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- 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
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
someone who thinks a high percentage of managers steal from their companies is more likely to do so himself—and you ask the same question in a variety of ways. The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab also collects a second level of View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
increasingly using ML to manage many aspects of their business operations. “There’s been an explosion,” Teodorescu says. “It’s becoming less of a field in itself and more and more of a tool for people in other fields to use.” In a new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
What Is Harvard’s Impact in the World?
who have founded firms and social enterprises. With the support of Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, HBS professor Josh Lerner will survey the entire active alumni community for whom the University has email contact information. The Harvard Impact Study will augment... View Details
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Elliot Tobin
football.” After earning his bachelor’s degree in economics, management from MIT and a master’s in applied economics and data science from Boston College, the Minnesota transplant is currently balancing his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
help us manage climate change.” There are possibilities in genomics, she says, where data is expanding beyond our capacity to grasp it. There’s potential in health care, helping to eliminate simple things... 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
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
some would claim geometrically) expanding universe of information of varying quality will become counterproductive? For years, managers have lamented the fact that they have too much data and too little... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
of product management for search and data at AT&T Interactive, then joined Elsevier, where he is using search to make the world a better place. “I am driven by a passion to understand the needs of people and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Business Press) Professors Khanna and Palepu argue that the main exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectualproperty adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
future roles, responsibilities, and objectives may foster confusion and misalignment between management and employees and, in some cases, may even breed competition for resources within the firm,” the team writes. Sadun and her colleagues... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
deep statistical analysis, just good data and reporting approaches. It is often encountered in online businesses, where customer clickstreams provide plenty of data-often too much-for analysis. One expert practitioner of the CSI story... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent. Her role is... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
whatever reason, when God created the world, he made data only available about the past. As teachers at HBS, we’re trained to nail students to the wall if they ever make an assertion in class discussion that is not backed up with View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors treating the woman. Watson had already ingested millions of oncology papers and volumes of leukemia data from research institutes around the world. Now, the doctors in Tokyo fed Watson the woman’s genetic information, hoping it... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
pace of technological change, the emergence of a gig economy, and shifting global and labor markets. As faculty co-chairs of the Managing the Future of Work project, William Kerr and Joseph Fuller are leading efforts to prepare leaders... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
new study of physician offices transitioning to electronic health records (EHRs) used in managing patient care. In general, larger offices in the study that employed EHRs recorded productivity gains, but certain types of smaller practices... View Details