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15 Jun 2016
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Google's Bold Move To Reinvent Every Device On The Planet

20 Dec 2022
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Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose

Why get an MBA? Many of my students are excited to acquire the tools that will help them solve the complex challenges that await them in the business world. That is admirable, but I have found that my most... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 17 Feb 2016
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Everything I Needed to Know About Parenting I Learned at HBS

During the webinar, Denise will translate leadership principles into a family-friendly context to help parents foster kindness and reduce tension at home. Everyone benefits! Well show you how to adapt these tools to your own family vision and action plan. View Details

November–December 2022
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Can AI Really Help You Sell?: It Can, Depending on When and How You Implement It

By: Jim Dickie, Boris Groysberg, Benson P. Shapiro and Barry Trailer

Many salespeople today are struggling; only 57% of them make their annual quotas, surveys show. One problem is that buying processes have evolved faster than selling processes, and buyers today can access a wide range of online resources that let them evaluate products... View Details

Keywords: Sales; AI and Machine Learning; Customers

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April 2023
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An Art & A Science: How to Apply Design Thinking to Data Science Challenges

By: Michael Parzen, Eddie Lin, Douglas Ng and Jessie Li

We hear it all the time as managers: “what is the data that backs up your decisions?” Even local mom-and-pop shops now have access to complex point-of-sale systems that can closely track sales and customer data. Social media influencers have turned into seven-figure... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Framework; Analytics and Data Science

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22 May 2020
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What Hospitals Overwhelmed by Covid-19 Can Learn From Startups

02 May 2014
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Profits and Economic Development

Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker

18 May 2015
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Harvard Business School Launches Gender Initiative

26 Jul 2010
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Leadership Tips from Tony Hayward (or Not)

07 Dec 2012
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Demand, prices rise for Bay State homes

09 Sep 2011
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Steve Jobs' real legacy: Apple Inc.

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We are studying the practical application of Michael Porter's value-based strategy to reform health care by examining best practices of integrated practice units, outcome measurement, cost measurement, value-based payment, episode based payment, regionalization of... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 09 Jul 2025
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Networking Isn't Guesswork-It's Science

If you are one of the many people who dread networking, find it awkward, or maybe just want to network smarter, join us for this interactive HBS alumni networking workshop. We will discuss the benefits of applying the scientific method to networking. This framework ... View Details

19 Feb 2016
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4 Updates About Peek Weekend at HBS

college Come from a family-owned business background 3. Peek Weekend is expanding in size Last year two cohorts of around 60 women participated in Peek. This year there will be three cohorts and around 200... View Details

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

anticipate that it will continue indefinitely unless derailed by possible but unlikely international conflicts. At the core of Asian economic development is its business leadership—managers and entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

2015
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Entrepreneurship Reading: Launching Global Ventures

By: William R. Kerr

Core Curriculum in Entrepreneurship is a series of Readings that cover fundamental course material in Entrepreneurship. Readings include Interactive Illustrations which help students master complex concepts quickly.
Global ventures are those that weave... View Details

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10 Oct 2023
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In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

about the upcoming elections, of course, it will be interesting to see how the rhetoric surrounding race relations, not thinking just about the Black versus white divide, but more broadly, native born versus... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Jan 2021
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Welcome to the BEI Blog!

business that will be left untouched by the far-reaching consequences of climate change. But we also understand that business can drive solutions and that facing these challenges offers a unique set View Details

11 Sep 2017
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7 Lessons from My Time at HBS

initially certain my way of thinking was the right one. Yet at the end of the project, I realized often that a specific point I had not understood led the project to new directions and ways View Details

July 2019
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Four Products: Predicting Diffusion (2019)

By: John Gourville

One job of product managers, marketers, strategic planners, and other corporate executives is to predict what the demand will be for a new product. This task is easier for certain classes of new products than for others. For new consumer package goods, for instance,... View Details

Keywords: Diffusion Processes; Product Adoption; Marketing; Forecasting and Prediction; Demand and Consumers; Product; Adoption; Product Launch

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