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- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
approach to the customer experience, with an emphasis on employee training and improved ecommerce and automation technology, both on the floor and in back office roles. One foundational move to beef up its technology was Walmart’s $3.3 billion acquisition of View Details
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Profiles - MBA
intersection of technology and business Last summer, I worked for a startup that developed machine learning models for health insurance companies and for online pricing. I was inspired by how they were able to dramatically impact... View Details
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
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HBS - Key Metrics
Multi-Race / Non-Hispanic 2% 2% 1% — — Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander <1% 0% 0% — — White 53% 43% 22% — — Prefer not to answer 4% 0% — — — Did Not Report / Unknown 10% 26% 64% — — HBS Online 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Enrollment... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
Business Review For years, online experimentation has fueled the innovations of leading tech companies, enabling them to rapidly test and refine new ideas, optimize product features, personalize user experiences, and maintain a... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
To ease congested lines at airports, for example, TSA workers answer questions online about items that can or can’t be carried aboard planes—a bit of helpful pre-planning communication many flyers appreciate. When companies do screw up,... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
gain drawing from a qualitative study of 90 U.S.-based employees of a Japanese organization following a company-wide English language mandate. These native English-speaking employees believed that the mandate elevated their worth in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006
the following century. Firms employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10
By: Coates, John C., Jesse M. Fried, and Kathryn E. Spier Abstract—We report the results of an online survey, conducted on behalf of Harvard Law School, of 124 practicing attorneys at major law firms. The survey had two main objectives:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2023
- News
Seeding Startups
invaluable resource. He received advice from more experienced founders, and angel investors affiliated with the nonprofit were among the backers of his startups; Nadkarni followed up TeamOn with Livemocha, a pioneer in the social-language... View Details
Keywords: April White
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HBR Classics - Alumni
visit our help page .) For free online access to the most recent issues of the Harvard Business Review, register with your HBS email address by following the procedures outlined here . For information on... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7
http://hbr.org/product/Google-Inc--in-2014/an/915004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-520 Investing in Online Marketplaces Simon Rothman had recently been promoted from executive-in-residence to partner at esteemed venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
developing countries. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708030 Opening Pandora's Box Harvard Business School Case 607-135 Pandora.com provided a highly customizable online radio service... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
will lead to an integrated life. In 2008, as the financial crash worsened, Sally Krawcheck was fired at Citibank for urging the firm to repay customers for defective investments. She stuck to her values and now leads her own online... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
peers. Across three online experiments and a field experiment of entrepreneurs, we identify an interpersonal strategy that can mitigate feelings of malicious envy in observers: revealing one’s failures. Despite a general reluctance to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
and alumni engagement, along other topics, and also ran a design thinking workshop focused on reimagining reunions. On behalf of the current members of the board, in their role as ambassadors to the HBS alumni community, what follows are... View Details
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
these were... A Tiger in The Tank: Exxon Sues Investors By: Clayton S. Rose, Sarah Sasso and James Weber January 2025 | Faculty Research In June 2024, investors were trying to make sense of ExxonMobil’s (Exxon) lawsuit against two impact investors, Arjuna Capital... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55179 When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We examine gender differences in misconduct punishment in the financial advisory industry. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Data - Advancing Racial Equity
of 2023 & 2024 to ~1000 each. The Department of the Interior via the Office of Civil Rights provides federal guidelines for maintaining, collecting, and presenting data on race and ethnicity. HBS is required to follow these standards... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
period following graduation. The cumulative amount of post-graduation career exploration funds that an HBS graduate may receive in their lifetime from all HBS and Harvard University sources is capped at $150,000 USD. In each year that a... View Details