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- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
nearly exclusively to the office, indicating the potential for a more temporary condition. Although highly impressionistic, the survey data illuminates the scale at which workers quickly began working from home, causing a potential shift...
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by Kristen Senz
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
company for the past 20-plus years, it gave me the foundation and vocabulary to engage more confidently in the venture capital and startup community. Stephanie Laguna Health Care Strategy & Innovation Leader Read more learner stories * Source: 2022 surveys and course...
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- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods, published in the journal Organization Science, Nagle interviewed technology professionals and examined data from the Linux Foundation on...
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- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to...
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- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local plant managers in almost...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
initial interviews, however, we kept hearing the same concern: "Thank goodness you folks are doing this. All of us collectively need to take a hard look at the state of business education." Srikant Datar: With that prompting, we expanded our efforts. We collected...
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African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM - MBA
and role? I was a Software Developer at Citibank, then a Data Analyst at an education nonprofit. Post-MBA industry and role? Entrepreneurship. I’m starting a GMAT tutoring company aimed at closing the achievement gap. Why did you decide...
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- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
the risks of failure. Adding to this concern is that even as the number of mega audit firms has contracted from eight in the 1980s to four today, their combined market share remains formidable, especially in the United States. The...
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- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
consumption paths and then into a net effect on social welfare. I calibrate that framework using recently produced data on Social Security beneficiaries by lifetime income decile and both existing and new survey evidence on the normative...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food...
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Sean Silverthorne
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change....
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
2004. Brailer’s mission is to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014 and to link those records to a national medical data network. “It’s time to put health information technology center stage,” Brailer told some 300...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
Project (BFFS), conceived at HBS and launched in July 2016, aims to use data to predict—and maybe prevent—future financial crises. A database of financial stability and investor sentiment measures is published in real time on the BFFS...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
digitalization and data science and artificial intelligence are deployed as management and business tools,” Lakhani explains. And that means HBS needs to think differently, too. Enter the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard...
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April White
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
analyst reports, and trademarks. For alumni in the job market, librarians can also provide information ranging from lists of companies sorted by industry and geographic criteria to detailed data on individual companies. Fees for custom...
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- June 2023
- Article
How New Ideas Diffuse in Science
By: Mengjie Cheng, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith and Daniel A. McFarland
What conditions help new ideas spread? Can knowledge entrepreneurs’ position and develop new ideas in ways that help them take off? Most innovation research focuses on products and their reference. That focus ignores the ideas themselves and the broader ideational...
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Innovation Adoption;
Natural Language Processing;
Knowledge;
Science;
Innovation and Invention;
Knowledge Sharing;
Analytics and Data Science
Cheng, Mengjie, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith, and Daniel A. McFarland. "How New Ideas Diffuse in Science." American Sociological Review 88, no. 3 (June 2023): 522–561.
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Chances Are
Years ago, while Amram Shapiro (MBA 1978) and a team of researchers were busy creating the probability database at the heart of his new compendium, The Book of Odds, the daughter of a friend sat in on one of their weekly data reviews. A...
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