Services for Doctoral Students

HBS holds an extensive art collection, including paintings, photographs, prints and sculpture. Tours are available to the HBS community. 

Baker Research Services provides HBS faculty, doctoral students, and RAs with research assistance, specializing in data retrieval and analysis.

Baker Library can help you negotiate favorable contract and license terms, reach deals for best possible pricing, and identify cost-share partners both within HBS and at other schools within Harvard University.

Do you want to schedule a research consultation with a Baker librarian? Find out more about how we can help.

We can meet with you to review your methodology and recommend ways to design your collection and organization of data to support your research.

Baker Library's deep expertise with the licensed and publically available databases, as well as print collections, enables us to efficiently and effectively download, scrape, merge, and clean data from disparate sources

Baker Library can help you in the early stages of a research project to test your concepts and streamline your research process or computer programs.

For data that is to be distributed, reproduced, or scraped, we offer services for evaluating terms of use for websites and datasets, obtaining permissions for copyrighted datasets that are openly accessible, and identifying the proper person for the researcher to contact for permissions and questions about data.

Tours of the current exhibit on display in the lobby of Baker Library | Bloomberg Center.

Fast Answers is a set of FAQ's that direct researchers to the best tools and search strategies to answer specific business research questions.

Harvard Library tools and services that facilitate the access & delivery of books and articles from Harvard libraries and interlibrary loan (borrowing from other libraries).

HBS MBA, doctoral and cross-registered students can request cases and background notes written by HBS faculty via the Baker Library Case Request Service. The request process is fast and easy; most cases arrive in your inbox within 1 working day.

Deposit your research data and documentation into HBS Dataverse, our secure online repository.

Staffed by a small team of experienced journalists, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge publishes accessible feature articles about faculty research (and practice) for an audience of business practitioners.  We also publish brief summaries of every working paper published through HBS. Our goal: to explain the practical relevance of economic research to a non-academic audience. 

Baker Library provides hands on assistance to our researchers. 

Learn how different teams across Baker Library provide research services to support faculty, students and visiting researchers.

HBS is committed to preserving the intellectual thought of the School.  Research data, including data sets and the associated research files, are a vital component of this record. Baker Library can provide easy access to your data and related materials and ensure that they are preserved in a secure repository.

Information on fellowships that include support for research at Baker Library.

Would you like to use something that isn’t already in the Harvard Library collection? Let us know and we will consider purchasing it for Baker Library.  Either way, we will get back to you.

Baker Library provides workshops, presentations and information sessions for faculty, students and alumni; as well as directly to students in the classroom. Learn more about our presentations, including how to schedule one for your course or club.