IQSS (Institute for Quantitative Social Science) is a university-wide institute located physically within Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. We are an unusual hybrid organization, both a research center and also an integral part of the Harvard administration. We direct large, interdisciplinary research projects ourselves; build infrastructure that facilitates the research of students, faculty and others; house research groups and technology centers; and administer professional staff and IT tools that increase the productivity of many others around the university. We also combine the roles, most obviously when we take routine activities of the administration, turn them into research projects, automate their tasks, and greatly extend the reach, efficiency, creativity, and productivity of the effort. We specialize in infrastructure that scales.