018, HBS led the development of the online Harvard Business Analytics Program. This certificate program—taught by business, engineering, and statistics faculty from across the... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

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Managing Global Operations

Statista Quick statistics and analysis on various topics including data on the pandemic and its impact on countries, industries, as well as topics such as HR technologies. Worth notice: each record includes sources used. That is a... View Details

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Brett Laffel

negotiating, and I was an experienced statistics cruncher - but I had very little exposure to subjects like finance and accounting. As one of the youngest students in my class, speaking in front of a class of ninety people was initially... View Details

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Hayling Price

change While Hayling could make "compelling ethical and normative arguments for social and economic justice," he felt driven to go further, to learn how to "make a business case for change." He sees the joint MBA/MPP degree as a way to integrate... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Aspa Lekka

one of the top analysts in digital marketing in Germany, and I got a lot of offers." Meanwhile, Aspa was still competing professionally, and completing a Ph.D. in education, for which her research focused on how to help children learn View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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