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- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
"Excess of everything is bad it always relates to the matter in point (for example) getting big data about our customers and focusing too deeply on it will lead to not noticing other important facets However, while finalizing a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS FIELD Program?
foundations for working in and leading teams. There are various exercises surrounding communication, negotiation, team launches, emotional intelligence and self-awareness. The various forums set us all up for success in the remaining courses. One of my favorite... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
resulting void at the center of the business school curriculum eventually caused business educators to take a second look at the discipline of economics. Economics, in the decades prior to World War II, had occupied a relatively weak... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
started Montage at the start of my MBA, so I was able to center my learning experiences around my entrepreneurial journey. This is a risk-free period that will help you learn so much about yourself. HBS has many resources that can help... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
BlackTech Week have demonstrated the force of Black entrepreneurship and catalyzed success for many, Kanter says. Hatcher and Pearson have rebranded their initiatives under one umbrella, the Center for Black Innovation, which includes a... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- Research Summary
Overview
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
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even greater responsibility as an executive committee member for the Atlanta office. Adams later held senior executive roles at First Data Corporation, where he oversaw 11,000 employees in the United States, the United Kingdom, and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
of organizational capabilities, technological innovation through R&D, problem solving, knowledge, and continuous learning—investment in human capital and technology that only firms could generate. Chandler placed the issue of managerial coordination squarely in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld
inspire through beautiful art displays. For example, at the center of one of EcoWorld’s many buildings stands a massive, completely carbon neutral cube, designed to create a space to connect with others and embrace nature (see Figure 2).... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
created the world, he made data only available about the past. As teachers at HBS, we're trained to nail students to the wall if they ever make an assertion in class discussion that is not backed up with View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and operations. Garvin is also faculty chair of the School's Christensen View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
American hegemony giving way to a multipolar world order, we seem to be gravitating to a very familiar model: a bipolar world order centered around the West on one side and a Sino-Russian led bloc on the other. The first time this... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
racial disparities in wealth and income. And because homeownership is one of the principal ways in which families build wealth, housing, race, and economic inequality are all intertwined. It is no accident, for instance, that data from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
30-minute credit test is based on research in psychometrics conducted at Harvard’s Center for International Development to help lenders understand both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. The questions on the test seek not... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
health care system. Bushkin’s unassuming item is MedKaz®, a 4-GB flash drive carried on a keychain or in a wallet that can hold a lifetime of medical records, giving patients control over their data and providing a full picture for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
valuable insights from a company’s transactional data. Unlike the more traditional field cases, which have multiple exhibits drawn from interviews and hinge on a leader’s dilemma, Madrigal is a short-format case. It centers on the data,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
2004. Brailer’s mission is to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014 and to link those records to a national medical data network. “It’s time to put health information technology center... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
executives—including those who already possess an MBA or advanced business degree—a foundational understanding of quantitative analysis and data science. “Data and data analytics are transforming industries... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
works in San Francisco, where he co-founded the solar energy software company Folsom Labs with fellow HBS alum, Paul Gibbs. And he's still dutifully collecting stats, having now amassed a full eight years of data about himself. He and I... View Details