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18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom announced in early 2013, adds... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Jan 2006
News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

LESSON FROM HBS "The secret of success often comes down to two main ingredients: think through a problem carefully and then act upon your analysis without a hint of procrastination. HBS is a very effective proving ground for this, and for... View Details

06 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

payouts-to-price, and earnings-to-price. That approach would tell an investor whether a stock is cheap or expensive with more confidence. Go beyond ratios. Consider doing a discounted cash flow analysis to estimate the intrinsic value of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

this stickiest of bottlenecks? Create business partnerships by framing the right questions, says Giusti, and then identifying and combining existing datasets for analysis to answer those questions. The organization also rallies individual... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Why are people so drawn to social media? The question long haunted Mikolaj "Misiek" Piskorski and eventually led to his new book, A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media. Drawing from years of research dating back to before Facebook, the book offers an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

more favorable coverage when spills were reported—the researchers performed a textual analysis of the newspaper stories, mining the text with software that ranks the tone of the words used in a given story. When they added up the scores,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17

http://www.whartonsp.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137044852 Institutions and Inequality in Single Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Edmund Malesky, Regina M. Abrami, and Yu Zheng Publication:Comparative... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

effects. His analysis suggests that major events occurring in response to periods of growth foster openness, tolerance, mobility, fairness, and democracy to support his thesis. The reverse is also true. He maintains that increasingly... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

atmosphere of unbounded optimism, notes Zlatev. Yu adds that the constant risk-benefit analysis that comes with living through a pandemic has exacerbated employee uneasiness. "A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FEELING APPREHENSION ... I THINK LEADERS... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration: 1956 - 1962 | Baker Library

full-year courses in marketing, control (accounting and statistics), production, human problems in administration, finance, and economics. (2) The well-known Written Analysis of Cases course was also added. The HRPBA curriculum had many... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

The Value of Difficult Conversations

perspectives of others, “This is a dialogue and I have to be a part of it.” She was also interested to see what was the baseline of her classmates’ analysis of this conversation, especially the international students. That kind of... View Details

Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

city, a country—with a clear connection to making life better for the people who live there,” Condo says. “I’ve always thought that one should try to do work that benefits society.” Michael Porter was ultimately the advisor for Condo’s DBA thesis, which included an... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Brett Lindsay Laffel

and other front office personnel with statistical analysis that was used for in-game strategy, salary arbitration, assessment of teams' Player Development programs, and the First-Year Player Draft. The right time for HBS After another... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Faculty Books

innovation and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Senior Lecturer Retsinas and his coauthors aim to stimulate debate based on their analysis of the opportunities and challenges of the components of global capital... View Details

Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

tested whether the subsidies were associated with differential attendance and weight loss over 12 months, as might be predicted by the expectation that they attract employees with differing degrees of motivation. Analysis and Results:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

between the manufacturing analysis we learned and making a movie,” he says. “With a movie, you take a dream — like somebody’s script — and break it into tiny pieces, or individual shots. A film typically contains hundreds of shots, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a comprehensive View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

this would have a further advantage for the team. The field-based research reported here is derived largely from analysis of team experiences with five principal Japanese baseball stars-Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Daisuke... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

public health effectively. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807016 Basic Techniques for the Analysis of Customer Information Using Excel: A Step-by-Step Approach Harvard Business School... View Details