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01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

department at a Woolworth store back when they had manual cash registers. Candy bars used to sell really quickly, and the department needed constant restocking. During lunch, hundreds of customers would come in to buy snacks, and the lines grew long, so I needed to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

in the business-to-business space.” Indeed, the kinds of innovation possible in the B2B world seem limitless. By placing sensors on machinery and connecting them to the internet, companies can capture real-time data on their assets and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

female, women make up only 38 percent of middle management jobs, 22 percent of C-suite seats, and a grim 5 percent of CEO positions, according to 2019 data from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details

02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

PublicationsManaging the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:Health Affairs 29, no. 5 (May 2010) Abstract Developing new models of primary care will demand a level of managerial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

the heart of his long-run success” Ferguson's career indeed is an impressive feat. Look around for leading executives in any industry who have managed to succeed with the same firm at the highest levels for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

created the world, he made data only available about the past. As teachers at HBS, we're trained to nail students to the wall if they ever make an assertion in class discussion that is not backed up with View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors:Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

attractive to businesses, especially to e-commerce firms that thrive on global and scalable business models. Yet, most global e-commerce players, with a few exceptions, have failed to achieve significant success in Asia. This article... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

the world's foremost commercializer of products of new technologies in consumer electronics including the Walkman, Triton Color TV, the VCR, the CD (and CD-ROM), and the DVD. Matsushita became the industry's most successful firm in... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

why it might be taking so long. Researching Drugs Versus Devices She started with three decades of data from FDA databases on the approvals of all new drugs and high-risk medical devices between 1977 and 2007, measuring how long those... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Activities and Societies: Leave blank For the program description on LinkedIn, please use the following: Business Analytics is an 8-week, 40-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. Business Analytics introduces quantitative methods used to analyze... View Details

August 2023
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Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek

Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

tuition and fee revenue from the MBA program decreased 17 percent to $113 million from $136 million in fiscal 2020, as a number of students chose to take advantage of the School's deferral and leave policies during the pandemic. To put the View Details

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

relative importance of public agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and different types of private firms in developing precision medicines. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53560... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

dynamically. The book also presents the concept of “phronesis,” a kind of practical wisdom that benefits not only the organization, but also society at large. From ancient Greek, “phronesis is translated as practical knowledge, so it’s a higher View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

data for 1988 through 1996. It includes ratings before and after an analyst's transfer from one investment bank to another as well as the results of extensive interviews over several years of study. Among other things, they found that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Electricity - Business & Environment

especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: hurricanes, wildfires, and sea level rise pose immense risks for the reliable delivery of electricity. As one example, restoring electric power in Puerto Rico following Hurricane... View Details

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

be that they should weigh carefully the costs of breaking trust and of risking reputation. The formal study of behavioral economics exactly relates psychological factors to economic behavior, and even more recently has been exploring the market-level implications of... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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