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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
draw people in, using more social media, employing jargon-free language, and “making everything simple and straightforward, from our registration process to the questions we ask,” says Giusti. Better Data... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
clinical trials,” Schwartzstein explains. That in turn could lead to lower levels of representation in clinical trials and less data on Black patients. Actually increasing representation in trial populations could help break the cycle,... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
Autism Science Foundation, which she founded in 2009, was a result of Tepper Singer's passion to fuel scientific research. To that end, ASF, which is based in New York City, funds pre- and post-doctorate fellowships for young scientists who can use the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
organizations with which Antares has partnered). The goal is to significantly improve the delivery of such products and services by achieving a commercially robust, self-sustaining footing, thereby ensuring lasting social and economic... View Details
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Workshops & Technical Talks - Research Computing Services
Introduction to Data Visualization with ggplot2 Cleaning Data in R Python Python workshop materials (e.g., Python Introduction; Python Web Scraping) from Harvard's Institute for Quantitative View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
door-to-door censuses across thousands of villages. Enter IDinsight, a nonprofit that helps international development organizations use data and evidence to realize their goals. IDinsight helped Educate Girls leverage available census,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
analytics-focused consulting firm made sense at a time when technology breakthroughs were fueling exponential growth in data generation and consumption. His three former employers—Answerthink, Bain, and Dow—quickly became the startup’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
bonds, a standard measurement used by investment firms. He then matched the data against instances of wrongdoing covering a six-year period. The more the portfolio balance tipped toward stocks, the greater the chance of trouble.... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for the clinic’s... View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service
helped Anar Foods manage a social media strategy, and laid the foundation for launching a new frozen-food product line. Anar Foods expressed their gratitude, “This program has been life-altering for me. It's given me much needed help... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
data and enhance the faculty’s understanding of key research topics. The second phase of alumni outreach and involvement began in March 2012 with a series of “Paths Forward” events in New York; Charlotte; Washington, DC; San Francisco;... View Details
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
portfolio," says Stuart. "All that is premised on the coordinating role of the corporate headquarters and corporate staff positions." The key word is theoretically. As Stuart explains, there is actually very little empirical View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
HBS in the mid-1970s—long before the dawn of social enterprise courses—Ferrari says he learned to think in a way that still serves him well in the nonprofit sector, where he’s seeking to make a major social... View Details
- February 1994
- Background Note
Causal Inference
Discusses what causation is and what one can (and cannot) learn about causation from observational (nonexperimental) data. View Details
Schleifer, Arthur, Jr. "Causal Inference." Harvard Business School Background Note 894-032, February 1994.
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
and climate of bordering Iran, is capable of producing saffron that bests the benchmark in color, taste, and aroma, says the cofounder of the new social enterprise company Earth2Globe. The still-small 1,700 acres of Afghanistan’s saffron... View Details
- 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
- Fast Answer
Music & Activism: Market Research Resources
“Gen Z” for a recent report on this demographic). Spotify – Musical Map of the World A great geographical look at top Spotify songs, updated weekly (including Cambridge, MA). Statista
Data and... View Details
Data and... View Details
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. We are connecting with some of our 59 View Details