Analytic - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Feb 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance?

Keywords: by Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine & Michael W. Toffel

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

focus on managing injustice, rather than “managing blackness,” Courtney McCluney and Veronica Rabelo write in their chapter of the book. [Read an excerpt from Race, Work, & Leadership.] Companies can start by using data analytics to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Reflections on My First Semester Teaching at HBS

nontraditional careers and things like entrepreneurship has flipped to become the majority. The cases they read are infinitely more diverse, in terms of companies represented and background of protagonists. Companies like Khan Academy, Zipline, Collab Capital, and... View Details

Apr 12 2019
Interview

Understanding the Job Design Optimization Tool

22 Oct 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Feng Zhu; Advertising

2017
Working Paper

Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies

By: Kris J. Ferreira, Joel Goh and Ehsan Valavi

Problem Definition: Farmers face several challenges in agricultural supply chains in emerging economies that contribute to extreme levels of poverty. One common challenge is that farmers only have access to one channel, often an auction, for which to sell their crops.... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries; Agricultural Supply Chain; Intermediation; Multiple Cahnels; Walrasian Auction; Developing Countries and Economies; Supply Chain; Distribution Channels; Profit; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa

By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard

In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight countries, was acquired by The Rise Fund, one of the world’s largest private social impact investing funds, and by FS... View Details

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16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

advantage. It also made it very easy for leaders to think of strategy solely as an analytical exercise. "If we're being honest, I was part of the problem," Montgomery says. Montgomery and fellow HBS professor Michael Porter—who is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

discount, you'll receive 30% off your second and third courses for a total savings of $1,110 . Here are two learning pathways we recommend based on your career goals and stage. Analytical Toolkit: For professionals looking to strengthen... View Details

Apr 10 2019
Interview

What Is The Balanced Scorecard?

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Competitions & Challenges - Health Care

Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Full-time and part-time master's students from accredited Master of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Information Systems, Master of Public Health, Master of Business Administration program, or other... View Details

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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

competitive position. Students learn to: Develop a mastery of a body of analytical tools and the ability to take an integrative point of view. Use these tools to perform in-depth analyses of industries and competitors, predict competitive... View Details

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Research Staff Services - Faculty & Research

analytic skills in both qualitative and quantitative arenas. Their backgrounds and education are diverse, meaning that they not only come from different parts of the world, but their specialties range from Art History, English, and... View Details

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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

such as Sustainable Investing , Power and Influence for Positive Impact , and more. Working with MBA Students Summer Associates Students play a valuable role for organizations in tackling issues that utilize their analytic and strategic... View Details

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

be complemented with quantitative analyses. The development of quantitative methods for the study of business models, however, has trailed that of their qualitative peers. In this paper, we develop an analytical framework based on the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2021
Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

has now been on the investment team in Toronto for over a year. Key Learnings & Advice Memme brought a persistent attitude and work ethic to OMERS Ventures alongside other transferable skills that have helped him in his work. His View Details

04 Jan 2022
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Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

represented by debates over machines versus humans, analytics versus intuition, economic versus societal value, exploration versus exploitation, egoism versus altruism, etc.” "What we need to do is think of the oneness of nature and our... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

top U.S. health administration schools and a recent article in the Lancet, our educational systems focus their curricula on isolated,theoretical subjects, such as analytics and quantitative problem solving, rather than the team-oriented,... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

rate—the amount of waste that it recycles and composts—has for years lingered below 18 percent, a fraction of what some other major American cities have achieved. And DSNY has been slow to adopt tools such as rat-proof containers and real-time View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

July 2023 (Revised July 2023)
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Generative AI Value Chain

By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins

Generative AI refers to a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can create new content (e.g., text, image, or audio) in response to a prompt from a user. ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude are examples of text generating AIs, and DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are... View Details

Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Model; Hardware; Data Centers; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Value

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