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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
scuptures on loan to the School’s ongoing contemporary sculpture exhibition. The piece was inspired in part by an essay by Henry David Thoreau, who graduated from Harvard 180 summers ago. HBS will partner with Harvard’s SEAS and Department of Statistics to offer the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
underestimate the work in front of you. It’s probably a good thing, otherwise you’d never do it.” Entrepreneurs, he concludes, “are almost by definition optimists. If you took a cold, analytical look at what you are doing — the risk... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
that, and I liked that. I liked a sort of analytical approach to multi-person decision problems. So I was following Howard and we were doing what one would call individual decision theory. But my whole later career was an attempt to try... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
performance. The process helps these organizations measure the volume of services they deliver, determine customer satisfaction, apply special analytic techniques to evaluate performance, and keep the public abreast of the results.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
partner level,” he said. “They are brilliant, work 100 hours a week and are intensely competitive.” When considering in which startups to invest capital, Breyer said if the company does not include an artificial intelligence data analysis component he will not consider... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
Collaboration Leads to New Programs for Business and Education Two new programs developed and led by HBS faculty in collaboration with colleagues from across Harvard University—one in business analytics and another in school... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
You Outsource Your Marketing? Few companies own all the marketing expertise they need, especially of the left-brain, analytic variety. Professor of Management Practice Gail McGovern outlines the pros and cons of turning over your... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO
tackle any process in any organization.” The article frames Malcolm Beck’s professional journey not as an accumulation of diverse skills, but as a focus on a few unique ones. [S]he didn’t become chief executive by getting loads of experience across functions. Rather,... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
its “industrial Internet,” an open global network of machines, data, and people that provides analytics and designs solutions to optimize its customers’ complex operations. “The paradigm is not displacement and replacement,” says Iansiti,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re not a consumer brand. We’re a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
given to their competitors. Using analytical software that evaluates visual similarities between designs, Gross compared each submission with prior entries by the same designer, and related the similarity to the number and quality of... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space using data analytics and sharing... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
Mookerjee recently served as managing director of Capital One’s Asia business ventures, based in Bangalore, India. When that assignment ended in June 2004, he decided to remain with his family in India and subsequently launched an View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
technical and analytic skills to craft a 'well-prepared' provisional self," she writes. "By rehearsing these clumsy, often ineffective, sometimes inauthentic selves," Ibarra concludes, "junior managers learn more about the limitations and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
Analytical Thinking. Students also get one-on-one advice from senior faculty who help them customize a plan of study. Customization is a cornerstone of the new program, which permits students to tailor their course work to an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
MBA students, the program provides up to 20 fellows a year with the opportunity to work in nonprofit or public sector positions, giving those organizations access to an MBA’s managerial and analytical skills to build capacity. Return to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
he seeks counsel from a panel of advisers, resulting in a wealth of teaching moments. Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right by Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville (Harvard Business Review Press) Despite increasing reliance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
platform, Lakhani developed the NASA Tournament Lab to create contests that improve computer codes and data analytics solutions. With Harvard Medical School researchers, he designed a competition to break data bottlenecks and speed up DNA... View Details