Value Of Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

their study on France, having gained access to two valuable data sets: The first contained the entire debt portfolio for most of the 300 largest French local governments as of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

02 Jul 2024
Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

Figuring out the culture component again requires some self-examination, to determine what specific values and what unique lens on the world you bring to situations in order to leverage your unique voice and perspective in the pursuit... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

other groups to win at all costs—suddenly those traits don’t matter anymore. Loyalty forces you to focus in on your goal.” That Achilles’ heel of loyalty is one that managers need to be conscious of in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

trade relations between the two expanded. China, for a time, became a primary manufacturer of goods for US markets--economists estimate that up to 2 million manufacturing jobs shifted from America to China. At one time, the Chinese... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

could only be accomplished by specialists in less convenient, centralized settings. PCs, for example, brought computing power to individuals at a fraction of the cost of minicomputers, replacing the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

and law firms dealing with data overload. Seeking $3 million. In an opening welcome, HBS Dean Kim B. Clark said entrepreneurship has become not only a tremendous engine of growth in the United States but... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

learning or competition, regulatory issues related to image and data de-identification and access, and development of contest designs that motivate participation and provide information structures that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

office address that is legitimate in the minds of stakeholders. Firms have to work at maintaining their status in the hierarchy, while legitimacy is a critical issue only in the early stages of firms' lives.... View Details

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

retrenchment; think growth. Key concepts include: Companies that survive the financial crisis by identifying and exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future—and will be the industry leaders of tomorrow. This... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

provider, you have 10 million data points that help you decide on how to optimally allocate your money, and everything is automated. That’s the future of banking.” The robot edge Investors in marketplace... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

researchers gathered data from Twitter (the platform now called X), Google searches, and high-frequency surveys like The Gallup Poll Social Series, Nationscape, and Cooperative Congressional Election Study to chart the evolution View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

learning a new platform, the value of a new platform, and, perhaps most important, the popularity of a new platform. “There’s been a massive proliferation View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

customers be able to see what pieces of data may have led to a loan rejection or a lower credit limit? Should regulators have access to the algorithms and test them for the impact they have on underserved or... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

30 Apr 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management

Marketing executives value entertainment-related endorsements because of the difficulty of reaching a wide group of consumers using traditional... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Sports; Publishing; Auto

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

accountability. Focused tightly on the bottom line, these companies don't know how to quantify the value of legacy functions, which often evolve into jobs that simply support those departments that drive the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

principles in a way that matches the context of the particular company, industry, and supply chain. EE: How would you summarize the program's takeaway value to participants? Or stated another way, how will... View Details