Data Scientists - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

your corporate processes.” Questions she might ask of a company during the “dig” process include: What is the company’s pay scale by race, gender, and level? Would it share that data with everyone in the firm? Would it provide employees... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

30 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

messages. That’s part of the reason the authors say there may be other factors besides direct racial bias driving the results—and a key reason that they are keen to explore this data in future research. One potential factor they... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

for that occupation as a whole. If 30 percent of data scientists are women, then a recruiter searching for data scientists would see 30 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

10 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

data scientist at Amazon; and Nils Wernerfelt, an economist at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Luca and his coauthors analyzed more than 800 public health... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

of business development. Choices made early on can dramatically affect the options available later. A firm that permits a scientist to present a paper describing an invention to an international audience before filing a patent application... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

types developed by various social scientists during the past two centuries. One of the prime foci of social history, for example, was the history of labor. The history of capitalism picks up that interest but moves beyond wage labor in an... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

lot of people are feeling apprehension,” says Yu, who’s now a scientist at Humu, a Palo Alto company that develops productivity tools for workplaces. “Maybe they want to go back to work but there's a lot of social anxiety because they're... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

effect that job-hopping had on salaries, Healy and colleagues studied data based on 2,000 senior-level job switches from executive placement firms, LinkedIn career information, and interviewing search professionals. Overall, the research... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

unfortunately, there are some cases where it stimulated the immune system and not only it didn't confer protection, but actually helped the virus invade the cell because it was incomplete in terms of its immunogenic properties. We have to be very careful. Let me just... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

International Trade Finance Practices Authors: Pol Antras and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction-level View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

disciplines, where academic research is leading to the development of a second skin that could improve drug delivery or alerting farmers and scientists on how to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural farming. Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

strong foundation of facts and a very comprehensive search for the facts. At the same time, he was an incredibly systematic thinker and researcher, a social scientist in the truest sense of the word. If you looked at his desk at 1010... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

vital for the structure of e-commerce and that’s the broader issue" Q: Is there a distinction to be made here between Apple protecting its own commercial interests and protecting customer security more broadly? A: Apple is making two distinctions. The first is if... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

says Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration. “They can’t rely on data scientists alone.” Experiments have come to have an outsize influence within tech companies from... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

in a way that they never were. Twenty years ago, said Lander, information was a trivial component of biomedical research. Most of what a scientist did was based on work taking place in his or her own lab or in a few other labs. Now, of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

assistant professor at Harvard Business School; Patrick Rooney, an HBS research associate; and Jonathan Smith, a policy research scientist at The College Board. “The effects we see for widely covered scandals are large, which speaks to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

developing on,” Wu says. Benefitting from complex contagion Hackathons permit what social scientists call complex contagion, in which exposure to a phenomenon from multiple sources helps speed adoption. Past research that looked at this... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

Now that scientists have mapped the human gene, can drug makers map a road to unlimited riches? For John Lechleiter, Executive Vice President of Eli Lilly and Company's Pharmaceutical Products and Corporate Development, there remain more... View Details