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- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
Source: peterhowell Big data has shifted the ground under every business, enough so that many managers are waking up to the fact that they are already behind in developing a smart data strategy. Data has always been important in business,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- August 2015 (Revised May 2017)
- Case
TSG Hoffenheim: Football in the Age of Analytics
By: Feng Zhu, Karim R. Lakhani, Sascha L. Schmidt and Kerry Herman
In 2015, Dietmar Hopp, owner of Germany's Bundesliga football team TSG Hoffenheim and co-founder of the global enterprise software company SAP, was considering how to ensure long-term sustainability and competitiveness for TSG Hoffenheim. While historically a small... View Details
Zhu, Feng, Karim R. Lakhani, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Kerry Herman. "TSG Hoffenheim: Football in the Age of Analytics." Harvard Business School Case 616-010, August 2015. (Revised May 2017.)
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.” Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want to do. After studying both law and business View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- July 2000
- Case
Dawn Riley at America True (C)
By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty
Dawn Riley and America True are based in Auckland, New Zealand, where racing will begin in six weeks. The senior management team will be meeting in August 1999 to decide whether or not to make changes to Tag, the practice boat that they are using as a testing platform.... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Leadership; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Sports; Gender; Management Teams; New Zealand
Hill, Linda A., and Kristin Doughty. "Dawn Riley at America True (C)." Harvard Business School Case 401-008, July 2000.
- Web
Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Zhang : Winner of the 2020 Emerald Literati Award for Highly Commended Papers for "From Words to Pixels: Text and Image Mining Methods for Service Research" ( Journal of Service Management , 2019) with Francisco Villarroel Ordenes. 2019... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
economists—had foreseen. The crisis raises questions about how competently financial institutions, such as mutual funds, managed their global capital investments. It raises questions about how effective the International Monetary Fund's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Political science has seen a rise in probability forecasts for geopolitical events, with forecasting competitions and blogs like Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com offering probabilities of election results, outcomes of sporting events,... View Details
- November 2002 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Mount Everest-1996
Describes the events that transpired during the May 1996, Mount Everest tragedy. Examines the flawed decisions that climbing teams made before and during the ascent. View Details
Roberto, Michael, and Gina Carioggia. "Mount Everest-1996." Harvard Business School Case 303-061, November 2002. (Revised January 2003.)
- 17 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)
active participation of prominent African alumni, including Hakeem Belo-Osagie (HBS ’80), as well as others with expertise in the field, "Africa Rising" will offer big picture understandings of the continent, and the ways in which its past informs the... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- Blog Post
5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS
Student Organization (LASO), sports clubs like the B-School Blades, professional clubs like Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA), and interest clubs like the Wine & Cuisine Society. With classes moving online for the remainder... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Download Jakurski profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1948 Born, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1971 Earns BS, Mechanical... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
efforts in two recent cases, “The Brand Management of Places” and “Israel at 70: Is it Possible to (re)Brand a Country?” Success without a roadmap Government and business leaders hoping to shift the conversation about their regions might... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
possibility that hiring managers would be swayed by their own backgrounds, meaning that sporting either a finance degree or a social work degree didn't result in preferential treatment for a potential... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
professional awakening about how he managed his company was part of a larger reflection about how he managed something more personal: his anger. READ MORE DM: You’ve spoken about how you underwent anger... View Details
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
isn’t any slack.” Bias in business In a business context, Zhang surmises that racial bias might similarly be more prevalent when performance is high. It’s been well documented that company managers sometimes show hubris when a firm is... View Details
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Kennedy Stephen M. Waters James A. Stern William J. Kneisel Donald H. Layton Kevin W. Kennedy A managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he has spent his entire career, Kevin Kennedy has served the firm in a number of positions,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Industry Information - Alumni
theoretical and empirical on cross-border banking, as well as information on regulatory initiatives. Reuters: Finance Breaking news on the banking industry delivered by Reuters journalists. + – Business of Sports Business of View Details