Firm Level Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

enhance the emotional payoff of charitable initiatives. 2013 pub Learning by Supplying By: Alcácer, Juan, and Joanne Oxley Abstract—Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 Dec 2021
News

Truth Be Told

fraud? What kinds of internal control levers, employee training programs, or perhaps even internal (nonfinancial) rewards and recognitions lead to a greater number of internal whistleblower reports? Subject to data availability, we would... View Details

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

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

Download the paper: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/361/7/649 Cases & Course MaterialsAlacra, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 810-012 In 2009, the CEO of Alacra, a venture-backed information services firm that provides... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

the customers who use them); adapts to new data as they become available; and has been applied to over 850 businesses acquired and integrated in one Fortune 150 company, ITW, which has consistently produced superior results. The book goes... View Details

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

qualifications, technical skills, and networks required for the job. I thought to myself, “if students at Harvard Business School - one of the leading feeders for venture capital/private equity roles in the world - are facing this level... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

overlapping geographic layers—from local to global—and the idea is to focus not on one layer but on many. Doing so fosters flexibility by helping companies adapt ideas about regional strategies to different geographic levels of analysis.... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

especially with grocers, is that they use these cards to give discounts at the checkout. In the process of doing this, they have accumulated a lot of data. What they do with that data is anybody's guess. Other retailers, such as Talbots... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

Profile

Arum Kang

As an assistant buyer fresh out of college, Arum Kang felt ready to test her quantitative skills on the retail floors of Lord & Taylor in New York City. "I'm very analytical," Arum says. "Working with consumer data and... View Details

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

managers would have to explain to their investors why earning a negative 2 percent return would make sense as opposed to either investing or disgorging that cash to shareholders. The definition of "excess cash holdings" will be critical. But such View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

initiatives are fulfilling their desired objectives. By being able to more rigorously evaluate compliance programs with data and empirical analysis, prosecutors and courts will be able to more readily discern “window-dressing,” and View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jul 2014
Blog Post

Create a Content Marketing Strategy for your Talent Acquisitions Team

such as level of experience, job function preferences and desired organizational benefits. Create personas for each segment.Create personas that match each of your target audience segments. For example, Jessica is a recent MBA graduate... View Details

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

of development process for a project. But my past work (studying projects in high-tech industries) had convinced me that we were missing an important level of analysis. It seemed that decisions made in a project sometimes worked against... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

data science (2) get comfortable using Python and SQL for data analysis and (3) meet other HBSers interested in data science. Yuki Yaguchi (MBA 2021) : My goal over the summer... View Details

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

his research, few managers know how to channel innovative thinking into practice by making sense of the overwhelming amount of market, financial, and technical data now available and then sharing discoveries and strategies with other... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

01 Jun 2013
News

Collective Wisdom

the space agency in applying open innovation approaches to big data and computational challenges, and works with Harvard Catalyst, the University-wide initiative led by Harvard Medical School. What are some examples of different kinds of... View Details

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

corporations face when rewarding innovators within their labs. For instance, when Lilly Ventures was hit by its initial wave of defections, it benchmarked its compensation levels against those of independent firms. The conclusion was that... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

11 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

change has brought over the last two decades, it is that business is becoming fully engaged on the issue. Firms may not have the answers or even the will to make changes toward sustainable practices, but they can't do nothing.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

07 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree

want to, and having different levels of understanding is something that will be invaluable in my career. You took advantage of your time at Harvard to intern in both the consulting and venture capital fields. What did you learn from those... View Details

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