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Article databases: Which to choose? | Baker Library

newspapers, newswires, and transcripts. Legal reports from federal and state courts, federal laws and regulations, and other government information. ProQuest TDM Studio Best for text and data mining. Allows researchers to run analysis on... View Details

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SME research

business) and (Small to medium-sized enterprises) and (your keywords here) Science Direct Use the Advanced Search feature (link in top right corner) to enter the search strategy below: ((SME) and (small and medium sized... View Details

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Text Mining Resources

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

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs

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13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

expressed the frustration that many people in the biotech industry feel as he clicked through the depressing data in gloomy graphs on a big screen. "It's not a very profitable sector of the economy" based on the performance of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

07 Jul 2022
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Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

workflow, I see an incredible opportunity to build a world that uses skills and capabilities to efficiently grow organizations. These inefficiencies disproportionately impact diverse talent who don’t always have the same level of support as they join and grow in... View Details

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

has been interested in this age-old question since graduate school. In order to answer it, he looked around for some kind of hard data that would allow him to make an apples-to-apples comparison of which form was better—and under what... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

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Market Perspectives

Where can I find resources for my paper or project? Sources for U.S. Economic Data Economic Reports Literature and article resources: Academic Search Premier - a multi-disciplinary database that provides access to full text material from... View Details

February 2024 (Revised August 2025)
Teaching Note

Travelogo: Understanding Customer Journeys

By: Eva Ascarza and Ta-Wei Huang

Teaching Note for HBS Exercise 524-044. The exercise aims to teach students about 1) Customer Segmentation; and 2) constructing buying personas, 3) Get actionable insights from clickstream data. View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Analysis; Analytics and Data Science; Marketing Strategy; Segmentation; Consumer Behavior; Travel Industry; United States

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2011
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Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization

By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman

Homophily in social relations is widely documented. We know that homophily results from both individual preferences and uneven opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in formal organizations is not well understood. We argue that... View Details

Keywords: Interactive Communication; Analytics and Data Science; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Behavior; Internet and the Web; Theory; Information Technology Industry

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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

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Elliot Tobin

football.” After earning his bachelor’s degree in economics, management from MIT and a master’s in applied economics and data science from Boston College, the Minnesota transplant is currently balancing his... View Details

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Drake Du | MBA

Drake Du Computer Science Lowell 2026 Cohort 7 I am honored to be able to serve as a Roberts Family Fellow and have the opportunity to learn and innovate among a community of peers, mentors, and faculty across Harvard University. Each day... View Details

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Monica Chang | MBA

Monica Chang Social Studies, Secondary in Computer Science Kirkland 2023 Cohort 4 As a student dedicated to public service, I hope to learn more about how technology and entrepreneurship can be harnessed to address complex societal... View Details

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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

from informed and discerning minds. “All data science is political. It’s impossible to take a dataset and analyze it in a “perfectly objective” way. Because you’re always going to be putting on there some... View Details

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Associate professor in the School of Public Policy; director of the Data Science and Policy Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology Using AI to ensure an equitable distribution of EV infrastructure As the... View Details

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Terrance McGuire

such success stories as Akamai Technologies, which enabled the rapid movement of data over the Internet, and deCODE Genetics, a global leader in analyzing the human genome based in Iceland. Early on, Polaris decided to invest in the... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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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

22 Sep 2021
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Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

living in San Francisco working at a data science startup as a product manager. I have always gravitated toward technology and science throughout my life, and machine learning,... View Details

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