Data Envelopment Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1996
News

New Releases

analysis by HBS professors David Bell and Arthur Schleifer have been released. The volumes - Decision Making Under Certainty; Decision Making Under Uncertainty; Data Analysis, Regression, and Forecasting;... View Details

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

think the data exists." (In these instances, I came up with estimates and went on with the necessary calculations.) I wasn't surprised. How many of us have sat in on board meetings where the analysis of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

employee engagement and wealth creation. This analysis reveals critical insights for business leaders seeking to address workforce disengagement while creating more equitable wealth distribution models. Play Video duration: 1:07 Beyond... View Details

Web

Neil Band | MBA

delivery for my senior thesis. Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: At Kensho, an AI/ML fintech company, I learned that the greatest discoveries of this century will be due to unprecedented scale of collaboration. Whether I was working... View Details

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

geographic office location," Stuart says. Although the research doesn't try to answer why corporate silos are so difficult to tear down, Stuart hopes the data will help managers understand, pinpoint, and remove bottlenecks within their... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Why Evolutionary Software Development Works

ratings were gathered using a two-round Delphi (in which information from the first round is given to all experts to help them make their final assessment). To assess the resource productivity of each project, the researchers calculated a measure of the lines of new... View Details

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack; Technology

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

Fast Answer

HBS Alumni Research Tips: Finding Company News & Industry Research

reports by industry/subject and/or geography, depending on publisher. Value Line provides information and advice on stocks, industries, mutual funds, options, and convertibles. Enter a company name or ticker to access a company profile that includes View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Short Takes

changes in the law that may have made filing easier. The authors base their assertions on an analysis of historical data involving bankruptcies and consumer credit. "When consumer credit expanded... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

Fast Answer

Real estate: emerging markets

financial market stability and sustained market access by emerging market borrowers. Regulations Doing Business Data and analysis that measures the business environment of more than 180 countries and... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

variable analysis and use the differences in the likelihood of retirement driven by Social Security retirement incentives in the United States to find a sizable increase in purpose in life as an outcome of retirement.” Emotional... View Details

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

solving in a multicultural context because it promotes a flow of novel ideas and concepts from cultures other than one's own. New ideas from other cultures can serve as raw materials for recombination or stimulate new thoughts. Combining social network View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

showed that immigrants who come into the country at a young age build better growing firms than those who come to the United States as adults. So far, the analysis only scratches the surface of what the platform could potentially tell us... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2015
News

Research Brief: Political Capital

Chung and doctoral student Lingling Zhang compare the efficacy of the two most common forms of campaigning: flooding the airwaves with advertising and building an elaborate get-out-the-vote ground operation. Chung and Zhang looked at 18,650 View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
Teaching Note

PittaRosso: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Pricing and Promotion

By: Ayelet Israeli

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-046. View Details

Citation

Purchase

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

antitrust authorities, who fear they could ultimately harm consumers by raising prices above typical competitive levels. It doesn’t seem too long ago when a price change was a major strategic decision for companies, requiring extensive View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

29 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

Working PapersInternational Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2004
News

Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits

launched two years ago. The original intent of the research project was to begin to collect data that would contribute to a “canon of business leadership” — a compendium of business leaders who have defined the way we live, work, and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

18 Oct 2016
News

China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

partner level,” he said. “They are brilliant, work 100 hours a week and are intensely competitive.” When considering in which startups to invest capital, Breyer said if the company does not include an artificial intelligence data View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

Publications