Research Community
Research Resources
Research Resources
The research and teaching resources at Harvard are unmatched by any other school. Students can make use of virtually any methodology required to pursue their research interests, including field studies, large-scale statistical databases, consumer panel research, behavioral experiments, and theoretical and empirical models.
Support is available for methodological and statistical consultation, data procurement and analysis, programming, research software, subject pool administration, travel, and region-based field support. And, the collections of Baker Library—one of the world’s largest and most respected business libraries—are available at the center of the campus.
Harvard Business School
Baker Library
The collections of Baker Library—one of the world’s largest and most respected business libraries—are available at the center of the campus. Baker Research Services are available for data gathering and in-depth research.
Research Support
Baker Research Services provides doctoral students with research assistance, specializing in data retrieval, analysis, and management. Services include, but are not limited to data sourcing and purchasing, locating data, finding articles, managing citations, creating charts and graphs for papers or presentations, utilizing Baker Library’s databases, diving deeply into Excel’s functionality (including creating models), merging data from disparate sources, designing your study, deciding which statistical methods to employ, interpreting results, and writing a statistical program.
Behavioral Research Services
Harvard Business School’s Behavioral Research Services team supports experimental research and data collection from human subjects and operates the Computer Lab for Experimental Research (CLER) and subject pool.
Research Computing Services (RCS)
Research Computing Services (RCS) provides personalized research guidance for HBS doctoral students and faculty from a team of research analysts, statisticians, and programmers who assist doctoral students with planning, data collection and analysis, and reporting and visualization of outcomes. RCS also offers training workshops on research tools and practices, and provides access to sophisticated tools like the Odyssey compute cluster or the Research Computer Environment (RCE).
Harvard University
Harvard University Libraries
HBS Doctoral students have access to the more than 90 libraries that form the Harvard University libraries system.
Harvard Decision Science Laboratory
The Harvard Decision Science Laboratory is a university-wide research laboratory. The HSDL is a cutting edge biobehavioral research facility offering investigators a wide range of research tools for the precise and rigorous investigation of how emotion, cognitive processes, and the neuroendocrine system shape judgement and decision making.
Institute For Quantitative Social Sciences
The Institute for Quantitative Social Studies (IQSS) provides a wide array of data science resources to facilitate and accelerate social science research. Through their consulting services, students can receive help in the areas of research design, statistics, visualization, and research tools and methods. IQSS also offers training in Python, R, and Stata.
Academic Resource Center
The services of the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) are designed to support students in their efforts to learn and grow at Harvard. PhD students benefit from BSC’s many workshops, including the reading and study strategies, dissertation writing, and keeping ourselves accountable. Students also have the option to meet with BSC staff for one to one academic counseling.
Center For Writing & Communicating Ideas
The Center for Writing and Communicating Ideas (CWCI) offers individual consultations, peer review groups, dedicated writing space, and workshops to provide PhD students with the means to enhance the clarity and depth of their communication.
Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning supports Harvard's teaching community.
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