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  • 31 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

limit and we naturally shift away from System 2 thought toward System 1 thought. Clearly, a complete System 2 thought process is not necessary for every managerial decision or for every small negotiation you may face. When you're... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
  • 10 Jan 2017
  • News

A Side of Data with Your Dinner

company that helps restaurants collect and analysis data to better understand their businesses, and, this month, a new book, The Underground Culinary Tour: How the New Metrics of Today’s Top Restaurants Are Transforming How America Eats.... View Details
  • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
  • Supplement

LendingClub (C): Gradient Boosting & Payoff Matrix

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
This case builds directly on the LendingClub (A) and (B) cases. In this case students follow Emily Figel as she builds an even more sophisticated model using the gradient boosted tree method to predict, with some probability, whether a borrower would repay or default... View Details
Keywords: Data Analytics; Data Science; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

no statement of the decision reached by the businessman...and generally business cases admit of more than one solution...[they] include both relevant and irrelevant material, in order that the student may obtain practice in selecting the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • Web

Career Outcomes | Research Associates

affiliated with the School’s doctoral program, they offer a wide variety of faculty-driven research challenges—from data construction and analysis to academic publication writing and research. With the added bonus of a generous tuition... View Details
  • February 2018 (Revised December 2020)
  • Case

People Analytics at Teach For America (A)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Julia Kelley
As of mid-2016, national nonprofit Teach For America (TFA) had struggled with three consecutive years of declining application totals, and senior management was re-examining the organization's strategy, including recruitment and selection. A few months earlier, former... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • May 2018
  • Exercise

Data Visualization & Communication Exercise

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
This exercise uses the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster to explore the relationship between data visualization, effective communication, and decision-making. Students review and analyze excerpts from the 13 charts engineers presented to NASA executives the night before... View Details
Keywords: Visualization; Data; Analytics and Data Science; Communication; Performance Effectiveness; Decision Making; Analysis
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  • Web

A Day in the Life: IT Business Analyst | Information Technology

A Day in the Life: IT Business Analyst By Annie Harrison on May 22, 2025 Ryan Conwell, manager of the IT Business Analysis team, shares how business analysts play a crucial role in ensuring IT projects meet their goals and serve the HBS... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

From observers to active participants in the global economy

efforts in Africa in part to the HBS course Written Analysis of Cases. “It combined the need for crisp, cogent analysis, based on the limited evidence available, and coming to a decision within a strictly... View Details
  • February 1996 (Revised February 1997)
  • Case

America Online, Inc.

By: Amy P. Hutton and Krishna G. Palepu
America Online's (AOL) stock price has soared nearly 2,000% since its IPO. However, there is considerable disagreement among analysts regarding the future prospects of AOL. Although many analysts are bullish on the stock, short sellers have sold around 7 million... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Analysis; Stocks; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Statements; Business Strategy; Web Services Industry
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  • July 1999
  • Article

Analysts' Forecast Accuracy: Do Ability and Portfolio Complexity Matter

By: Michael B. Clement
Prior studies have identified systematic and time persistent differences in analysts’ earnings forecast accuracy, but have not explained why the differences exist. Using the I/B/E/S Detail History database, this study finds that forecast accuracy is positively... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; Experience and Expertise
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  • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
  • Supplement

Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart (B)

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
Supplements the (A) case. In this case, Wehunt and Morse are concerned about the logistic regression model overfitting to the training data, so they explore two methods for reducing the sensitivity of the model to the data by regularizing the coefficients of the... View Details
Keywords: Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Customers; Household; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • Fast Answer

Reshaping Competition

Congressional Research Services reports:  research and analysis to support Congress in their legislative, oversight, and representational duties.  Link goes directly to search results for reports on antitrust. HeinOnline:... View Details
  • February 2018
  • Supplement

People Analytics at Teach For America (B)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the People Analytics at Teach For America (A) case. In this supplement, Managing Director Michael Metzger must decide how to extend his team’s predictive analytics work using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Forecasting and Prediction; Recruitment; Analysis
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  • 06 May 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

"Businesses are becoming so complex that integrating predictive analytics in decision making is not very far away I think 'predictive analytics' is the 'Moneyball' for businesses." Kapil Kumar Sopory said that, "Prevention... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • July 2005 (Revised June 2006)
  • Case

Ryanair Holdings plc

Examines the valuation of an Irish airline that reported its first decline in net income in 2004 and saw a 30% stock price drop on the news. Ryanair is a low-cost, low-fare airline headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, operating over 200 routes in 20 countries. The company... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; International Accounting; Analysis; Valuation; Air Transportation; Forecasting and Prediction; Finance; Air Transportation Industry; Dublin
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  • 18 Jan 2012
  • News

Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem

with in-depth analysis and specific recommendations, many of which will be detailed in a special March 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review. Alumni respondents received an early preview of the results and followed the announcement both... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • Web

Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) - Course Catalog

strategic, and operating decisions. Cases typically analyze the value implications of major strategic decisions or analysis of unique business models. Similar to SVC, the course will utilize more strategy... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2025
  • News

The Network Effect

recalls. Only later would they realize how well-matched their ambitions were: Model wanted to work in finance at a biotech firm, and Mathur wanted to become a health care investor. Today, Model is head of financial planning and analysis... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

benefit. The area of decision bias has grown as an important lens of analysis in many areas of business, from finance to marketing to negotiations. We also believe that cognitive biases explain why we allow... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace