RCS staff include experts in advanced statistical methods, along with data science methodologies that can support faculty research, including text digitization, fuzzy matching, and natural language processing. RCS team member bios provide additional information about their backgrounds and areas of expertise.

RCS provides consulting services and assistance for HBS faculty research, along with guidance for RAs, doctoral students, faculty support specialists, and other collaborators supporting faculty research. Initial consultations and short inquiries are provided at no cost for up to two to three hours per month. Consultations longer than two to three hours and project work for faculty are charged to faculty research budgets at a rate of $40/hour. Our areas of expertise include, but are not limited to:

HBS has university-wide licenses for most research software (e.g., Stata). Below is a list of the most popular packages provided to the research community for free.

If your desktop or laptop is overheating when trying to work with your data, taking days to run a program, or you find yourself running out of space to store your data, consider moving your data processing and storage to the HBS computer cluster (aka “the HBSGrid” or “the Grid”).

RCS team members have offered training on subjects ranging from Introduction to Python to Large Data in R.

Generally, an active appointment or enrollment with Harvard Business School, or sponsorship by someone with an active appointment, is required for access to RCS resources. All account holders, whether Harvard affiliates or outside collaborators, agree to be held accountable by the Harvard University Electronic Access and Information Security policies.