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- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
additional revenue streams and vertical growth capabilities? What about the cohort analysis and data generated from order histories? He motivated the management team to come up with new ideas to put the vast... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
hedge fund, an Amazon employee focused on retail data, and a forecaster at General Electric," says HBS David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration Marco Iansiti, who serves as faculty chair of the initiative and head of the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand shocks in counties with more generous benefits. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
outside individual projects. Institutionalizing postmortems on all projects, successful or not, is the only way of generating robust insights on how well an organizational change effort is proceeding. In organizational transformation... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
player in the development of the Valley. Working with Thomas J. Davis, Jr., in the firm Davis & Rock, as well as on his own (as Arthur Rock & Co.), Rock has backed many of the companies that make the Valley what it is today: Teledyne, Scientific View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
in 2013 and is currently working on driverless cars—could offer cities an even deeper data stream. “When you start incorporating data generated from cars directly, you’ll be... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
Hroe Large American companies are less racially integrated today than a generation ago—in fact, businesses have returned to the bleaker segregation levels of the 1970s, new research shows. This racial division among companies was a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2018
- Blog Post
Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together
tracks and attract more candidates to our campus.” In October, she hosted a joint HBS/MIT recruitment talk that attracted Czapski. “I really liked the types of projects they were working on,” says Czapski. “They have a huge database of real estate View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Profile
Eric Sonnier
generator sets in the field and collected feedback from engineers.” He did a number of site visits “and got my elbows dirty, but I wasn’t really passionate about it.” A subsequent internship with Xerox in Rochester, New York, through the... View Details
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From the Dean | Annual Report 2024
The Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) accelerated its efforts to bring research-driven insights about AI to business leaders, convening hundreds of alumni and other practitioners for a groundbreaking AI conference in Klarman Hall last... View Details
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Lucasz S. Babiarz
able to apply his MBA skills to the problem. "He analyzed department activities to see which brought in the most revenue," says Lukasz. "He emphasized those activities to increase profits, then applied the profits to support student research—such as... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
David Grabowski, and David Cutler Abstract— Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with start-ups such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, Netscape, Excite, and Sun Microsystems. Through the years, Doerr and his partners have invested more than $1.3 billion in 250 technology ventures in the United States, creating companies that have View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
Meanwhile, those who are outside the market generally don't even know what's going on. Q: Are you worried that regulation could stifle innovation in reproductive medicines? A: Actually, I'm more worried about regulation in the stem cell... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
on," says Harvard Business School marketing professor Gerald Zaltman. A more strategic approach to data mining can provide the foundation for that decision-making architecture. Below, advice on how to use information about the... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
effectiveness. A thorough understanding of gatekeepers and their roles can thus illuminate academics, the financial community and regulators on how such gatekeepers can be the most effective and generate the greatest benefits for capital... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
successful price discrimination, the valuations of consumers who have access to vouchers must generally be lower than those of consumers who do not have access to vouchers. Offering vouchers tends to be more profitable for firms that are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
for example, competing on low lifetime cost — and then try to fund the right mix of corporate initiatives to implement that strategy. They also design a Balanced Scorecard for their firm. In successive rounds of play, the data on each... View Details