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- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
new ideas and gauge their effects is a game changer, revealing surprising insights that can lead to incremental changes that can have a cumulatively huge effect on business. After research that the checkout experience could be improved, for example, Booking’s View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Strategy Design Thinking and Innovation Disruptive Strategy Negotiation Mastery Organizational Leadership Sustainable Business Strategy Sustainable Investing All our courses can be offered as a private... View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
proposed the idea of a low-cost quartz design that would compete in the market not on precision, but on fashion. SMH pursued the risky idea, but the project's young engineers, Elmar Mock and Jacque Muller, found themselves ostracized by... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
of designing and launching the TV Game was $50,000; revenues were $7.3 million. All this and more is detailed in a 1985 HBS case study, "R&R"—the name of Reiss's company—which was supervised by Professor Howard Stevenson (and prepared by... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
Kimberlé Crenshaw, can help to think about environmentalism as well. Intersectionality is the idea that individuals exist in a crossroads of all their identities, with privilege and marginalization in the intersection between their class,... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
an organization that uses engineering and design to improve people’s experiences with the health care system. The intersection of health care and tech is such a powerful space. I took STRATTECH to build fluency in the broader tech... View Details
- 26 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews
employees to discuss the quality of a job at a specific company. I think regulators focusing on labor conditions could tap into that trove of data to understand what works, so maybe we can design regulations... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
analyzing that data and designing strategy around it. That’s one reason eight HBS professors pooled resources in June to launch the Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data Executive Education program. “It was unprecedented to engage... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
Rio as an academic after earning a PhD at the University of Chicago. HBS is one of the schools that inspires Insper’s business school, for example, and it uses the case method to teach students in classrooms that were designed using HBS... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
are on their journey. Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas READ MORE STORIES Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas READ MORE STORIES Explore is for those who don’t have an idea for a venture yet who might want to delve into design View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
lecturer in Executive Education who also has a background in the civil service in his native Canada, worked with the State Department to design the custom program. Career employees in government agencies face unique challenges, Ager says.... View Details
- Profile
Peter Gumulia
high-quality education for millions of people,” Peter says. “At HBS, I’ve been able to work through these problems from multiple perspectives, including education, technology, business, and design thinking.” Peter plans on using his MBA... View Details
- 02 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip
and a community savings and loans cooperative in Migori County, Kenya. At Lwala I worked in Monitoring & Evaluation, Program Design & Implementation, and Development. After two and a half years at Lwala I took a position in Player... View Details
- 21 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
visiting a senior center in a Boston suburb to understand how comfortable seniors were with technology. In Buenos Aires, the team used design thinking to identify new marketing ideas and iterate based on the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Alternatively, the group may designate "intellectual watchdogs" who are assigned the task of scrutinizing the process for unchecked assumptions and challenging them on the spot. Well-Defined Criteria. Without crisp, clear goals,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
collect the data, and then expect machine learning methods to spit out insight for you.” “We tend to think that when we have all this rich data and this machine learning technology, that the machines are going to just come up with the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
exports provide positive externalities and thus should be encouraged by government, the policy question is how to do so most effectively. One large body of thinking is devoted to identifying general barriers to exports that reduce trade... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- Blog
Should You Pursue the Certificate of Management Excellence?
category with a carefully curated selection of programs designed to meet a range of needs. Explore the CME Website for the full list of programs and read on to learn more about the Certificate, its benefits, and how to start working... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
COO and began a major restructuring of the 5,000-employee company. “It was hard,” he admits. “There were people who had been working at the company almost as long as I’d been alive. But I think I was able to gain their support because I... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
personnel who had no previous experience with measuring costs at all. Working with local administrators, the team designed a simple procedure for collecting data on patient care. As the case explains: “The process started with the data... View Details