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- 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
- 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
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
efforts to refine search capabilities. With that in mind, panel moderator Thomas R. Eisenmann, associate professor of Entrepreneurial Management at HBS, noted that the next wave in search tools is going beyond material on the World Wide... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
of data management and analytics also led HBS to introduce Data Science for Managers, a new Required Curriculum elective for first-year MBA students. Then in their second year,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 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
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Supply Chain Analytics - Course Catalog
leadership. Supply Chain Analytics also builds on aspects of the first-year Data Science for Managers (RC DSM) course. However, whereas RC DSM focuses primarily on mechanics and applications of particular... 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
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
and Operations Management Unit at HBS. "The longer we take to figure this out, the more likely we're going to have a few of the best firms pulling way ahead based on this competitive advantage." More Likely To Go Radical In her research,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 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
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
What's next for Web services? In his case summary "Will Web Services Really Transform Collaboration?" published in the Winter 2005 edition of MIT Sloan Management Review, HBS associate professor Andrew P. McAfee argues that the... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
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IT Strategy: IT Modernization Drives Academic Library Innovation | Information Technology
evolve Baker Library technology and processes to support its objective of being at the vanguard of academic library innovation, linked data experimentation, semantic data modeling, and digital product... 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 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass exit into retirement. The new book Critical Knowledge Transfer:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
1960, electronic data processing as well as information storage and retrieval had made a lasting impression in both the private and the public sectors, and discoveries and improvements in areas such as circuit design and solid-state... View Details
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Research at HBS | Information Technology
of completion of their organization's training regarding requirements and guidance covering standard data management practices and sponsored data. If no such training is available at their organization,... 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
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
initiatives. Recently, McGinn has taken a nuanced look at evidence that women in professional service organizations are more likely to be promoted when the firm's leadership includes significant numbers of women. Her analysis of five years of personnel View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations," it wasn't that long ago that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Feb 2021
- News