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  • March 2022
  • Article

Where to Locate COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Facilities?

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Michael Lingzhi Li and Alessandro Previero
The outbreak of COVID-19 led to a record-breaking race to develop a vaccine. However, the limited vaccine capacity creates another massive challenge: how to distribute vaccines to mitigate the near-end impact of the pandemic? In the United States in particular, the new... View Details
Keywords: Vaccines; COVID-19; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Performance Effectiveness; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods
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  • June 2021 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

MicroStrategy: Accounting for Cryptocurrency

By: Jonas Heese and Annelena Lobb
On February 15, 2021, Alina Moss, an analyst who covered the technology company MicroStrategy, pondered a rise in MicroStrategy’s share price. Moss had dialed into the company earnings call. When it ended, Moss had more questions than answers. MicroStrategy had... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Share Price; Electronic Commerce; Intangible Assets; Assets; Accounting; Financial Statements; Financial Management; Financial Reporting; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce
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  • July 2023
  • Article

So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By: Ravi Bapna, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad and Akhmed Umyarov
With one-third of marriages in the United States beginning online, online dating platforms have become important curators of the modern social fabric. Prior work on online dating has elicited two critical frictions in the heterosexual dating market. Women, governed by... View Details
Keywords: Online Dating; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Gender; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • October 1994
  • Article

When Worlds Collide: The Implications of Panel Data-Based Choice Models for Consumer Behavior

By: R. S. Winer, R.E. Bucklin, J. A. Deighton, J. Erdem, P.S. Fader, J.J. Inman, H. Katahira, Katherine N. Lemon and A. Mitchell
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • Web

Eligibility | New Venture Competition

Eligibility Social Enterprise Track Course Listing Business at the Base of the Pyramid (HBS) Data for Impact (HBS) Education Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective (HGSE) Entrepreneurial Solutions (HBS)... View Details
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

submitted. Seeking answers from the crowd may be more important than ever. Even as the use of data science is expanding, we face a shortage of 1.8 million data scientists.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Inside Modern HR

go head-to-head with other corporate functions to bring more analytical rigor to talent decision-making. For example, we can look at our hiring data over the last five years and correlate a college major or a previous workplace against... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • November 2001 (Revised August 2005)
  • Case

BigEast Bank (A): Credit Card Approval

By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
BigEast is considering adopting a relationship-centric view in its credit card approval process. This would shift the bank's current practice of analyzing applications based on the merits of a single product to one where the customer's existing relationship is... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Forecasting and Prediction; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science; Managerial Roles; Relationships; Adoption; Banking Industry
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  • 25 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

is. “It will become less and less a mysterious thing and more of a regular topic taught in schools in 20 years,” says Teodorescu. “It will be something everyone learns.” For business, data science... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

of internationalizing firms’ policies that require employees of diverse skill sets to adopt English as their business language. For the past four years, with extensive support from the School’s research centers in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, she has gathered View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Fast Answer

Text Mining Resources

Baker Library has licensed the following newspapers for data mining from ProQuest. Currently, the newspapers are available on hard... View Details
  • Web

Mike Liu | MBA

Mike Liu Statistics, Secondary in Computer Science Leverett 2021 Cohort 3 "Be stubborn on vision but flexible on details." —Bezos Tech areas of interest: Fintech, Data Visualization, SaaS Formative... View Details
  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

about these ideas. We gathered thirty years of U.S. patent data and wrote up some code that identifies the inventors and links them to each other for three million patents and two million inventors. Our first cut was to look at the... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Fueling Innovation

for alumni ventures, and the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab for biotech and life science ventures. MBA PROGRAM ENHANCEMENTS To prepare its students to lead, HBS is constantly refining the MBA Program, developing new courses and cases,... View Details
  • 2022
  • Chapter

Measuring Compliance Risk and the Emergence of Analytics

By: Eugene F. Soltes
Corporate compliance manages a diverse set of regulatory and reputational concerns ranging from fraud to privacy to discrimination. However, effectively managing such risks has often been hampered by a lack of adequate information about when, where, and why misconduct... View Details
Keywords: Compliance; Risk; Analytics; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Harvard Business School Case 118-014 Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart This case was written for the EC course “Managing with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Get Well Soon

to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for the clinic’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Is AI OK?

data science (e.g., unbiased data and algorithms), better implementation (e.g., understanding the target audience and market conditions), and better policies (e.g., auditing... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 24 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand

her own hands to break the technological glass ceiling. She decided to invest in external courses—specifically, the Data Science program at General Assembly—to bolster her data... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Data-Driven and in Demand

her own hands to break the technological glass ceiling. She decided to invest in external courses—specifically, the Data Science program at General Assembly—to bolster her data... View Details