Data Sharing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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... View Details

Keywords: 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... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Adoption; Natural Language Processing; Knowledge; Science; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Analytics and Data Science

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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.... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

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... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; probability

01 Jan 2014
News

To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

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... View Details

05 Sep 2017
News

Living the Quantitative Life

works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years of data about himself. He and I... View Details

26 Jul 2018
News

Running the Numbers

people to buy into a new vision or better way of doing things is my favorite kind of challenge.” Today, as CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), a Massachusetts-based tech-intensive company focused on data management, strategic... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

26 Nov 2019
News

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream

threatening cash flow issues. On the flip side, new questions arise, such as what is in the algorithms being written and who owns a customer’s data? How we choose to use and share our financial data will be... View Details

Keywords: fintech; Artificial intelligence; Small business

01 Jun 2014
News

Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World

always outpace static compliance requirements, so trying to meet them amounts to a misallocation of resources, often costly and with little promise of better security. The ever-increasing data gathered by Internet giants such as Google... View Details

Keywords: cybersecurity; Information

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... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2016
News

HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing business leaders across the... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

draw people in, using more social media, employing jargon-free language, and “making everything simple and straightforward, from our registration process to the questions we ask,” says Giusti. Better Data Crunching The investment required... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

07 Feb 2018
News

Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman

August. The search for a new chairman was prompted in mid-2017 after activist investing firm Elliott Management bought a 9 percent share of the company. That move also triggered about $100 million in cost-cutting changes, including 400... View Details

Keywords: Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

20 Jan 2015
News

Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

health care system. Bushkin’s unassuming item is MedKaz®, a 4-GB flash drive carried on a keychain or in a wallet that can hold a lifetime of medical records, giving patients control over their data and providing a full picture for... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Using Cloud Storage & Services at HBS | Information Technology

any sensitive data, please remember: Any computer that you are connecting to your Dropbox or OneDrive folders must be protected. (See Using Personal Devices at HBS for more info) Do not share sensitive data... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

challenges have you encountered in setting up HBS's first international research office? It's a tremendous challenge to establish a platform to facilitate research across more than fourteen Asian countries with multiple languages, cultures, and infrastructures.Also,... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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