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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
key problem for organization design will be the management of distributed innovation in such dynamic ecosystems. Specifically, how should diverse entities be integrated into a coherent network that generates goods in the present and new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
you talk about how this work comes together in your new elective? There is a dual focus to the course: managing one's individual talents, and managing gender diversity in the workplace. In addition to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called Microsoft, Cash was closing in on his... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
On the Horns of an Investment Dilemma Financial management firms that focus on sustainable investing have been gaining ground for twenty years now. As an example, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a global association of nearly... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
first intranet for a Fortune 50 company. “That was my first exposure to the way innovative data management can transform a big organization,” she notes. “When I went on to HBS, that seed had definitely been... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman
August. The search for a new chairman was prompted in mid-2017 after activist investing firm Elliott Management bought a 9 percent share of the company. That move also triggered about $100 million in cost-cutting changes, including 400... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
practices—which Fuller defines as employers’ tendency to raise the degree requirements for job applications. More than 60 percent of companies in the study’s survey admitted to using college degrees as a baseline for hiring, both to reduce application pools to a View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
Sciences (SEAS), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences debuted the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP), an online certificate offering for executives focused on quantitative analysis and data science. A few months later, the first... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
fraud? What kinds of internal control levers, employee training programs, or perhaps even internal (nonfinancial) rewards and recognitions lead to a greater number of internal whistleblower reports? Subject to data availability, we would... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
AMABILE: A decade of research shows that to be creative, people need to feel good about their work. After thirty years of research, I am still passionate about creativity,” says Teresa M. Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, head of the... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
business schools developed at best a love-hate relationship with the rankings. Those that moved up from obscurity tended to like them. Perennial leaders like HBS and Wharton regarded them as meaningless “beauty contests” and stopped cooperating with the various... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
data?'" That's Paul Nicholas' reaction after reading most of the responses to this month's column. It's not a bad "sense of the meeting," in which many contributors offered suggestions to managers wishing to get the most out of so-called... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
they're really disassociated from the brain and the brain's neuroanatomy. They are very focused on what is really decades old algorithms that they have advanced and applied data and applied technology to solve some very big problems. But,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Chances Are
Years ago, while Amram Shapiro (MBA 1978) and a team of researchers were busy creating the probability database at the heart of his new compendium, The Book of Odds, the daughter of a friend sat in on one of their weekly data reviews. A... View Details