Exploratory Data Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

Summing Up: Will Access To Big Data Further Enable Fact-based Decision Making Or Analysis Paralysis? "To T. S. Eliot's prescient words 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge... View Details

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01 Sep 2015
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Data-Driven Diligence

that sold them on Casper—it was the numbers. The company had tested well in a revolutionary predictive model built by the venture firm. The idea to vet possible investments in such a way hit Coats about a decade ago: Maybe, he figured, he could use View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Mar 2016
News

HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

Data’s Double Duty: Research and the Real World As Raffaella Sadun was wrapping up her Corporate Strategy course last fall, one of her students sent her a four-page analysis of the private equity industry in India, a topic the class had... View Details

February 2021
Article

Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools

By: Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv

We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external validity of experiments... View Details

Keywords: Lab Selection; External Validity; Experiments; Behavior; Surveys; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis

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24 Jun 2019
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Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand

mining and exploratory analysis, and familiarized herself with the ins and outs of various machine learning models. Ho took this newly acquired data and analytics knowledge with her to HBS, and,... View Details

Keywords: Technology

24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Data-Driven and in Demand

mining and exploratory analysis, and familiarized herself with the ins and outs of various machine learning models. Ho took this newly acquired data and analytics knowledge with her to HBS, and,... View Details

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Consumer goods: market research

Where do I find market reports on consumer goods? Passport
Offers quantitative data on consumer lifestyles, retailing, consumer markets, and in-depth market analysis reports for many countries. Mintel... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

executives—including those who already possess an MBA or advanced business degree—a foundational understanding of quantitative analysis and data science. “Data and data... View Details

February 2018
Supplement

People Analytics at Teach For America (B)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Julia Kelley

This is a supplement to the People Analytics at Teach For America (A) case. In this supplement, Managing Director Michael Metzger must decide how to extend his team’s predictive analytics work using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Forecasting and Prediction; Recruitment; Analysis

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18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

of Debt Forgiveness: Strategic Default Contagion and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to examine whether lenders face adverse consequences when they grant debt... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Mintel Reports | Baker Library

Mintel Reports U.S. consumer market studies and primary and secondary data analysis for topics including food, beverage, apparel, beauty, retail, and travel. Read More U.S. consumer market studies and... View Details

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Database Best Practices - Research Computing Services

will be large, and they may uncover any unforeseen data problems. Analysis of your data using SQL Implement index key columns to maximize efficiency during joins and sorts. It... View Details

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Patent search: The use of component in Espacenet and Patentscope databases

patent researcher to quickly pinpoint needed information during the process of patent data collection especially when a search result retrieves hundreds of hits. Component Details covered Useful for ... ... View Details

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Economist Intelligence Unit | Baker Library

Economist Intelligence Unit In-depth country and selected industry analysis and data. Read More Includes descriptions of the politics, economy, risk, regulation, and business environment of a country, as well as View Details

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Emerging Market/Frontier Market Fellowship Resources

language. EMIS (Emerging Markets Information System): Business news from a wide range of national and local sources. Additional Resources Doing Business: Data and analysis from the... View Details

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Music & Activism: Market Research Resources

“Gen Z” for a recent report on this demographic). Spotify – Musical Map of the World A great geographical look at top Spotify songs, updated weekly (including Cambridge, MA). Statista
Data and... View Details

30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Consumer demographics

and secondary data and analysis in the US and some European countries. SimplyMap is a mapping tool for the U.S. that incorporates market data from Simmons Experian... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

Sciences (SEAS), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences debuted the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP), an online certificate offering for executives focused on quantitative analysis and data science. A... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Ghana

reports. Strong foreign language news component. Search tips: At the top of the page under Region/Country, deselect all and reselect your GEO country. Then enter industry or company keywords. Can search in multiple languages. Country... View Details

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