Data Sharing - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

other people who went to the University of Chicago (where Chris and I received our Ph.D.'s ), we seemed to have a topic of conversation with our shared experiences there. We suspected this was likely to be the case in financial markets as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

10 Mar 2021
News

Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

don’t, the better. Data is the differentiator and will only become increasingly important. Can you give an example? For the past 30 years we’ve operated in an environment where interest rates have slowly declined. I don’t know what the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is negative, suggesting that more reliance on luck is correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

(MBA 1988) is cofounder and COO. She is also the founding CEO of Mediva, the company’s consulting arm. Platanus clinics share overnight resources and electronic medical records, so their combined 2,500 at-home palliative care patients... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

10 Nov 2015
First Look

November 10, 2015

were realized. What we label the CEO-specific Q and past return explains equity issuance, but it does not explain debt issuance, investment, or profitability. Two discontinuity analyses show that the specific share price that the current... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

special episode of the HBS podcast Staff Stories. Recorded in our remote studio on December 15, 2020. Published January 6, 2021 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print View Details

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

cover 90 percent of patients, jointly negotiate drug prices with manufacturers. In America's more fragmented and secretive system, pharmacy benefit managers act as mediators during many price negotiations. German consumers and physicians can also access the performance... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

01 Dec 2022
News

Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

particular field to work on projects across the School rather than be aligned with a specific academic unit at HBS, explains Drew Keller (MBA 2022), director of BiGS, who notes that next year’s cohort will focus on climate change and sustainability. “We hope that the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

16 Jan 2020
News

Hitting the High Notes

needs are the same. The number-one priority among C-suite executives is talent attraction and retention,” says Sheridan, who guides companies on best practices for employee engagement. “I’ve run three companies myself, so I use a lot of storytelling in my talks, View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

data (Miguelez and Fink, 2013), Figure 1 shows that America received more than half of migrating inventors from 2000-2010. Figure 1: Migration of inventors, 2000-2010 Immigrants can be found in times of success and times of crisis.... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

the horizon with regards to data, design, and diversity. Our understanding of data impacts how we curate and interpret it. The physical and virtual spaces we design set the tone for the ways we’re able to live and build. It stands to... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Short Takes

statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

19 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

says John. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had been shown the privacy notice.” In another experiment involving a car GPS system, the researchers showed some people a warning about how their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

21 Aug 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study

process. In a typical scenario, there is, of course, the systematic collection of data in order to learn about a company in detail. Then a dialogue needed to be established with the managers. The resulting conversations and interviews... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

questions on the business problems that affect entrepreneurs. “They can share insights about customer trends and help find workers to hire,” says Kerr. “They can say, ‘My convenience store is over here, and your convenience store is over... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

method (Bennis & O'Toole, 2005); teachers employ casual and often self-serving empirical evidence (Ghoshal, 2005); approaches are rarely grounded in well-established theoretical traditions (Doh, 2003); there are as yet few credible communities of practice dedicated... View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

25 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

Lean start-up strategies aren't just for start-ups anymore. That was the key message that Intuit cofounder Scott Cook (HBS MBA '76) shared in a small seminar with Harvard Business School faculty recently. Since its launch in 1983, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Jun 1999
News

New Releases

together a stellar record of performance while building a network of mentors to support and advise them. To uncover the processes that promote the development and advancement of minority executives, Thomas and Gabarro embarked on a six-year study analyzing promotion... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2009
News

The Fab Four

start new businesses. When you’re running a company, it’s a very lonely job. If you’re at a venture capital firm, you can share all the ups and downs with your partners and collaborate in a way that’s very fun and unique. Being an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=kupor%20tormala%20norton%20rucker.pdf Working Papers An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay By: Berry Jaeker, Jillian, and Anita Tucker Abstract—We use two years of inpatient... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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