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  • 20 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

lacked the funds necessary to build a DVD factory and exited the consumer electronic industry almost entirely at the end of the 1990s. Again, this relatively unknown story provides an intriguing opportunity for description and analysis by... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products
  • 09 Dec 2015
  • Research Event

How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

explained that the world of business analytics includes descriptive analytics (analyzing what has happened), predictive analytics (analyzing data... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories
  • 05 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs

in their job listings, research shows that the language of job descriptions often subtly adheres to gender stereotypes. And that deters members of the opposite gender from applying to those jobs. For example, a few years ago, social... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making Course Number 2236 Associate Professor Joshua Schwartzstein Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Project Course Description Effective managers need sound judgment to... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get

evidence of management ability and leadership potential, while Tamblyn probes for hard analytical skills. Yet both scrutinize resumes with the equivalent of “x-ray specs,” hoping to find hidden qualities that could be meaningful for their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

lackluster performance. We will also adopt a holistic view of turnarounds that combines the analysis of strategy, organization, operations, culture, and finance. While these elements are analytically distinct, we will examine how they... View Details
  • 08 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital

VC,” Memme wrote in his article for Medium. “The ability to combine critical thinking skills, an understanding of what it takes to commercialize innovation, and my love of all things entrepreneurial convinced me I had a lot of value to add. More importantly, Leone’s... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
  • 10 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

competition. The emergence of the Indian software industry offers a unique experimental setting to ask whether globalization can promote convergence in corporate governance. — Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu Part of our narration of the Infosys corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

descriptive study of these processes in an emerging category-modern Indian art. Discourse analysis revealed how market actors shaped the construction of meaning in the new category by reinterpreting historical constructs in ways that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

includes analytics scholars interested in healthcare and healthcare practitioners interested in analytics. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55291 forthcoming Accounting Review Who Consumes Firm... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

description of the economic conditions in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, then details the BEE Commission, and finally narrates Charnley's story. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-057.pdf Managing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from the home country. This is not an accurate View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

firm-level data between 1998 and 2003. First, we present the first exhaustive description of the U.K. retail sector using micro data sources. Second, in the spirit of Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (2002), we look at the contributions of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0710F&referral=2340 R&D Project Selection and Portfolio Management: A Review of the Past, a Description of the Present, and a Sketch of the Future Authors:D. Brunner,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

"multi-front negotiation campaign" (Sebenius 2010, Lax and Sebenius 2012) offers an analytic approach that may enjoy descriptive and prescriptive advantages over more traditional approaches that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

courses were general and descriptive ("Economic Resources of the United States," "Railroad Organization and Finance") and taught primarily through lectures from the economist's point of view. The situation remained... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

the Future Authors:Chia-Jung Tsay and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Through the decision-analytic approach to negotiations, the past quarter century has seen the development of a better dialog between the descriptive and the prescriptive, as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast majority of operating systems, influencing both the way these systems work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

residence, corporate control, and corporate equities. These markets provide opportunities for entrepreneurs, managers, and investors to circumvent a strong fences policy. The paper provides simple descriptive evidence of the growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 22 Jan 2025 By Course Title View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View A B C D E F G I L M N O P R S T U V W A Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits A... View Details