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- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
rapidly changing. Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl’s new research explores the business opportunities hidden among the stars, particularly in data from and through space, but also in tourism, manufacturing,...
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- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
mid-sized companies.” “Investing in those technologies would make portfolio companies better able to utilize the data they collect from customers and stakeholders, so they could make better business...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
building a network of mentors to support and advise them. To uncover the processes that promote the development and advancement of minority executives, Thomas and Gabarro embarked on a six-year study analyzing promotion data and then...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
major developments: Ericsson opened its first 5G-enabled smart factory in the United States, Apple unveiled its first 5G-enabled phone, and carriers like AT&T and Verizon have been preparing their customers for major transition. So has...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
services, or business initiatives in the chemicals, technology, and consumer products industries. Amabile is working on a book based on the data from the ten-year study, which includes questionnaires, interviews, independent creativity...
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- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
Business Administration at HBS. “But everything is rewritten to work in a Zambian context. The data to date shows that the training’s effects are very positive.” Drawing from her own experience teaching negotiation at HBS, as well as...
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Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
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Strategic Plan | Information Technology
2. Design Sustainable Technology Architecture 2.01: Baker Architecture Modernization Program 2.02: Cloud Program 2.03: Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Build for HBS IT 2.04: Data Architecture 2.05: Enterprise Architecture 2.06:...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
first present data suggesting that this belief has become a “hegemonic narrative”—a pervasive, status-quo-preserving story that is uncontested, even in the face of countervailing evidence. We then take a systems psychodynamic perspective...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
test-takers. We consider data from a large-scale, high-stakes policy change that removed penalties for wrong answers on the national college entry exam in Chile. We find that the policy change significantly reduced a large gender gap in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
the space agency in applying open innovation approaches to big data and computational challenges, and works with Harvard Catalyst, the University-wide initiative led by Harvard Medical School. What are some examples of different kinds of...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
top-down or laissez-faire management by the general manager; poor coordination across functions, businesses, or borders; lack of effective and honest vertical communication; and inadequate leadership skills and development throughout the organization. "It is clear from...
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Judith A. Ross
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
within your own ecosystem, you can become more proactive in harnessing their resources, such as data and infrastructure, for innovation and growth. In today’s digital age, it isn’t daunting to utilize resources from tech giants to fuel...
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- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
My grandmother in yellow, my aunts and uncles, and two of her many grandchildren. I’m a born and raised Detroit-native coming from a long line of incredible matriarchs. My grandmother, born in 1929 on a small rural farm in Arkansas, traveled to Detroit with four...
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- 03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
they will be as busy in the future as they are today increased the likelihood that customers would both open the email and click a link to purchase various services. In sum, making the future feel as busy as the present encourages...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
will be better information for better decisions. In some cases, better information comes from simply combining data that already exist in the firm but are spread across different parts of the company. Some metrics, such as View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
students' self-assessment and to the instructor's assessment of class participation performance, based on five years of data (n=7,025) across ten sections. The article demonstrates that crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment (unlike...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
traditionally earned their biggest margins when rooms were scarce and customers were forced to pay higher rates—such as in Midtown Manhattan on New Year's Eve. And it's good news for travelers who don't have to pay through the roof to get...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
education data company BrightBytes found that an estimated 30 percent of ed tech licenses that schools purchased were never used in the classroom, and nearly 98 percent weren’t used “intensely”—that is, students got less than 10 hours of...
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- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
“Corruption is a great untapped market,” Henry Motte-Munoz (MBA 2013) says with a laugh. “Not many competitors and customer interest is quite high.” It’s a market he’s helping to disrupt using Bantay, an NGO he cofounded while at HBS,...
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