social data - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers

attention to mental health, it was data that shaped the Goodness Web itself: One in five adults in the United States suffers from a mental health illness each year, and 46 percent will have a mental health condition during their lifetime.... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right

complex emotionally, cognitively, and socially for people. I first encountered PWYW at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then I discovered that Radiohead had released its In Rainbows album using a PWYW model. Now it’s used by digital... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2001
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Porter Directs New Institute at HBS

and a number of other areas, the ISC seeks to develop new theory, assemble bodies of data to test and apply theory, and share its ideas broadly with business, government, academia, and nongovernmental organizations. The institute also... View Details

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

17 Mar 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York

interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social and... View Details

18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

Yahoo, the challenge is to catalyze growth at an Internet company with tremendous assets. I’m learning every day how to inspire people to challenge conventional wisdom, use data to drive decisions, and tackle roadblocks proactively. I’ve... View Details

Keywords: Google; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

data tells you one thing, but it’s talking to people and being out in the world that really give you the creative power to see what’s next.” Joint venture: “We built Bluemercury while we were building our family and associate each one of... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Service with a Smile

data from 111 workers — college students who labored in service jobs — the pair measured job satisfaction and its relationship to whether workers were being asked to hide or exaggerate emotions. Their study, “A Longitudinal Analysis of... View Details

Keywords: Laura Morgan Roberts; Stephane Cote; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

book based on their expertise. Les chantiers de ma vie by Claude Lefebvre (OPM 10, 1985) with Hélène-Andrée Bizier (Cyfbel) An autobiography of an engineer and entrepreneur from Québec. Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the View Details

10 Oct 2018
News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

percent. Give low- and middle-income customers access to low-interest-rate loans by using a predictive algorithm that uses nontraditional data to measures creditworthiness. “There’s a spectrum of behavior,” says Ayala. “On the one extreme... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out

to tackle more complex tasks like pruning and picking. The Question: For now, AGR is focused on nailing the initial market fit, Andersen says, but at some point he’ll have to face the question of empire building. Other companies have expressed interest in the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

enough data to build a lot of the career matching profiles, we got our career matches. So we were all very excited when the day arrived that we could see what am I really a good fit for, because it could tell me that I'm actually a really... View Details

28 Oct 2021
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Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

when half of us are held back. The data are clear: Empowered women transform societies.” The discussion was moderated by Jennifer Openshaw, a MarketWatch columnist and the CEO of Girls With Impact, which she co-created with Applegate.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

models in distinctive ways, the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF) and the Anti Racism Fund (ARF) are empowering changemakers within communities of color and forging community-business partnerships that support... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2010
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Health IT at the Bedside

Jain (MBA '07) Courtesy Sachin Jain As a physician, I’m a great believer in health IT. So I’m always confused by how slowly and unevenly it has been adopted in medicine, a field where new technologies and techniques are often embraced with vigor. To be sure, new... View Details

Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

this work through longitudinal data collection, research, education, and the dissemination of best practices. We are also committed to diversifying the protagonists of our case studies so they better reflect our student body. Since... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction

Social Sciences 47% Other 4% (All data as of Summer 1997) Members of the Class of 1997 participated in a three-day graduation celebration last spring leading up to the School's 86th Commencement exercises on... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes

Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper series on View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Sep 2004
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Survey Spotlights HBS Experience

persuading others (68 percent). The survey confirmed the expected with regard to the senior positions held by alumni. About 34 percent identify themselves as officer/chairman, and 25 percent as president/principal. The data also show the... View Details