Data Governance - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

enforcement according to his measure of employment intensity, presenting his findings in the 2014 paper Government Preferences and SEC Enforcement. The data supported Heese's hypothesis. Companies in the top... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

29 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American cities have been on the upswing,... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Real Estate

19 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Education Pioneers

to student data analysis, external relations, operations, human resources, strategy and more. They solve problems from outside of the classroom so students and teachers can succeed inside of the classroom. How long has your organization... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

just simply that it exists, and that society needs to understand how it works. Ultimately, she concludes, government has a regulatory role to play in the baby trade. We asked Spar to discuss her research. Manda Salls: Why did you want to... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

09 May 2018
Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

fix those problems. The researchers studied a sampling of data from Hazel Analytics, which gathers food safety inspections from local governments across the United States. The sample included information on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

industry. Analysis of our data broadly supports our hypotheses. High levels of preexisting interorganizational trust increased the probability that a less formal, and thus less costly, mode of governance was... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

departments, intensive care units, and medical/surgical units. We collected survey data from nurses in those work areas. Measures: To measure the program's impact, we collected pre and post survey data on... View Details

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

expenses, are not taxed. In addition to this federal program, individual states have 529 savings plans, with similar goals and broadly similar features. Susan Dynarski at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has been looking at the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

providers are beginning to offer unique services, creating the facilities and organizations to effectively deliver them, and gathering the data to show superior performance and to continue to improve. Public policy can help accelerate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

appropriate. That's one pole of the continuum. At the other pole, you have people who really believe there's something extremely wrong with the barrel. Thus it's not just a matter of a few bad apples; what we really need is a wholesale revamping of the systems of View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

Web

Strategic Plan | Information Technology

Service Delivery Improvement Plan (completed) 2. Design Sustainable Technology Architecture 2.01: Baker Architecture Modernization Program 2.02: Cloud Program 2.03: Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Build for HBS IT 2.04: Data... View Details

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

When Stephen Kaufman took the helm at Arrow Electronics in 1982, it was de rigueur for CEOs to sit on the boards of several other companies in addition to running their own. Back then, serving as a board member didn't require much of a time commitment, and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Fast Answer

Companies: risk ratings

a suite of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) research and analysis products from MSCI. S&P Global ESG Scores provides environment, social, and governance View Details

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

farms of Europe and the US. It helps explain laws to protect small business from the ravages of the A&Ps and Walmarts. It increasingly drives politics as well as government policy. It is especially attractive at times of low growth... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2013
News

Sizing Up Social Impact

government and individual donors may have different priorities and demands, and soon a nonprofit trying to please too many (including the general public) pleases no one—least of all those constituents they were hoping to help.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

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Intraday quotes

example, to get intraday trading for the S&P 500 type SPX, hit INDEX, type GIT and hit GO For government bonds: Type the bond symbol then hit GOVT, type QR, and hit GO In View Details

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

are often shaped more by the political climate than by the actual climate. "The issue has become totally intertwined with political ideology," says Richard H.K. Vietor, the Paul Whiton Chertington Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who has been studying View Details