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Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it 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... View Details

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25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

a quest for competitive advantage? Will analytics, as well as the supply of analytics-savvy managers, so badly lag "big data" that it will only lead to confusion and misguided decisions? Or is this just the latest management fad? How, if at all, should this affect... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

01 Dec 2011
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Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

proponents of such ideas have been advisers to both David Cameron in the U.K. (Richard Thaler) and Barack Obama in the US (Cass Sunstein). Behavioral economists advise regulators that, when in doubt, make sure that business is transparent and even View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

retention in this Q&A. Making the Move to General Manager Managers face a critical transition when they rise from functional expert to general manager. It's an exciting shift but it's also fraught with pitfalls. A new executive View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2004
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Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

benefits intended to address work-life issues. There are advocates of a cafeteria approach to the matter, one in which individuals can select benefits such as time off, working hours, educational benefits, or even selected assignments... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Sep 2002
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What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

years from now. But is it unreasonable to expect continued efforts to improve the quality of the process with regard to personal values? Or should a greater effort be made to identify the "bad apples" after they are admitted and sort them out as part of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

clients, most of whom had low skill and education levels. Marketing at first was fairly simple, said artisan baker David Ekstrom, a panelist at the session who joined the bakery a year ago as full-time manager. "They got the word out... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

ZMET in addition to digital imaging, for corporate clients as well as MBA and Executive Education students. He's also involved in Harvard's interdisciplinary initiative Mind/Brain/Behavior, and studies neuroimaging techniques as applied... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

book, Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, coauthored with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education programs, McFarlan has been a... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

competencies of each partner and create two-way value is evidenced by, among others, the collaboration between The College Fund (UNCF) and Merck. UNCF, the largest and oldest minority educational assistance organization in the United... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

for everyone and also highlighted the important link between research, discovery, and cure." The GPP is a statewide prevention program aimed at reducing the use of dangerous drugs among teens and young adults through awareness campaigns, View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

02 Jun 2003
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What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

undergraduate or graduate level of education for leadership, such efforts should strive to provide a context in which individuals can draw their own conclusions regarding such topics of vital importance for future leaders. Further,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 % respectively. Homophily in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

A Choice Prediction Competition for Market Entry Games: An Introduction

By: Ido Erev, Eyal Ert and Alvin E. Roth

A choice prediction competition is organized that focuses on decisions from experience in market entry games (http://sites.google.com/site/gpredcomp/ and http://www.mdpi.com/si/games/predict-behavior/). The competition is based on two experiments: An estimation... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Learning; Market Entry and Exit; Game Theory; Behavior; Competition

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March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
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OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

It was December 10, 2020, and Ed Bastian, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Delta Air Lines (Delta), had just finished a meeting with Joanne Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, and Keyra Lynn Johnson, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.... View Details

Keywords: Recruitment; Training; Race; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Job Design and Levels; Air Transportation Industry; United States

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March 2016 (Revised May 2021)
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IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe

In early 2016, Stanley Litow, IBM's Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs and President of the IBM International Foundation, made his travel arrangements for still another flight from New York to discuss possibilities for application of a new... View Details

Keywords: IBM; P-TECH; Stanley Litow: Robin Willner; Cuomo; Scaling; Innovation; New York State; New York City; Business Model; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Growth and Development; Technology Industry; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)

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April 2019 (Revised January 2025)
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Clear Link Technologies, LLC: Driving Sales with Peer Effects

By: Christopher Stanton, Richard Saouma and Olivia Hull

The importance of a good peer or coworker is widely discussed, but understanding the glue that makes coworkers valuable is less understood. This case sheds light on the importance of peers and the practices and environments that make a group greater than the sum of its... View Details

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26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

end-users as the basis for high-speed, digital, interactive, multimedia services." The scenarios, said moderator Scott Bradner, senior technical consultant at Harvard, were not so much predictions as a means to evaluate the next generation of technologies and to advise... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

prominent philanthropists and members of government, launch Ensina!, seizing Brazil's unprecedented economic growth and national commitment to education. The new independent educational non-profit is to be part of Teach For All, a global... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne