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  • Web

Online AI Course | HBS Online

diverse applications of AI, machine learning, predictive modeling, and data science Explore ethical AI-related challenges to implement it responsibly and manage risks Develop the skills and frameworks to... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

After-action reviews often neglect to address the multiple factors contributing to large-scale organizational failures. How Should Organizations Learn From Failure? Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science After successive failures to... View Details
  • Student-Profile

Filippo Mezzanotti

I was born in Italy and grew up in a small town called Cesena. I moved to Milan after high school to attend Bocconi University, where I earned my Bachelor and Master of Science in Economics and Social Sciences. During my undergraduate... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

All Hands on Deck

number of Harvard Business School Online courses, such as Global Business and Leading with Finance, as well as in a data science bootcamp designed to teach students how to leverage big View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
  • 01 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

Kerr and Lincoln analyzed Current Population Survey data on that time period. Not surprisingly, growth in the H-1B program directly correlated with an uptick in the number of immigrants working in science... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 01 Aug 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

have been preoccupied with the question of financial institutions becoming too big to fail. But recent data points have me asking whether the relevant question should be whether financial (and other organizations) bear a greater risk of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain? Authors:Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr Abstract Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Curriculum | MBA

key disciplines. Fall Term Finance 1 Financial Reporting & Control (FRC) Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) Marketing Technology & Operations Management (TOM) Strategy Spring Term Data Science & AI... View Details
  • Web

HBS - From The Dean

management. Our research agenda must reflect the shifts that are occurring in the world of business, such as digitization and data science. But this must not come at the expense of the human element, designing business and operating... View Details
  • February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
  • 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
  • Working Paper

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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  • August 2008
  • Article

Economic Links and Predictable Returns

By: Lauren Cohen and Andrea Frazzini
This paper finds evidence of return predictability across economically linked firms. We test the hypothesis that in the presence of investors subject to attention constraints, stock prices do not promptly incorporate news about economically related firms, generating... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Price; Assets; Analytics and Data Science; Customers; Stocks; Equity; Strategy; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
  • Case

Timberjack Parts: Packaged Software Selection Project

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Darryl S. Romanow
This case provides a realistic, current, and detailed view of software procurement in an international business environment where the competition in enterprise-wide software solutions is growing. Focuses on the selection of packaged software to serve multiple sites... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Multinational Firms and Management; Operations; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 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
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

Gender Difference in Patenting in the Academic Life Sciences Authors:Waverly W. Ding, Fiona Murray, and Toby E. Stuart Periodical:Science 313 (August 2006): 665-667 Abstract We analyzed longitudinal data on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2010
  • Background Note

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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  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

seniors' money by offering a caregiver-managed debit card account with personalized spending controls and extra protection from fraud and scams. Johnston likens the growing opportunities in aging to the old high school science lesson of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services
  • 28 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

data science makes this model obsolete. Behavioral scientists tell us that where there is human interaction, people will have biases that influence their decisions, typically in the wrong way. “Now decisions... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

The problem with big data is that there is, well, so much of it. Analyzing it is like trying to sip from a firehose. Just in time, a new book on the art and science of quantitative analysis arrives this... View Details
  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

Psychological Science Should Governments Invest More in Nudging? By: Benartzi, Shlomo, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler, Maya Shankar, Will Tucker-Ray, William J. Congdon, and Steven Galing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne