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21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

ballot fraud have erupted and intense focus invested in possible measures to ensure election integrity. States have increasingly enacted voter ID laws as one such deterrent. But we also know that laws aimed at securing the voting process,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2003
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Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions of dollars were lost. Even in small protected niche markets such as... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

segregated white and Black neighborhoods. Analysis by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition indicates that three-quarters of the neighborhoods graded as hazardous 80 years ago are now low- to moderate-income communities, with... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

Mosul. We supported the infantry soldiers who were securing the smaller towns on the roads leading to Baghdad from Kuwait. I didn’t get to fly, but I was given a leadership role. There was a lot of gratification in knowing that I was able... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

01 Nov 2018
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Forecasting Airport Transfer Passenger Flow Using Real-Time Data and Machine Learning

Keywords: by Xiaojia Guo, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, and Bert De Reyck; Air Transportation; Travel

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

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Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA's Office of National Estimates

By: J. Peter Scoblic

Would-be forecasters have increasingly extolled the predictive potential of Big Data and artificial intelligence. This essay reviews the career of Sherman Kent, the Yale historian who directed the CIA’s Office of National Estimates from 1952 to 1967, with an eye toward... View Details

Keywords: National Security; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; History

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Ghana

Useful for: news and analysis on African business, policy, innovation, and lifestyle. Africa Confidential Useful for: in-depth news and analysis on significant political, economic and View Details

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

companies their firms are issuing securities for—or hope to do business with. The research, "Playing Favorites: Financing Options Sway Analysts' Thinking," was published in the June 2004 edition of Investor Relations Quarterly.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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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 datatypes, value ranges, missing... View Details

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HBS Alumni Research Tips: Finding Market Data & Insights

artificial intelligence, blockchain, connected devices and IoT, digital business, robotics and drones, and security tech. For industry information click on sectors. For trends and insight click on analysis. There are many frameworks for... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Medicine made personal

Australia-born Arjun Goyal (MBA 2014) credits HBS with helping him focus his career on life sciences, specifically “personalized medicine”—a tailored approach to treatment based on analysis of patient populations. With his classmate Louis... View Details

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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

school should enroll in LME Career Focus: Every MBA should understand how law affects business. In addition to serving as a Senior Lecturer at HBS, I am a retired Securities Litigation Partner at WilmerHale in Boston. I draw upon examples... View Details

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Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge

duties. The analysis reveals how deeply small businesses—most employing fewer than 500 people—are connected to the international economy. To be sure, the analysis suggests that some owners might be open to... View Details

25 Jun 2018
Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

end of January, he had secured an offer from Barry’s to serve as a business analysis consultant. “It’s a cross-functional role working with the head of customer insights,” says Aaron. “I’ll be working on... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Bloomberg: Investment Management course tips

information in Bloomberg? Real Estate Investment Securities How can I get real estate information in Bloomberg? Short Interest Data How can I find short interest by company in Bloomberg? Stock Analysis How... View Details

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

A: Historically careful analysis of corporate information on a large number of companies has required an investor (or at least the investor's organization) to master a difficult and arcane set of data-handling tools. XBRL has the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Mar 2015
News

Research Brief: Political Capital

And if John Kerry had made a push for independents and upped his spending on ads by roughly 50 percent in Iowa and 80 percent in Ohio, he would have secured the two states, their 27 electoral votes, and the presidency. Ultimately, Chung... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

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What We Learned in Three Charts: Innovation, Tariffs, and Gig Work | Working Knowledge

300,000 products analyzed, the prices of goods imported from China have increased the most. 3. Gig work might not be great for one's well-being Gig work might offer flexibility, but research by Ryan Buell and Paige Tsai reveals important drawbacks . Their View Details

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