data science - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

of personalized medicine into clinical practice. Why does it seem that science is often so far ahead of practice in the medical field? Science has moved especially quickly in the last five years with the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

and studied the performance of the algorithms with Kirk Bansak, an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley. The work builds from their partnership with the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University, which uses View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

Yeo's ninth-floor office in one of the seven gleaming new buildings of Singapore's Biopolis-a $500 million, eighteen-acre complex dedicated to cutting-edge research and development in the biomedical sciences by the world's leading... View Details

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1.6 Degree Requirements | MBA

Control (FRC) Data Science and AI for Leaders (DSAIL) 1.5 credits Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) Marketing (MKT) FIELD Global Capstone (CAP) Strategy (STRAT)... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Fueling Innovation

By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that would not have been possible... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Blog Post

There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS

recounted lessons she learned throughout her life gave me the sense I could pretty much do anything. During my final year of high school, I identified my love for science and beauty, but I didn’t know what I could do with these seemingly... View Details

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

varying interests, separate career goals, and only one is pre-MBA. Yet each was able to acquire a set of business fundamentals applicable to their specific needs. Laura, the eldest, has a Masters in Family Sciences degree with a... View Details

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

widespread data about companies’ climate risks, rising insurance costs offer a valuable bellwether, said Luca Albertini, CEO of Leadenhall Capital Partners, during a panel discussion. If the cost to insure a construction project, say, on... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

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

September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
Teaching Note

PittaRosso: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Pricing and Promotion

By: Ayelet Israeli

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-046. View Details

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01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books

The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2010
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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

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

organic and indulgent items. Photo: iStockPhoto Looking at loyalty card data from a large grocery chain in California, Karmarkar and Bollinger tracked and analyzed 936,232 purchases by 5,987 households across two years. To assess organic... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

study about the Genzyme Center—the first building in the nation to receive a LEED Platinum rating.) Toffel and Simcoe collected data on 735 California cities from 2001 to 2008, including LEED registrations, construction starts, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2025
Working Paper

Data-driven Technologies and Local Information Advantages in Small Business Lending

By: Wilbur Chen, Jung Koo Kang and Aditya Mohan

We investigate whether banks' adoption of data-driven technologies influences competitive dynamics in local small business lending by diminishing the information advantages traditionally held by local banks. Using local newspaper closures as an adverse shock to the... View Details

Keywords: Data-driven Technologies; Local Information Advantages; Local Banks; Relationship Lending; Small Business Loans; Small Business; Local Range; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science; Banking Industry

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01 Mar 2023
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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

28 Apr 2010
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Earth Day Reflections

water consumption in the firm's factories. The juxtaposition of information on both operations and CSR symbolizes the company's commitment to more than just the bottom line and its belief that both sets of data have a significant impact... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Mar 2012
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Faculty Books

Stevenson offers practical techniques and real-life stories about the art and science of asking for money. Topics include what motivates donors to give; the four donor questions one must be able to answer; how to craft compelling messages... View Details

Keywords: Professor Bill George; Professor Joseph L. Bower; Professor Herman B. Leonard; Professor Lynn S. Paine; Professor Howard Stevenson; Professor Noam Wasserman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

December 2010
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Risk and Reward in Venture Capital

By: William A. Sahlman

This note describes the payoff structure of investment in individual venture capital–backed companies and in venture capital portfolios. Venture Capital investments are characterized by high failure rate (0ver 50%) and a small number of given successes (greater than... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Analytics and Data Science; Failure; Performance; Information Technology

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