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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
happens: Students spend part of class time—and some time at home—working at their own pace on videos and exercises. They get immediate feedback, and there are game mechanics—points and badges—to give even more motivation. Every interaction with our system is logged,... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
acknowledged, oral history can still be seen as a critical source of data on opinions, voices, and judgements on events in which there was often silence in written records. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-139 Uber and Stakeholders: Managing a New Way of Riding By 2015, technological innovations—the smartphone and the advanced data connectivity that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
conduct an empirical investigation on the impact of pooling tasks and resources on throughput times in a discretionary work setting. We use an Emergency Department's (ED) patient-level data (N = 234,334) from 2007 to 2010 to test our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
study about the Genzyme Center—the first building in the nation to receive a LEED Platinum rating.) Toffel and Simcoe collected data on 735 California cities from 2001 to 2008, including LEED registrations, construction starts, and... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
billings of the largest 500 firms or so. By contrast, Silk and King analyzed data from the US Census Bureau that includes revenue from some 10,000 agencies of all sizes, over half of which are small and serve local rather than national... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
request that the company conduct anonymous surveys about employee engagement and the company culture, and then ask that the data be shared in raw form, "not the chewed and digested and spun form." He also suggests urging board... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
possibilities." Though developed as a program for Harvard alumnae, Charting Your Course could become a model for similar programs offered to interested women elsewhere. Data collected from women in the reunion classes of 1981, 1986,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
“Since HBS, I have been intentionally inserting myself into businesses and technologies that have transformed humanity and the workplace as we know it today. In the late 1980s, I witnessed the PC revolution and rise of distributed data... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
single point in time — that is, to “accept the data of the momentary situation as if there were no past or future to it.” Yet this is the customary method. The typical economic theorist or government commission does not see the behavior... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
entrepreneurs (like Waze or Uber) from open data sources—rather than being controlled by a central utility. Pricing can vary by demand or by user’s ability to pay. This provides an astonishing ability to improve how the existing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
research findings, including highlights from an unprecedented HBS alumni survey on competitiveness, are presented in a special March issue of the Harvard Business Review. “The extensive data we’ve reviewed show that US competitiveness is... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and control, to design thinking and innovative problem solving, to data science and machine learning. And I know I could not have... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
the lawyers or the accountants. Schleyer: The big offenders get people talking, but I don't believe the American public has in general lost confidence in corporate America. Wagoner: Realistically, yes, the data suggest that business... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
need to build ecosystems, networks with those both inside and outside the organization. We are collecting data on how managers build partnerships, even with other industries, to gain insights into how to drive innovation in their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
more sophisticated mobile devices, the industry's four main players spent heavily to improve their infrastructures for providing reliable high-speed data services. T-Mobile, the smallest of the four major carriers, lacked the scale of its... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
water consumption in the firm's factories. The juxtaposition of information on both operations and CSR symbolizes the company's commitment to more than just the bottom line and its belief that both sets of data have a significant impact... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
which is often very different from what that person wants. You have been credited with 750 marriages. Is your long-term success rate better than the national average? I don’t have quantitative data on my divorce rate, but I’m going to... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
unconscious bias, support women to stay in the workforce, and shine a spotlight on STEM and skilled workers.” Collenette also shared data on the “too incremental” progress of women in Canada historically, and the loss of political ground... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
albums—and because it is among the sectors most strongly affected by digital technology. So I reached out to Nielsen SoundScan, the company that tracks recorded-music sales in North America, to obtain data for a random sample of over 200... View Details