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17 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Upcoming Interview? No Problem—Just Connect the Dots

skills, strategy experience, or any other requisite, you want to be able to spell out to the interviewer how the dots on your resume perfectly match the dots on their job posting. And if your dots don’t match their dots, then you’ll need to be able to explain how you... View Details

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

learned that its 20 percent interest rate was higher than average and that the card didn’t provide travel insurance. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/prRmhGSXiSbMwOabP4CL][/div] After qualified customers activated their credit cards,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

changing accruals, for example—the adverse impact on company value is probably small. But rarely is the activity so benign. Usually, the shuffling of dollars results from decisions that change the operating characteristics of a company,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

05 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln; Technology

10 May 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Flattened Firm—Not as Advertised

Keywords: by Julie Wulf

2020
Working Paper

Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach

By: Eva Ascarza

The success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs ultimately depends on the firm's ability to understand consumers' preferences and precisely capture how these preferences may differ across customers. Only by understanding customer heterogeneity, firms can... View Details

Keywords: Customer Management; Targeting; Deep Exponential Families; Probabilistic Machine Learning; Cold Start Problem; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry

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April 4, 2009
Article

The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?

By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias

The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details

Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations

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08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

toward racial equity more recently, he began to feel uncomfortable helping only people who were bold enough to ask for this favor. After all, while social science research shows most people do not actively harm members of other racial,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

included those that “women have greater analytical skills and coordinate activities with much (greater) ease than men while upholding company values and strategy” (Mathews Daniel Kapito); “Having senior female leaders should lead to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Harvard Business School

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years & View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

his fiction, casting young managers in manufacturing and industrial settings as his protagonists. But his focus was not on their business activities so much as on their warps, biases, emotional hang-ups, and “all other decisions of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Reengineering Record high employment Service sector outpaces manufacturing in new job creation Influence: Low 1900 s 19 U.S. begins construction of Panama Canal Influence: High 10 1910 s 19 War Industries Board coordinates activities... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

Facebook’s vision and mission statement.” Brendan Coffey led the way in proposing that “FB needs a much more active strategy to place the user in a position of control with respect to how their data is used.” Bhanu Ramenani suggested one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

America, who were identified with specific companies, railways, banks, and small-business history workshops, met regularly to discuss methodological problems and archival sources. The unifying theme in this new era of intense academic View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

want corporate platitudes and passive social activism after living in pandemic limbo for so long. A = Align your post-COVID employee policies, resources, and timelines, like you would with any other business priority or client project. K... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

hundreds of the most used open source software projects—20 of which are detailed in the report. Call to action Tim Mackey, principal security strategist for SCRC, says commercial organizations can contribute to this project by conducting internal reviews of their open... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

31 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker

01 Dec 2015
HBS Seminar

Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

Financial performance is the result of operating performance. Operating performance includes all the things that a company must do to win the competitive battle in its industry to attract, retain, and profitably serve customers. It varies greatly among industries, but... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

24 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

develop successor candidates who appreciate your culture, respect your strengths, and who are good at preserving key relationships. But they should also be able to move the organization away from activities and practices that are holding... View Details

Keywords: Re: Mandi Nerenberg; Retail; Auto

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