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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
management in colleges and universities. What the Customer Wants You to Know: How Everybody Needs to Think Differently about Sales by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (Penguin Group) To upgrade the productivity of a company’s sales force, Charan View Details
Keywords: Management
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
whether Japan should take on competition-oriented policies, or the more traditional policies that protect the strong social traditions of Japanese big business. He recommended watching the reformation of the Japanese telecom monopoly,... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
likelihood that policyholders will suffer a breach, and that At-Bay will pay a large claim. The company even offers discounts to clients who adopt recommended security measures, just as car-insurance providers offer discounts for having... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
committee, established by then SEC chair Arthur Levitt, to formulate best practices with regard to stockbrokers' activities and compensation. These were not legislative remedies, they were recommendations for voluntary standards of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
these topics. Join, volunteer, intern, or work for an organization committed to racial justice. Check out the organizations listed above, or find local ones in your communities. White folks, I highly recommend joining SURJ (Showing Up for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
willing to pay more for the latter. Unfortunately, by purposefully ignoring real differences in what consumers were willing to pay for Black-owned rentals and basing its calculations on data from predominantly white-owned properties, the algorithm wound up View Details
- Web
Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization - Recruiting
educator, and activist artist. Her art and educational workshops challenge and encourage people to have meaningful conversations about social justice. She has partnered with many offices throughout Harvard Business School and here offers her expertise, insights, and... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55668 2019 Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Multivariate Unsupervised Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Enterprise Applications By: Elsner,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
thousand large retailers, primarily in the U.S. and Europe. It basically does the supply-chain job faster and more accurately with the aid of a sophisticated information system than anyone else. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
important. We recommend that the IT governance group be made up of independent directors, as is the case with audit and compensation committees. Chairmanship is also critical. For firms in support, factory, or turnaround modes, the... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
various leaders and staff members to unpack the systemic barriers to their growth and create an actionable framework to support their expansion in the low-income and mixed affordable housing space. Learning about racial injustice in a... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
appropriate. That's one pole of the continuum. At the other pole, you have people who really believe there's something extremely wrong with the barrel. Thus it's not just a matter of a few bad apples; what we really need is a wholesale revamping of the View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
its traditional slow-paced and bureaucratic system of R&D to emulate the relatively fast pace and entrepreneurial system of biotech companies." The firm created several specialized research teams to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
from Nebraska and former US Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services] and Don Berwick [former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and current Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate] said that our health care View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
leading the “high-touch” approach you’ve taken with your clients will be difficult from New Jersey. I recommend expanding with your clients—get contracts with them to service their new locations out of state. Be a partner with them going... View Details
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
first year, the business began to jell. The work was daunting because it was off-line and Hicks had to manually keep and update all the lists of recommended contractors, current members and prospective members by hand. Yet membership grew... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
malfunction. As the cameras monitor and collect data used to make recommendations about which roses to cut, they need to function properly to optimize production. While challenges persist, the brothers continue to test lighting options... View Details
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Demo Day | New Venture Competition
exposure to early-stage angels and investors. If you decide to participate in Demo Day, you are required to work with a faculty member to prepare. This includes a mandatory coaching session with faculty to get feedback on your proposal and pitch. Pitch Format 3-minute... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details