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Careers Industry Information Careers Industry Information Want to know the latest in your respective industry? Are you researching before a big interview? We've compiled resources to help you stay current. + – Banking ABA Banking Journal... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
it and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long-term. The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining quantitative View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)
that as a philanthropist, impact investor, board member, employee or corporate partner. Fintech: Disruptions in Credit, Payments and Real Estate Faculty: Marco Di Maggio The advent of new technologies and big View Details
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
Deshpandé says. “But if you look at whether it’s done anything to affect the sales of the product category, the answer is no. This is a big market by any standards, and it’s growing exponentially.” After all, the country’s preference for... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
32 Hours Download full syllabus 6-8 hrs Module 1 Macroeconomic and Political Analysis Interpret data on countries’ macroeconomic and political performance. Highlights Inflation Introduction to the Macroeconomic View Middle-Income... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
everyone needs to measure impact.” "There are two big conversations among nonprofit leaders," says HBS associate professor Alnoor Ebrahim. "One is around accountability. The second focuses on performance, particularly impact." Ebrahim is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
were discovering the first version of the internet, Web 1.0. It had static web pages, was open source, built by web developers, and meant to be decentralized. Only a few forward-thinking businesses were imagining what would become Web 2.0: an interactive era controlled... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
technology so it could be useful to Western Union's most profitable real-time long-distance data customers. When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its processes, what comes out the other... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
sophisticated interventions, such as cardiac catheterization and bypass surgery. Big problems with meaningful solutions While the study couldn’t determine why Black patients ended up at lower-quality hospitals, Chandra is investigating... View Details
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
efficiency on a temporary team. What they call a team scaffold is fixed while individual team members flow through the structure. “The big 'aha' was how very little structure this is” The paper, published in the March-April 2015 edition... View Details
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
that launch anticorruption efforts grow their businesses more slowly than firms that don't, especially in regions where bribery is the expected norm. “If you think of the cost [of bribery] as just fines and regulatory actions, you're missing a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
understanding of why each one is critical in my industry. Gaming is, in many ways, the proving ground for the most cutting-edge technologies in the world. Gaming companies often deal with technology problems 10 years before any other industry. Although many companies... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
process by getting in the way of Schumpeter's "creative destruction." Read the journal: http://symposium.cshlp.org/content/74 Too Big to Live: Why We Must Stamp Out State Monopoly Capitalism Authors: Niall Ferguson Publication:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Kiran Gandhi
probing questions to advance our ideas forward. How do your HBS ambitions fit into the big picture of the world beyond? I am most passionate about eliminating gender inequality in the media. My goal is to use music as a medium to... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
Selling is changing, but broad generalizations and false dichotomies about ecommerce, big data, and other trends—hallmarks of current sales advice—are keeping business leaders from making sound decisions, says Frank Cespedes, author of a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
department at a Woolworth store back when they had manual cash registers. Candy bars used to sell really quickly, and the department needed constant restocking. During lunch, hundreds of customers would come in to buy snacks, and the lines grew long, so I needed to... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
why it might be taking so long. Researching Drugs Versus Devices She started with three decades of data from FDA databases on the approvals of all new drugs and high-risk medical devices between 1977 and 2007, measuring how long those... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details