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23 May 2019
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Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966

computerize financial data and provide investment professionals with real-time market information and analysis. The computer terminal he and his partners created, which became known as the Bloomberg Terminal, transformed the buying and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

Customers were disappointed with the food and the overall experience. But the data also showed that McDonald’s wasn’t losing to the fast-casuals like Chipotle and Panera—the bulk of those losses, Kempczinski says, were to “close-in”... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

embracing diversity as an asset. The immediate priorities—partisan gerrymandering, voter participation, and campaign finances—took shape out of Leadership Now’s own data analysis and build on research from across Harvard, such as HBS... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

build a community of engaged partners who share a common passion and are eager to provide the resources needed to change the world—not just money, but also time, talents, personal networks, creative thinking, and public support. A... View Details

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize data makes me more... View Details

13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

don't share the same perspectives on everything, but we found a lot of common ground through listening and sharing a common goal of making things better for the next generation." What are your full-times... View Details

12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift

thought the client wanted and needed. Her case was strong, the data sound. But the executives didn’t bite. “I just remember presenting this incredible data that spoke directly to the very thing they hired me... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

capital.” At the same time, conversations with other practitioners and classmates helped Salas envision a roadmap for how Camino Financial could better leverage data science as it continues to grow. McKenney came to the Business of AI SIP... View Details

Keywords: April White

17 Oct 2019
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Venturing Away from Venture Capital

startup financing. To be sure, venture capital offers many benefits, including the networks and insights that experienced investors bring to the table. But all of that comes at a price. Most obviously, a founder who takes venture capital gives up equity, effectively... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose

Professor George Serafeim (left) and Professor Rebecca Henderson (right); image by John Ritter CEOs are increasingly being asked to take the lead on some of the most vexing problems of our time, from climate change and data privacy to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

share to around $1 a share in two years. With the company’s survival in question, Houghton was called back as CEO in 2002. This time, leadership required lifting spirits, not dropping the hammer. He exhorted... View Details

07 Aug 2019
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“The Star of the North”

business.” Building with Baker To work its way into the Granite Equity portfolio, a Minnesota business needs more than location in its favor. As Bauerly puts it, they must also share Granite Equity’s wellness culture, family-business... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

“Many stocks considered ‘growth’ stocks share this same feature. But meme stocks layer onto this a very specific way that the gap develops, through a frenzy of usually social media–driven fervor.” “These stocks are likely to fall in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told

False Claims Act, which rewards whistleblowers who report fraud against the federal government with a percentage of the money recovered. “We need to understand the costs,” explains Heese, “and how to empower the people who have important information to View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest challenge can be resolving “gray area” problems, situations where analysis of the facts and data fails to... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes

industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter repeats that “relative View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2020
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Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

second piece of data from a 2017 edition of Journal of Democracy is that when you ask people if democracy is essential, of those who grew up or fought during the Second World War, nearly 75 percent of them say democracy is absolutely... View Details

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of bringing a value-added product to consumers, Baker says of the marketing of the White Russet. The fresh market would place the most value on its science-enhanced... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

doctors treating the woman. Watson had already ingested millions of oncology papers and volumes of leukemia data from research institutes around the world. Now, the doctors in Tokyo fed Watson the woman’s genetic information, hoping it... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Jun 1999
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New Releases

together a stellar record of performance while 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... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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