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- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
handle human tasks—allows companies to use multiple variables to compute the best targets for employees, often in real time. Many companies have started using machine-learning algorithms to construct AI systems. Such algorithms can take two forms: Supervised learning.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
involving about 5,000 people, the researchers found that listeners tend to perceive speakers who use politically incorrect labels for various groups of people as more authentic. But listeners also saw them as colder. The researchers’... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
they named WHAM, short for “Work from Home Algorithmic Measure.” Three people labeled 10,000 chunks of text to help WHAM analyze whether job posting text included language indicating the role would involve remote work. They then “trained”... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
City in the late 1970s. At the time, there was no shortage of upstart brands competing for the dollars of young, health-conscious New Yorkers, but Snapple stood out from the rest by virtue of an endearing artlessness. The labels on its... View Details
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
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On Campus Logistics - Recruiting
company, complete a shipping label and email our office to request a pickup. Please note we discourage company gifts or “swag.” Address: Harvard Business School c/o Operational Support Services Arthur Rock Center 10 Soldiers Field Road... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
ecosystem. It charges users only a moderate fee to coordinate their trading activities. Incentives such as the PowerSeller label reinforce standards for sellers that benefit the entire ecosystem. These performance standards also delegate... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 10 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Combining an Interest in Music and Business
passionate about. I applied to non-profits, startups, social innovators, arts foundations, theatre producers, music labels, entertainment conglomerates, among others. I am now halfway through my internship in one of the biggest music View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
change—business leaders have entered a new era requiring new ways of leading. Traditional management methods seem no longer sufficient to address the volume of change we are seeing. I label this VUCA 2.0. In a 1998 report designed to... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 02 May 2025
- Blog Post
How to Work with Search Firms
am." This kind of reciprocity can lead to being labeled a “Friend of the Firm.” When your name comes up in a database search, you’ll get a first look. Build Relationships Through Recommendations The best way to get on a recruiter’s radar... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
objected to invoking the Sherman Act argue that such actions hurt competition and restrict free markets. Ironically, those advocating the use of the Sherman Act, even though they are sometimes labeled “socialists” by their opponents,... View Details
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- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
already wide-ranging assortment of unique items. Nordstrom's private label has always been a respected part of its offer." Town Square Johnson's vision is to make the shopping experience as easy and enjoyable as buying a smartphone at an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
“I had followed his career and thought a lot of what he had accomplished,” Ferguson says of Combs, who at that time was already sitting atop a phenomenally successful record label with platinum-selling artists such as the late Notorious... View Details
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
DVD under Jane Fonda's "Team Fonda" fitness brand. In addition, she and Chopra collaborated on the iPad app Authentic Yoga. Those actions spurred some instructors to label her a sellout, but Deshpandé is more measured.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
pipeline and put a Japanese label on it," the local managers said, "Wait a minute. We've got very demanding customers here. We've got incredibly tough competitors here. That creates a fabulous environment that's going to drive... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
gave each one a name. Those who used positive language and a range of facial expressions, for example, were deemed Excitable. Those who showed anger, contempt, and disgust but also a fair amount of neutral expressions were labeled Stern.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
very active in boosting the idea. We couldn’t have picked a better time to launch.” After more than a year of studying production practices and cross-country travels to acquire state-of-the-art equipment, the Turners began producing syrup under the Crown Maple View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
be concerned with producing elites who are motivated by something beyond the pursuit of self-interest under the laws of the marketplace, or the fear of punishment under the laws of the land? A self-interested, self-indulgent corporate leadership is not inevitable, and... View Details