Exploratory Data Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

it " would be enough to cause a resuscitated J.P. Morgan or Thomas Watson to look at today's corporate landscape and collapse with shock."). Through a combination of statistical analysis of their large leadership database and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 26

rewards, respectively. The analysis yields three main findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract. The effect of financial rewards is much smaller... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

words, create a better end-to-end consumer experience, with the result being a larger, deeper pool of data to draw on and drive progress in new therapies. Data and analytics “It takes an abundance of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

United States. In recent years, however, this centralized approach to the collection and analysis of adverse events through doctor-initiated case reports has been superseded by innovative, though episodic, pharmacoepidemiological studies... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

venture funding, up from 4 percent in 2004, according to data from PitchBook.) Murray is Kearney's thesis adviser. Huang, whom Brooks met in the initial stages of their research, studies the role of "gut feel" in investment... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Dec 2020
News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

human intelligence rather than replaces it. AI—and its subsets of machine learning and deep learning—has been transformative in the field of radiology, propelling it light years beyond Röntgen’s first X-ray image of his wife’s hand. It enables pattern recognition,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

analysis of the organization so that significant changes can be made based on what comes to light." Organizational fitness is based on the premise that an organization is a system. "You can't change all its elements... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

compared to other IPOs and the market at large. The analysis found flips underperformed the S&P 500 by 5 percent in the following three years. Lerner believes that problems with quick flips occur because of the short period that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

15 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

these hypotheses using network analysis and a simple multivariate regression that explains bank connections. I use comparable business directories to create databases with names of directors and financial information for all major... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

data science (2) get comfortable using Python and SQL for data analysis and (3) meet other HBSers interested in data science. Yuki Yaguchi (MBA... View Details

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

the pass-through of both gas prices and nominal exchange rate fluctuations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54935 forthcoming Consumption, Markets & Culture Big Data By: Deighton, John A. Abstract—Big... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

surprises, say Bazerman and Watkins, are a common form of leadership failure. "Predictable surprises happen when leaders had all the data and insight they needed to recognize the potential, even the inevitability, of major problems,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Press) The authors outline a method to discover and revitalize the exceptional business that exists inside an organization. The method relies on the well-established 80/20 rule to direct focus and attention; anchors analysis in the... View Details

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

analysis tools, since potential diabetics are identified on the basis of pharmacy and lab data as well as questionnaires and surveys. Not many organizations have ventured into this element of disease... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

a historical analysis of the U.S. tire industry from 1900 to 1990 suggest that the firms clustered in Akron initially led the industry in innovation, but later failed to respond effectively to the introduction of radial-tire technology.... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55409 Harvard Business School Case 119-023 Chateau Winery (A): Unsupervised Learning This case follows Bill Booth, marketing manager of a regional wine distributor, as he applies unsupervised learning on View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 30

longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change initiatives conducted at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2012
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

the viewers' emotional response with the help of eye-tracking technology combined with facial expression analysis software. Evoking surprise proved to be the most effective way of capturing attention, while evoking joy was the most... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54899 forthcoming Management Science How Do Sales Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Analysis in the Nerlove-Arrow Framework By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

June 2024
Case

Arete Research on Unity Software

By: Joseph Pacelli and Tonia Labruyere

Richard Kramer had founded Arete Research, an independent financial research provider, in 2000 after a successful career as a sell-side analyst at Goldman Sachs. He reflects on his team's coverage of Unity Software, a U.S.-based mobile games software company, that... View Details