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- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
points, assists, fouls, and minutes played. And because players frequently change teams, it’s easy to compare how a player fares when playing for different coaches. For a paper Zhang published on the topic last year in Administrative Science Quarterly, Zhang downloaded... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
technology so it could be useful to Western Union's most profitable real-time long-distance data customers. When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its processes, what comes out the other... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
December 2019 data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/f6hQ9v7qNZ0A2qHlEzvt][/div] And women continue to lag behind men in their ability to advance to higher ranks within organizations. While 48... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
the likelihood of side effects. Inspire FOMO. Second, we recommend incentivizing the fear of missing out, both socially and economically. For example, recently 82 percent of adults said they are not comfortable visiting family or close... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
Japan's Fujitsu; in 1996 they were two and a half times those of its largest competitors, Japan's Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard. IBM had, of course, been the dominant enterprise in the data processing industry well before the coming of the... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
data and how to interpret the results. By the end of the course, you should understand how to create a data-driven framework for your organization or yourself; develop hypotheses and insights from visualization; identify View Details
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
approach to various planning-related problems I tackle each day. My ability to identify details related to business efficiency and performance that I may have missed in the past was fine-tuned in the program, and my understanding of the... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
another party's, they interpret data to favor that party. Attachment breeds bias. Approval. An audit ultimately endorses or rejects the client's accounting—in other words, it assesses the judgments that someone in the client firm has... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
created the world, he made data only available about the past. As teachers at HBS, we're trained to nail students to the wall if they ever make an assertion in class discussion that is not backed up with View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
broadened to include management dynamics in entrepreneurial and venture capital firms. Despite attention from the media, relatively little hard information exists on these companies; Wasserman is using data collected from two hundred... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
– Less Info This article explores the impact of social media and smartphones on youth, highlighting parental concerns about increasing anxiety and depression. Data shows high engagement rates among children and adolescents: 90% of infants... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
initial interviews, however, we kept hearing the same concern: "Thank goodness you folks are doing this. All of us collectively need to take a hard look at the state of business education." Srikant Datar: With that prompting, we expanded our efforts. We collected... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
A venture capitalist with a career spanning three decades and a net worth of $2.6 billion is certain to have had a few big fish escape his hook over the years. For Jim Breyer (MBA 1987) of Breyer Capital, the Moby Dick that haunts him more than a quarter of a century... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- Web
Bearing engineer and his three dimensional graph - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Production Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 next Bearing engineer and his three dimensional graph ca. 1941 Chrysler Corporation Photographer unknown Given the data on speed,... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- Blog Post
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events that match your hiring needs Finding Student Clubs to partner with that are relevant to your target audience 2) Data & Statistics - The new data and statistics section provides a more interactive... View Details
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Corporate venture funds invested wisely can propel a company forward
In researching R&D funding at large corporations, Josh Lerner (PhD/PMD 62, 1991), the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, noted a recent trend toward decentralizing research functions and slashing research budgets. The results, he says, can be disastrous,... View Details
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Database Best Practices - Research Computing Services
potential security restrictions, including who will have access to the data and editing permissions. Planning your database Knowing your data well is a crucial first step. Ensure that you are familiar with... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) As a high-frequency trader in Chicago, Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) worked the American markets from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., then the Asian markets from 8:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. But something was View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
Creativity (Oxford University Press) spells it all out. The Missing Link Higgins became interested in this missing link after watching a young biotech company go through two public offerings in the early... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
economy.” “The water industry, and solutions to people's watering needs, is as old as civilization itself. If you look at the ancient ruins in Petra, you see little aqueducts that carried water to people who needed it. What's missing is... View Details