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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
Why They Buy The first big puzzle Professor Clay Christensen tackled when he joined the HBS faculty in 1992 was an elemental one: Why was success so hard for businesses to sustain? The search led to his theory of disruptive innovation,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
part, Serafeim studies how companies should respond to big problems—such as corruption or climate change—in order to sustain their competitiveness and how investors should integrate nonfinancial (environmental, social, and governance)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting and pricing strategies, and extract maximum value from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
the big picture really quickly, whereas it takes me longer. I think celebrities don’t always experience pushback, but I give that, which she respects, and she does it with me. What happens when you disagree about an investment’s... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
an effective biomarker—a kind of test that could measure the progression of ALS over a short period of time—did not yet exist. Without it, drug trials relied on longer, more costly observations of disease progression. Next, collaboration and sharing of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and control, to design thinking and innovative problem solving, to data science and machine learning. And I know I could not have... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
itself. Already the country registers 400,000 more deaths than births every year. Most of those deaths—about 80 percent, according to data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare—take place in hospitals, exerting tremendous... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
will play a much better game. It’s no different with entrepreneurship.” A second breakthrough was establishing that entrepreneurial activity is not limited to start-ups but can take place in existing organizations, old or young, big or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
produced over the same period. The latest data from the US Energy Information Administration and the International Renewable Energy Agency indicate that the levelized costs of wind and solar energy already meet, or beat, that of new oil... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
government and individual donors may have different priorities and demands, and soon a nonprofit trying to please too many (including the general public) pleases no one—least of all those constituents they were hoping to help. "Accountability and impact are the two... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
stories of playing shell games with credit cards, using one to pay off another when the money wasn’t coming in. Where successful entrepreneurs were able to execute, though, it seemed to include a combination of two things: first, balancing confidence in their View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
collective expertise of generations of Wisconsin cheese makers and dairy farmers in the burgeoning US market for ethnic cheeses. “Ethnic cheese wasn’t huge in Wisconsin when we launched the Specialty Cheese Company,” he notes, “but you really didn’t have to look much... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
wrong. They discover that intuition, experience, and big data alone don't work. What does? Running disciplined business experiments. And what if companies roll out new products or introduce new customer... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
relationships; OkCupid, founded in 2004, which popularized the idea that data could solve the dating dilemma; and niche sites from JDate and ChristianMingle to FarmersOnly. The number and diversity of the sites helped reduce the stigma... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
awareness to the needs of these families. To date, the foundation has provided $33 million in support to 1,600 students. Kim wants to reach all students, but concedes they can be difficult to find. “The government tracks some of that data... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
calculation also comes into play. Ferguson faulted widely used mathematical risk models for failure to build in historical data reaching back more than five years. “The problem with only five years of data... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
“Contact tracing is a 500-year-old solution. It was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers