Filter Results:
(4,054)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,054)
- People (10)
- News (507)
- Research (1,701)
- Events (22)
- Multimedia (46)
- Faculty Publications (1,145)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,054)
- People (10)
- News (507)
- Research (1,701)
- Events (22)
- Multimedia (46)
- Faculty Publications (1,145)
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
could not ask for a better group to review applications and interview candidates. I am grateful for the commitment and dedication they have brought to this task”, said Datar. According to Jodi Goldstein (MBA 1996), managing director of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
historical collections of books and periodicals in two new underground floors of environmentally controlled stacks. In recognition of this extraordinary gift, the reading room will be named in honor of the Stampses. Advisory Board Boosts Fellowships Once View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
highly efficient, and environmentally friendly service anywhere in the country through a national network of independent waste haulers and recyclers. A player in the sharing economy, Rubicon was developing an on-demand mobile application... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire outside specialists to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing staff to perform these functions.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
thriving. Applications are on the rise again after trending downward for several years. Only one out of nine applicants to the Class of 2010 got a coveted acceptance letter. Almost no one passes up the... View Details
- May 2024
- Supplement
gWorks (A)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Relationship Management; Technology Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Growth Management; Applications and Software; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; United States
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "gWorks (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-721, May 2024.
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
proprietary data from a mobile phone application through which residents can submit service requests to the city of Boston. Users who received photographic evidence that their service requests had been addressed were more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
on a profitable and scalable basis. With Pearson's overall strategy shifting from the developed to the developing world and from a supplier of books to a host of other learning products and services, the company thought PALF's lessons might be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
know prior to this program, to help solve a real-world problem was a lot of fun and rewarding at the same time. Cathy Xu: I was able to see the application of statistics testing and how regressions help shape decisions in real life, and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
assessed skills and used both deep learning and low-touch career coaching to uncover talent that may be overlooked by traditional applicant tracking systems. Our results were very promising, but we felt a tug towards the downstream pain... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
durations, and dispatch it as electricity on demand. Cal's role prior to HBS was an Aerospace Industry Application Engineer at Mathworks. Aditya Desai (MBA 2022, Section J), Summer Internship: MBA Summer Intern at Natron Energy Natron... View Details
- Web
Demo Day | New Venture Competition
investors. While teams may not all be actively seeking fundraising, this is an amazing sneak-peek opportunity to meet up-and-coming Harvard Business School ventures. For Students Application & Eligibility Only students that apply to the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
HBS faculty, while aspiring MBA Program applicants had their first exposure to the case method during Prospective Student Day events, organized each year by the AASU and the HBS Admissions Office in conjunction with the conference.... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
inventory turns and can be uniformly utilized by all stakeholders to assess whether a retailer is carrying too much or too little inventory. We explain applications of the metric with examples and lay out prescriptions for retailers.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
" Celso Maia added: "Predictions will improve but wise application in most cases still remains under XIII century style." As Arpit Goyal put it: "The whole system is centralized on two notions, 'uncertainty' and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
into their products and services, from sources (e.g., labor conditions in paper plants where company stationery is manufactured) to applications and ultimate fate (e.g., how used computers are disposed of). Whether this is called... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
application of that work to the company's own products." Now a provider to multiple vendors, Big Blue has become eager to be part of the solution to a problem rather than determined to be the only solution. Long a leading... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- Web
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
bias exists in recruiting, and it is the responsibility of employers to both name it and address it in order to create diverse and successful organizations. Ensure you are writing inclusive job descriptions so a diverse range of candidates enters your View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
COVID-19. The largest group of Promise applicants at CCRI comes from families making less than $25,000 annually. Can you speak to how the program opens doors for students and provides a boost to local economies? Higher education is the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
applicable skill set. As he was finishing his MBA, he interviewed at Lehman Brothers and learned that many people at the company had worked in government, notably former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. Offensend thought... View Details