data science - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2021
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Ink: Talking Shop

Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life By Rory Sutherland “This book points out that data is driving too much decision-making and that executives have lost the art of management.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map

headlines this year for releasing its research on a subscription-only basis, a stance that has caused some consternation in the scientific community. Thanks to large investments in automated gene-sequencing machines - and, it might be added, its use of free View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Mar 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

the research has been far slower than it should be.” Van Etten is committed to improving the process on the business and management side. He is promoting the concept of “team science” and trying to increase the sharing of data and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration - the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura of science fiction mystery. When the champagne corks popped at midnight, however,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive

scientific advancement, team-building, and international cooperation. And the goal had never been a world record for one man. “We want to open the door for future exploration by science and business,” Vescovo later explained.... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Dec 2005
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Buy the Book

own money in outlets such as television commercials and billboards that are more frequently used for fast food than books. What-ever the genre (he has also published romance novels, science fiction, and children’s books), readers expect a... View Details

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

01 Mar 2005
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Desert Dust-Up

Simmons Photo Courtesy Simmons & Co. INTL. Oil and water don’t mix. That truism about elements at odds could also serve as an analogy for Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67), who’s sometimes known as a petroleum-industry contrarian. But it’s the hard View Details

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

02 Jun 2019
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A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

and economics who draw on data to inform managerial and policy decisions, they decided to see if they could use their skills to examine gun violence in America. Today, nearly seven years later, research conducted by Malhotra and Luca has... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

path, clearly illustrating how the traditional power dynamic has inverted and why it matters for business survival. Bines offers six proven models you can use to cultivate and serve highly informed and empowered customers. Influence Is Your Superpower: The View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Collective Wisdom

the space agency in applying open innovation approaches to big data and computational challenges, and works with Harvard Catalyst, the University-wide initiative led by Harvard Medical School. What are some examples of different kinds of... View Details

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message

purchases, to time-of-day surfing, to domain name -- in order to develop a user profile. DoubleClick then uses this data to match Web users with advertisers. DoubleClick's Salzman explains it like this: "If you and I went to the same page... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

life, we make these types of decisions with our partners. We have some data now on time-saving purchases and heterosexual couples. The general pattern is that time-saving purchases promote relationship satisfaction for both partners. In... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

make up for lost years, he was surprised to find himself at Harvard at age 23. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013)... View Details

17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

the single most important factor in the rapid proliferation of personal computers. Bricklin, who took a shine to computer programming while still in high school in the 1960s, earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer View Details