Exploratory Data Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

likely to be rewarded for their ideas in male-typed domains when gender is known. This is partly due to discrimination and partly due to differences in self-promotion. External analysis of the chat data... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA

wrote case studies on MBA programs at Chicago, INSEAD, Stanford, Yale, and HBS, plus a case on the Center for Creative Leadership (all are available from Harvard Business Publishing); collected data on aggregate trends in MBA enrollments... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

among those working closely with Japanese employees highlights intergroup contact as a factor in shaping the unearned status gain experience. Supplemental analysis of data gathered from 66 Japanese employees... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their... View Details

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

poor on a commercial basis. Publisher's site: Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis Authors:Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman Periodical:Management... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-097.pdf The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

experience a different educational model. “Cases can’t always completely capture the way the real world unfolds,” says Roberts, explaining that participants must source primary data and conduct in-depth View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

U.S. manufacturing industries from the Economic Census. We then relate coagglomeration levels to the degree to which industry pairs share goods, labor, or ideas. To reduce reverse causality, where co-location drives input-output linkages or hiring patterns, we use... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

blah, blah. Talking about a case and the antipathy towards theory, the lack of a foundation in disciplines like economics and mathematics and so on, I thought was appalling. Okay. So on one WAC, you know, Written Analysis of Case. Okay.... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

Lou Wells taught me what I think of as ‘granular mastery’—that all truth is found in specific detail,” says Bradley, who as a student researched and wrote an article for Harvard Business Review about the overseas expropriation of US assets. After running a regression... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

empirical analysis shows that on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls." NPEs sue cash-rich firms—and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

multi-year strategy to expand next-generation care management/care delivery model nationally. Prior to joining CareMore, Dr. Jain was Chief Medical Information and Innovation Officer at Merck & Co, where he developed global partnerships to leverage health View Details

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

launch were exhausting but exciting as we raced to hit our deadlines. We were living the Silicon Valley dream. The afternoon before the launch, I had retreated to a quiet restaurant to work alone when my phone rang. It was our data center... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

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