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  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Recruitment and selection are now more important for various reasons. Due to the data and analytical tasks facing many sales forces, productivity ramp-up times have increased. Each hire then represents a bigger sunk cost for a longer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Oct 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

Managers, which helps students use data analytics tools to identify business opportunities and shape solutions to problems. The MBA Program is also incorporating content about inclusion throughout the curriculum and is exploring in the... View Details
  • December 2023
  • Article

When Should the Off-Grid Sun Shine at Night? Optimum Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Investments

By: Christian Kaps, Simone Marinesi and Serguei Netessine
Globally, 1.5 billion people live off the grid, their only access to electricity often limited to operationally-expensive fossil fuel generators. Solar power has risen as a sustainable and less costly option, but its generation is variable during the day and... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Renewable Energy
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  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

World. The book’s authors, Harvard Business School Professors Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani, say Peloton is just one example of how digital technologies such as analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamentally shifting... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

new ability to collect and store an incredible amount of data. And that has made sales management a more complex job, requiring a level of analytical and business acumen that wasn’t needed 20 years ago. Sales managers who have a shaky... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Sep 2023
  • News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

that I met in 2001 when I first came to campus was Professor Francis Frei. She was incredibly inspirational. One of my first professors during the analytics program starting as an MBA student. And I went to see her after a class and I... View Details
  • 2022
  • Book

L'entreprise, une affaire de cœur

By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Leading Change
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    The Heart of Business—Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

    How to unleash “human magic" and achieve improbable results.

    Having recently stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Best Buy, Joly shares the leadership principles – illustrated by multiple vivid and concrete stories -- that underpinned... View Details

    • 25 Jun 2020
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

    world and the business problems they were solving.” After the Chamber, she accepted a consulting position with Deloitte in Washington DC where she “worked in the strategy and analytics practice for public sector clients. I focused my work... View Details
    • Article

    Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization

    By: Shoshana Zuboff
    This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, 'surveillance capitalism,' and considers its implications for 'information civilization.' The institutionalizing practices and operational assumptions of Google Inc. are the... View Details
    Keywords: Surveillance Capitalism; Big Data; Google; Information Society; Privacy; Internet Of Everything; Rights; Economic Systems; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics
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    • 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
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Action Plan: Life Study

    analytical brain to figure out how something should go, it’s usually wrong.” That effortless, spontaneous, go-with-the-flow approach has taken Hartley in some completely new directions over the decades: “However you start is not how... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
    • 26 Jan 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress

    business operations, he settled on the field of health care as an area where he could really make a difference. "There is no lack of problems in health care, and I think that someone with a structured analytical background can make a... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
    • 18 Jan 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

    incidents amounted to about 5 percent of the pool of workers studied over the three-year period. “If I was [studying] paper clip stealing and all that, then it should probably be 75 percent,” Minor says. Minor’s co-author, Michael Housman, chief View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland
    • 23 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

    borrowing to the way preschoolers play. “Put aside your differences, and, like kids, find something that works,” he says. 3. Know when to ignore the data At a time when data analytics seem to be essential for decision-making, McDonald... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    A Continuum of Innovation

    discussions that make the case method such a powerful learning experience. In a related step, for the first time this year, we are offering an RC course called Data Science for Managers to help students, as general managers, use data View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Action Plan: Wild at Heart

    C-suite roles, including as the global head of client analytics for Merrill Lynch and CMO for JPMorgan, ITG, and the state of Rhode Island. But she also always had an eye for design. Her early career included launching a dress line for... View Details
    Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; gardening; entrepreneurship; sustainability
    • Spring 2016
    • Article

    The Billion Prices Project: Using Online Prices for Inflation Measurement and Research

    By: Alberto Cavallo and Roberto Rigobon
    New data-gathering techniques, often referred to as “Big Data” have the potential to improve statistics and empirical research in economics. In this paper we describe our work with online data at the Billion Prices Project at MIT and discuss key lessons for both... View Details
    Keywords: Billion Prices Project; Online Scraped Data; Online Price Index; Economics; Research; Price; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 01 Jun 2023
    • News

    Bridging the ESG Data Gap

    ecosystem. It provides students and alumni from across Harvard’s 13 schools with wide-ranging resources and support for creating their own ventures and solving problems through innovation. During Metric’s incubation at the i-lab, Murday developed View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • Teaching Interest

    Negotiation

    By: Kevin P. Mohan

    Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details