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  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

Summing Up How Can Strategic Planning be Adapted to Changing Needs? Strategic planning concepts and the notion of long-range planning will continue to be integral parts of responsible management. But they... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • September 2020
  • Article

Regulatory Sandboxes: A Cure for mHealth Pilotitis?

By: Abhishek Bhatia, Rahul Matthan, Tarun Khanna and Satchit Balsari
Mobile health (mHealth) and related digital health interventions in the past decade have not always scaled globally as anticipated earlier despite large investments by governments and philanthropic foundations. The implementation of digital health tools has suffered... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; mHealth; Digital Health; Design Thinking; Regulation; Intervention; Regulatory Sandbox; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Design; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; India
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  • Web

Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Sample Student Projects MOC Student Projects on Country & Cluster Competitiveness The competitive assessments listed on this page have been prepared by teams... View Details
  • August 2022 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough's Rise

By: Emily R. McComb, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team met with entrepreneur Teresa Maynard, who had applied for a $25,000 impact investment loan. The students thought the former Harvard Data Scientist’s bakery business, Sweet Teez Bakery, showed promise. Maynard had... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investment; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Financial Reporting; Small Business; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • Program

OPM Renew

professional network Continue to develop your network by living and working with entrepreneurial business leaders from diverse backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build new relationships with a cross-cohort View Details
  • 25 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Ana Barrera (MBA 2024)

led me to my pre-MBA career roles at Morgan Stanley and Harlem Capital, in which I worked on talented, diverse teams helping close the funding gap for underrepresented founders. Additionally, I care deeply about building a strong... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • Blog Post

What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

people. I also did freelance projects for venture capital and private equity firms (which then helped me to gain an internship in venture capital). With all this activity, it’s especially important to build out time to reflect on your... View Details
  • 2016
  • Article

Penalized Fast Subset Scanning

By: Skyler Speakman, Sriram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
We present the penalized fast subset scan (PFSS), a new and general framework for scalable and accurate pattern detection. PFSS enables exact and efficient identification of the most anomalous subsets of the data, as measured by a likelihood ratio scan statistic.... View Details
Keywords: Disease Surveillance; Likelihood Ratio Statistic; Pattern Detection; Scan Statistic; Mathematical Methods
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  • 2011
  • Case

CSCEC: Transformation and Development

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Hong Zhang
In 2001, CSCEC, the largest residential building constructor in China, greeted its new General Manager, Wenjie Sun, who was the President of China Overseas, a Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of CSCEC. In the following 9 years, Sun strived to advance the transformation and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Organizational Values; Strategy; Transformations; China
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  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Case Study: The Home Team

home repairs he was having to undertake. Then president of a 115-year-old independent Catholic school for boys, Kennealey had managed construction projects and budgeted for aging buildings’ capital expenses... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
  • Research Summary

My research draws upon social and cultural theories to address three important topics in marketing: branding strategy, organizing to deliver creative content, and cultural consumer behavior:

1)Branding Strategy: How are iconic brands built?

I have... View Details

  • 16 Oct 2015
  • Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

philanthropists. After three years in finance I was ready to come to HBS to build a more holistic skillset.  At work, it is easy to fall into a given professional function, or limit your engagement to thinking only about the performance... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

  Working PapersThe Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-Periphery Structures Dominate? Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Abstract Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

in many cases goals do more harm than good. Worse, they can cause real damage to organizations and individuals using them. "We argue that the beneficial effects of goal setting have been overstated and that systematic harm caused by goal... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • Sharpening Your Skills

7 Effective Ways to Lead Teams

creating a team to build a city of the future. The Importance of Teaming Fast-moving work environments need people who know how to team on the fly. Pulpit Bullies: Why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2010
  • HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

Tesco PLC is the third-largest retailer in the world, just behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour. But that didn't make the UK-based chain immune from many costly mistakes as it entered the US market in 2006. For example, it opened some of its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • Profile

Joy Chen

As a very young child, Joy Chen lived with her parents in the small corner of a chemistry lab building where the roof often collapsed when it rained. Determined to do better, she forced her way into the... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Incrementality Representation Learning: Synergizing Past Experiments for Intervention Personalization

By: Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
This paper introduces Incrementality Representation Learning (IRL), a novel multitask representation learning framework that predicts heterogeneous causal effects of marketing interventions. By leveraging past experiments, IRL efficiently designs and targets... View Details
Keywords: Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Multi-task Learning; Representation Learning; Personalization; Promotion; Deep Learning; Field Experiments; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customization and Personalization
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  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

decisions these models help make. It's all about keeping a clear trail of what's happening behind the scenes. “Instead of building their tech stack from scratch, small... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • Web

Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

superintendents in member districts of the Council of the Great City Schools. This three-day program helps participants explore key topics in strategy, management, and governance, including View Details