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- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
that the company survived the "license raj" era through a commitment to legitimacy and strong family values. "You could expand, but a lot of things were required, bribes, and we would never give a bribe, so...
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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
to go into things undaunted with a greater focus on opportunities rather than challenges. In terms of my own vision, I believe our country needs community colleges to deliver. Our students need us to create...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational...
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All Industries
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
didn’t know much about HBS at that point. But when I heard about the option to actually do a combined degree, I started thinking that might be a really interesting thing to do. “I’m interested in revamping how we deliver health care. I...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
levity given the seriousness of the topic at hand. Some of the schools represented had already implemented major MBA program reforms. Others were considering them. But everyone had one View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
What stories were readers like you diving into this summer on HBS Working Knowledge? Your interests varied dramatically, everything from how researchers use machine learning technology to predict CEO performance to the power of rituals in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients (TN)
By: Sunil Gupta and Jason Riis
Teaching Note for 511093.
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- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Welcome to the second episode of our Skydeck mini-series “Out of...
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NTT DoCoMo: The Future of the Wireless Internet?
Bradley, Stephen P. "NTT DoCoMo: The Future of the Wireless Internet?" Journal of Interactive Marketing 16, no. 2 (Spring 2002).
- 05 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Leverage the Power of Alumni Networks in Recruiting
stood out – the power of the HBS alumni network. Although we talk about it all the time, it is another thing to see it come to life right before your very eyes. During our alumni event, we witnessed alumni...
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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an...
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- 10 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship
model, our hypotheses, and our assumptions. 5. Be patient really patient. One of the most difficult lessons we learned was that things take a very long time to develop and transpire. Whether it’s designing...
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Entrepreneurship
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
paid when deals are done, and the fever pitch of auctions. And guarding against these pathologies is a critical role for senior management. Gerdeman: What are the most important things you think people...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications...
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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
this a scam?' For us, the most important thing we've done is build trust with the community," said James DeJulio, co-founder and chief product officer of Tongal. "Our marketing strategy was to pay people as...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- July–August 2024
- Article
Navigating the Future of Online Advertising with WEB3
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Ben Plomion
or years, digital ad spend was a steadily growing portion of marketing budgets. But online advertising faces challenges that mean a transformative shift in digital marketing. Meanwhile, so-called “Web3” has emerged as a medium that can change ad spend and how personal...
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Cespedes, Frank V., and Ben Plomion. "Navigating the Future of Online Advertising with WEB3." European Business Review (July–August 2024).
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
are exactly the same between dating and business. SUGGESTED RESOURCES Greenwald’s “13 Conversation Behaviors To Avoid” 100 Virtual Icebreakers SUGGESTED RESOURCES Greenwald’s “13 Conversation Behaviors To Avoid” 100 Virtual Icebreakers April: View Details
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Zoom
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
Summer has always been a time to take a breath and slow down. Now that the United States is entering a post-pandemic phase, we have yet another reason to take things a bit slower and stop obsessing about efficiency and speed. One View Details
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by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
both the firm and their own energy. Richard Tedlow will present his observations of "why bad things happen to good companies," focusing on the 1982 and 1986 Tylenol crises. Michael Porter will...
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Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers
By: Ron Berman and Ayelet Israeli
Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more than 1,500 e-commerce websites, and we find an...
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Descriptive Analytics;
Big Data;
Synthetic Control;
E-commerce;
Online Retail;
Difference-in-differences;
Martech;
Internet and the Web;
Analytics and Data Science;
Performance;
Retail Industry
Berman, Ron, and Ayelet Israeli. "The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-067, November 2020. (Revised December 2021. Accepted at Marketing Science.)