Data Envelopment Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

30 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

works at Google in their Go-to-Market organization supporting the largest media advertising agencies in the world. Tell us about your life before HBS. Before HBS, I worked at HBO as a New Media Analyst in their Financial Planning and View Details

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2.1.1 Citing Sources & Plagiarism | MBA

from others. For example, if the source of a particular idea or analysis is a discussion group, the student should acknowledge the group when presenting the information. Students who submit work that is not their own without clear... 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

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

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

brainstorming, and research, it became clear that despite its enormous value, COVID-19 policy data at the more granular county level was virtually nonexistent. In response, HBS MBA students teamed up with Hikma Health to crowdsource the... View Details

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

Analysts and Research Reports," and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) issued Rule 472, "Communications with the Public." Both were effective in May of 2002, which is subsequent to the data used in our study, but seem to... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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

01 Jun 2017
News

Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

platform, Lakhani developed the NASA Tournament Lab to create contests that improve computer codes and data analytics solutions. With Harvard Medical School researchers, he designed a competition to break 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

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

May 2016 Journal of Accounting Research Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research By: Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—In the published proceedings of the rst Journal... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

November 2021 (Revised December 2021)
Supplement

PittaRosso (B): Human and Machine Learning

By: Ayelet Israeli

This case supplements the "PittaRosso: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Pricing and Promotion" case, and provides major highlights on what happened at the company since the first case. View Details

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Filippo Mezzanotti

research interests are broadly focused on corporate finance and political economics. Motivated by my interest in both of these fields, I am currently working on a project with a fellow student that will employ Italian data to understand... View Details

27 Sep 2016
First Look

September 27, 2016

forthcoming Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges By: Kaplan, Steven N., and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper describes the available data and research on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

being.” Others challenged data documenting productivity trends. Their position basically was that there is no need for patience. The productivity dividend is happening. For example, David Wittenberg cautioned us to “Beware of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

tell a tale, the unassuming Robinson is a kind of John Grisham of the corporate financial world. For the past 25 years, he has been teasing out the narrative thread behind companies' financial data and helping them use the information to... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

18 Jan 2012
News

Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem

of data from this survey highlights the need for business leaders, policymakers, and academics to collaborate on practical ways to make progress,” something well within the nation’s reach, he added. In fact, the Project seeks to inspire... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 1996
News

GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria

The timing is an unfortunate coincidence. Far from a response to any poll, the decision to include GMAT scores as one piece of an applicant's portfolio is based on systematic analysis of data gathered over... View Details

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

gender and work, the paper, An Outside- Inside Internalization of Shifting Gender Logics in Professional Work, identifies cycles of organizational analysis and resulting actions sparked by transformations in societal beliefs and practices... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

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