Big Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
News

Accelerating Research in China

of the world will be critical for future economic growth. “Harvard Business School can play a key role in shaping aspects of these global economic relationships,” says Plummer, the chief strategy officer at TalkingData, China’s leading mobile View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

shareholders. Having the protagonist in the classroom brought these challenges to life when Vodafone’s then CEO Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) attended the case discussion in February 2018. Colao spoke about the company’s key goals: using big... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

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Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity

chart a course toward a digital world that works for everyone. Our 10-episode listening tour brings scholars, practitioners, and activists into conversation about disparities in technology and the tech sector. The articles below share the View Details

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

unrealistic. It is in fact getting easier to integrate applications, but it's never going to be easy. There are two reasons for this: one technical; one organizational. Big companies have the power to convince or compel their partners to... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

01 Sep 2016
News

Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck

Why They Buy The first big puzzle Professor Clay Christensen tackled when he joined the HBS faculty in 1992 was an elemental one: Why was success so hard for businesses to sustain? The search led to his theory of disruptive innovation,... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

part, Serafeim studies how companies should respond to big problems—such as corruption or climate change—in order to sustain their competitiveness and how investors should integrate nonfinancial (environmental, social, and governance)... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

households, or masters of the universe on Wall Street, rely on their own personal experience when forming judgments about the financial future. That means the average chief executive of an investment bank was working on data going back no... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

base, says a case study by Victoria Ivashina . What will it take to scale? Private equity has come a long way since the classic book Barbarians at the Gate detailed the excesses of 1980s Wall Street—an earlier move-fast-and-break-things era of View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Research Brief: The Best Medicine

clinical trials,” Schwartzstein explains. That in turn could lead to lower levels of representation in clinical trials and less data on Black patients. Actually increasing representation in trial populations could help break the cycle,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

06 Dec 2021
News

Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS

KarimLakhani Digital Task Force Chair Professor Karim Lakhani and a task force of 36 faculty and staff from across HBS, charged with envisioning a new digital future for the School, have mapped a path for digital transformation. The direction they have set is based on... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Apr 2014
News

A revolution in healing

formerly was CEO of bioMérieux. He joined the company in 2011 after seeing impressive data indicating Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat rare diseases and cancer—using technology that was inexpensive to produce. The company is... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

pulled into the middle of a difficult business issue or a white-hot decision moment as a kind of internal coach. That is incredibly fulfilling from an impact perspective—being trusted as an advisor when it matters most. YY: What’s new in talent management? MB: View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

businesses) help in reducing unemployment, illiteracy, poverty, and unsocial practices." Several responses delved more deeply into issues associated with bigness and smallness. Edware Hare commented that "Better we should... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2022
News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

resources. “We have ideas that are well-grounded in both theory and data about what could work, but we have to try them out,” Ely says. Her newest research focuses on the creation and evaluation of a unique leadership development program... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2014
News

Customizing Couture Online

Customizing Couture Online Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Katrina Lake Dressing by Number Dressing by Number Karen Moon Making Big Data Fashionable Making View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Professional Services

06 Oct 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)

kind of disposition, I never thought I could end up in the sales organization of a beer company after college. While many of my classmates used their pre-application years to craft their resumes, I felt empowered to take a big risk... View Details

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Andres Sarmiento

a return in my investment. I wanted to switch industries to technology where I could impact the business's big picture and not simply the technical aspect. My internship at Amazon pushed me hard to learn about View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services

24 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand

summer 2018. While she appreciated the resources of a large organization like Samsung, Ho wanted to be closer to the action and build her experience in big data and artificial intelligence at a smaller firm.... View Details

Keywords: Technology

24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Data-Driven and in Demand