Business Analytics - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2022
Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

a distance-learning program. But this detour didn’t derail the career of Arthur Brooks, now a Harvard Business School professor. Brooks explores his unlikely shift from budding musician to hard-charging head of a Washington, DC, thinktank... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Privacy Notice This Privacy Notice applies to www.hbs.edu and other Harvard Business School websites that link to this Privacy Notice (the “Sites”). Harvard Business School understands that the privacy of... View Details

February 2001
Case

PlanetFeedback: The Voice of One ... The Power of Many (A)

By: James L. Heskett

The management of PlanetFeedback in proposes a merger with Intelliseek. Their goal is to create a comprehensive C2B and B2B business focused on the generation and analysis for business clients of consumer feedback data via the Internet, Planet Feedback's board of... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Information Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry

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23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth

Those problems can all be overcome. If executives bring to environmental decision making the same kind of optimism, opportunism, analytic thinking, and openness that they instinctively bring to bear on other View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

of late nineteenth century economist Max Weber; it’s called bureaucracy.) At the HBX Live event, Christensen explained why business practitioners should care about theory in the first place. “We teach our students to be data-driven,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

How has management education evolved, and where is it going? This question is of crucial importance for society, says HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Business leaders are admired yet often distrusted, and the idea of management as a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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HBS - The year in Review

the Harvard Business Analytics Program’s 400 participants who had attended virtual immersions in 2020 and 2021. Celebrating 100 Years of the Case Method The 2021-22 academic year marked the centennial of the... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

software platform; investing in software development capabilities; building advanced analytics capabilities; and embracing crowd-based product development. With all this, GE is evolving its business model.... View Details

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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

competitive position. Students learn to: Develop a mastery of a body of analytical tools and the ability to take an integrative point of view. Use these tools to perform in-depth analyses of industries and competitors, predict competitive... View Details

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

26 Sep 2023
Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

faster decisions. Big data analytics also allow businesses to improve their operations and efficiency, explore other new waves of big data use opportunities, and eventually exploit new sources of competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology

05 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

Established in 2010, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) works to deepen understanding of the environmental challenges facing business leaders and inspire new ideas and practical, effective... View Details

22 Jun 2022
Book

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

argues Timothy Butler, senior fellow and faculty advisor to Career and Professional Development Programs at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on career decision making. "It is more of a reflection, looking back over my 40... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

establishing the struggling young country's financial system. In The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

Profile

Jamira Cotton

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? My undergraduate education in engineering shaped my ability to think analytically about solving rigorous problems. Additionally, while serving clients at McKinsey I constantly learned to... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship

08 Dec 2021
Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

in Toronto, so my thought was ‘let's see if I can add some tools to my toolkit and market myself better to other industries.’” For Memme, the best way to way to make his way back home was one more stop in the United States – Boston, Massachusetts and Harvard View Details

29 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?

little weird," says Donald K. Ngwe, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. "Why don't companies just sell this merchandise closer to their customers? Why do some companies have a lot of outlet... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Retail

Apr 10 2019
Interview

What Is The Balanced Scorecard?

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

includes Economics for Managers and Business Analytics . Designed for those interested in learning business fundamentals more broadly, CORe program participants progress... View Details

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

Target was awash in customer data from these online sales, but to make sense of it, the company needed to bring in the right people. Paritosh Desai joined Target in August 2013 as vice president of business intelligence, analytics, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

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