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Cherian Kurien

ability to engage and communicate such analysis in a clear and easy to understand manner with your fellow colleagues. I was keen on such a collaborative and dynamic learning environment as opposed to a lecture based one. How has your... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail

29 Jun 2019
News

Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa

data analysis and making sure that you make choices that are as informed as possible. This is what really is helping us now make Suguba as successful as possible—hopefully through our impact on entrepreneurs both women and young across... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

in Latin America. The two-day event featured a case discussion (on Embraer, the Brazilian commercial aircraft manufacturer), presentations and analysis of new research, and discussions on the complexities of case writing throughout the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

since then has experienced a lingering period of weakness, with slower than usual productivity growth, job growth, and investment growth. The report, Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided: The State of US Competitiveness in 2016, which contains an in-depth View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Sep 2019
News

Level Up

fed by some four thousand media sources that can give sports business executives an immediate idea of what platforms, products, or people are moving the industry—and which ones aren’t. “We’re helping our clients stay on top of comparative View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth

November 2021 (Revised December 2021)
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PittaRosso (B): Human and Machine Learning

By: Ayelet Israeli

This case supplements the "PittaRosso: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Pricing and Promotion" case, and provides major highlights on what happened at the company since the first case. View Details

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October 2006
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Location Choices across the Value Chain: How Activity and Capability Influence Collocation

By: Juan Alcacer

There has been a recent revival of interest in the geographic component of firm strategy. Recent research suggests that two opposing forces—competition costs and agglomeration benefits—determine whether firms collocate in a given geographic market. Unexplored is (1)... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Sales; Research and Development; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Markets; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Telecommunications Industry

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01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

curriculum. In that exercise, designed to make managers more comfortable using personal computers and to help them recognize the changes technology would bring to their organizations, each participant was provided with a personal computer to use for View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2012
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

the viewers' emotional response with the help of eye-tracking technology combined with facial expression analysis software. Evoking surprise proved to be the most effective way of capturing attention, while evoking joy was the most... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology

29 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

to wonder whether having shed much of her femininity will compromise her effectiveness as a leader. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406096 PublicationsFinding Lost Profits: An Equilibrium View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing

implemented what we propose. Yet lean retailers like Home Depot and Wal-Mart already incorporate some SKU-level analysis in their own inventory decision making. Calculating SKU-level variation can be done on a simple spreadsheet, so... View Details

Keywords: by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond & David Weil; Consumer Products

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…

sustaining a Human Resources function that brings value to the business. One of these values will come through better management and analysis of data that connect the human element to business results. It will not be an easy road,... View Details

29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic planning in financial services, business services, telecommunications, and consumer products. It was during a product line analysis for a pet food company that I discovered... View Details

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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog

Course Administration Course grades will be based on class participation (50%) and a short paper (50%). For the paper, students will apply the tools and ideas from the course to prepare, with one or two partners if they wish, an analysis... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment

the authors have identified eight core functions of business work, such as quantitative analysis and enterprise control. A reader armed with an individual BCII profile can learn from the text how to assess work opportunities in terms of... View Details

Keywords: Bob Binstock

01 Oct 2002
News

Amy S. Langer

Langer has served as executive director of the National Alliance for Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), a leading patient advocacy and educational nonprofit based in New York City. “As a patient, I found it very hard to get information,” says Langer. “I wanted to... View Details

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

to find that they were now competing with Amazon.” Reversing the trend What should boards do to improve their focus on innovation? Making that strategic change starts with a frank analysis of the skills and expertise that may be lacking... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

of patent applications, on facilitating transactions in the market for ideas. Standard-Essential Patents Josh Lerner builds a framework for the analysis of standard-essential patents and suggests a policy reform. Playing Favorites: How... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

conceptualizing the airplane as a collaborative, open-source innovation. Similarly encouraging was the fact that several levels of analysis (individual, team, organization, networks, society) are being examined. We were especially... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

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