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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
powerful and important.” When he thinks about the answer, his experience as a young graffiti artist gives him an edge. “I think it makes me look in corners and places that maybe others would overlook,” said Riley, who in January launched blackbox Lab as an initiative... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 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
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
fidelity, and consistency?’” Know what message you are sending. Typefaces elicit emotions, Chacko says, and there’s data to help understand how consumers respond. “There is a big difference, for instance, in... View Details
- 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
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
We all understand at some level that stars in the worlds of film, sports, and even business create results. If you want big box office for Pirates of the Caribbean, it probably pays to sign Johnny Depp to play the lead. But Harvard... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
you to HBS. In 2018, I started reflecting on the big existential question of "what is my calling?" It was really intimidating to think about – my main criteria were to work on problems that mattered to me, that I could have fun doing,... View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
those is the accelerated pace at which technology is moving– from data and quantum computing to the metaverse and blockchain. How do we, as a school and as business leaders, lean into these trends? What are the opportunities?" The desire... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
clean, resilient, and consumer-centric through the application of data science and behavioral economics, optimizing the system assets and operations across the electric meter.” Tanuj Deora HBS MBA 2006 Vice President, Market Development... View Details
- 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
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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
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Julie Battilana's Most Recent Columns for "Le Monde"
By: Julie Battilana
Julie Battilana is a regular contributor to the French newspaper "Le Monde." Below are her most recent articles.
Where are the Political Ideas Being Produced?
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- 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
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
A. Hidalgo. Scott Duke Kominers : Winner of the 2018 Western Economic Association International Best Economic Inquiry Article Award for “Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved... View Details