Business Analytics - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Sep 2011
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PublicationsThe Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators Authors:Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract Some people are just natural... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 1996 (Revised November 2006)
Background Note

General Mills, Inc.: Appendix of Comparable Company Data

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Financial ratios for comparable companies to be used in conjunction with an analysis of the General Mills Annual Report. View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Analytics and Data Science; Food and Beverage Industry

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23 Oct 2019
News

Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

as Competing on Business Analytics and Big Data. In 2018, HBS led the development of the online Harvard Business Analytics Program. This... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

15 Nov 2016
News

Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers

Frank Cespedes (photo by Neal Hamburg) Frank Cespedes (photo by Neal Hamburg) “Every entrepreneur is selling all the time—to customers, investors, employees, and strategic partners,” observes Thomas Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of View Details

Profile

Philipp Schäelli

you need to visit and live in countries yourself in order to understand them. Having interacted with Start-ups and VCs as president of the Entrepreneurship club I knew that I wanted to be investing at a slightly later stage of the development process of a View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

06 Dec 2021
News

HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

Big Data for Social Good from Harvard Online Business Analytics Data Privacy and Technology from Harvard Online Data Science for Business from Harvard Online Data Science... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

08 May 2015
News

Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness

Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, believes all businesses—both established and startup—must embrace digital transformation. Iansiti’s analysis of innovation in digital technology at General Electric,... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

bet on an HBS graduate who has no direct experience in the field, but who has a strong business background and a deep interest in how talent and organizational decisions drive performance. The game changers in this field will have strong... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 Oct 2011
What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

through the lens of "sabermetrics" to compete with much better-funded organizations, achieving success with a relatively small investment. Writing recently in The New York Times, Cade Massey and Bob Tedeschi speculate on whether the film will rekindle the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Student-Profile

Rohan Kekre

I grew up in Rochester, NY and came to Harvard College broadly interested in math, but not quite sure of where it would take me. I ended up studying applied math with a focus in economics. What ultimately attracted me to economics, like many others I think, was that it... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation

alumni would look back and say, ‘This education enabled me to lead a fulfilling life that I couldn’t have led otherwise.’ That’s the big ambition here,” says HBS’s Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges

Enriching the MBA Experience Through Curricular Innovation In its first century, Harvard Business School created the pedagogy that has come to define management education around the world. The case method, adapted from Harvard Law School,... View Details

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

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

Harvard Business Publishing has released new toolkits to help managers make key marketing decisions on market analysis, breakeven analysis, customer lifetime value, profit and pricing, and analyzing the competitive environment. The five... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Dec 2020
News

Hit Pause

issue from a variety of perspectives instead of taking the standard linear, analytical approach,” says Badaracco. Draw on the insights of others, he suggests, whether from your living network or the long-dead writers of antiquity, to gain... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Leaders must be strategists first

questions facing a business,” says Montgomery, the Timken Professor of Business Administration and Director of Research at HBS. Once the heart of leadership, strategy has devolved to an analytical problem to... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

HBX: Expanding Our Reach

business education and pedagogy.” — Professor Bharat Anand, HBX Faculty Chair The strategic focus of HBX centers on the potential for impact. For new audiences, this will equate to transformational educational experiences delivered around... View Details

Keywords: online learning; curriculum; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2018
News

A Force for Good

forged his career at the nexus of business and social impact. With his latest project, Skillist, he is building a fairer, more effective hiring process. Skillist is a proprietary, skills-based application system that works with companies... View Details

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

hiring and productivity, says Jeffrey T. Polzer, the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management at Harvard Business School. His recent paper probes how organizational researchers should study people View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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