Research Community

Research Community

Research Resources

Research Resources

 

Our research and teaching resources are unmatched.

 

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.

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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 and Data 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 Behavioral Lab (BeLab) 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).

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Harvard University Libraries

HBS Doctoral students have access to the more than 90 libraries that form the Harvard University libraries system.

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 Academic Resource Center (ARC) provides a range of support services including academic coaching, accountability sessions, peer tutoring, English language conversation partners, and workshops.

Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning supports Harvard's teaching community.

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