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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
analytics model the ways that different variables interact: the number of seeds planted per acre, the amount of nitrogen added to the soil, the crop rotation, and rainfall and tillage practices, among others. With a large enough data set,... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
in our classrooms. We are excited by the possibilities generated by our research offices in California and Hong Kong and our planned center in Latin America. The California Research Center (CRC) has far exceeded expectations in terms of the View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
took Bob Higgins’s class on Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and got to learn about (and in many cases meet the case protagonists of) a number of companies in the area— Kyruus, Steward Health Care, athenahealth, and more. It made me... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
performance test scores. By June that number had jumped to 53 percent. “In nine months, we can effectively close the gap between poor and average performance on pre-K tests,” says Dias Griffin, “and we can do it for $6,000 per child,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
numbering 98) grouped in “sectors” (now eight) headed by presidents with general management responsibilities. Unlike a conglomerate, each sector has one flagship company with its own listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange. “The model... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
successes, the distraction of a later effort to improve gender diversity, the disproportionate number of Black employees laid off in a major downsizing, a drop in the number of Black candidates in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
India's economic growth is an exciting new playing field for the retail industry and for entrepreneurs looking to get in on the ground level, a panel of that country's businessmen agreed. Rising incomes, increased advertising, and a jump in the View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
increased allocations will take a number of years to implement. This growth naturally begs the question of sustainability. As has been highlighted throughout this volume, short-run shifts in the supply of or demand for venture capital... View Details
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
Abstract Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was shown, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
distribution will fundamentally change the number and variety of products that consumers purchase. However, there is sharp disagreement about what type of change will occur. Proponents of the "long tail" idea argue that a sharp... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
William R. Hearst
journalism" enabled him to capitalize on the public's thirst for exaggerated stories, and in the process, his circulation numbers soared. Though he was reviled as a journalist, Hearst built the largest publishing conglomerate in the... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Keeping Up with the Dean
Since becoming Dean last summer, Nitin Nohria has spent a lot of time meeting with alumni around the world. In late July, he traveled to England, India, and China. More recently, he has spoken to a number of HBS Club gatherings on the... View Details
Robert W. Johnson, Jr.
Johnson established J&J management policies, including the “credo,” which still exists today. He decentralized the company during the 1930s by dividing it into a number of small divisions, each responsible for a few products. As part... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard Business School, offered the following guidance to help organizations understand the metrics that serve as a baseline for diversity and inclusion initiatives and improve institutional processes, programs, and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Sep 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills
business talks, our other career skills won't do us much good. Many of us, however, approach these critical conversations woefully unprepared. Fortunately, a large number of Harvard Business School faculty research this area constantly,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
describes his current position, explaining, "Progress takes a long time. When we took over our schools, 10 percent of the students were doing grade-level math. We've doubled that number in four years—but we're still at only 20 percent.... View Details
Alfred M. Zeien
market. As a part of that strategy, an extensive amount of pure product research was conducted each year. This research enabled Gillette products to compete primarily with themselves, allowing the company to achieve its goal of being View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Samuel M. Walton
1987, Wal-Marts numbered over 1,000 and had sales of $14 billion. Gaining momentum from the success of Wal-Mart, Walton created the highly successful bulk food store chain, Sam’s Wholesale Club, which also earned revenues in the billions.... View Details
Keywords: Retail
David L. Geffen
label. In less than five years, Geffen Records became the third largest label in the recording industry, and Geffen sold it to MCA in 1990. Beyond his success in the music industry, Geffen has also produced and developed a number of... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Do You Feel Lucky?
NBC: Today Show NBC: Today Show Depending on how the numbers fall tonight, one or more lucky winners could find themselves in a life-changing scenario as the recipient of an estimated $1.6 billion jackpot, with a cash option of $904... View Details