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Max Seel

As an undergraduate, Max Seel had two encounters that would mold his ambitions. The first was with a professor, Tom Warren, who recruited Max into an analytical chemistry research fellowship that explored naturally occurring cylindrical... View Details

26 Jul 2018
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Running the Numbers

people to buy into a new vision or better way of doing things is my favorite kind of challenge.” Today, as CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), a Massachusetts-based tech-intensive company focused on data management, strategic... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

what is clear is that the organization will have to be one that both consumers need and doctors trust, says John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

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Amanda Pratt

were very analytical and process oriented," she says. But there's another side to Amanda, one that wants to explore options and is willing to embrace novelty. Instead of going to a traditional engineering school, she chose a new... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech

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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog

SCA emphasizes how to deploy data science (analytics) capabilities in business operations and how employees can best leverage their own expertise and data science tools to improve business outcomes. The... View Details

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Prompt-a-thon Invites HBS IT Staff to Sharpen GenAI Skills | Information Technology

challenges and use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to create and refine prompts and solutions within a set time frame. HBS IT recently held a Prompt-a-thon hosted by the Business Relationship Management and Instructional... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.

The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather than the corporate ladder is... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jun 2015
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Fast Forward

same, but the scope has expanded from just research to helping business leaders take action to make America more competitive. The number of faculty involved has grown from 15 to almost 25, and a host of HBS alumni and corporate partners... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Cameron Cohen | MBA

pricing. I was inspired by how they were able to dramatically impact industries in which analytics and technology are still nascent by using advanced statistics, and it made me want to develop the technical expertise and View Details

October 2018
Case

BreezoMeter: Making Air Pollution Data Actionable

By: Frank V. Cespedes, Allison M. Ciechanover and Margot Eiran

The case focuses on an Israeli startup that provides actionable air pollution data and forecasts. The company has over 50 enterprise customers and its tool reached a million people daily in 67 countries. The co-founders wrestle with which markets and customers to focus... View Details

Keywords: Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Pollutants; Analytics and Data Science; Sales; Marketing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technology Industry; Israel; United States

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01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies

Image courtesy BlackSky There was a time not too long ago, says Amy Minnick (MBA 2000), when only governments and the military had the hardware and human resources necessary to acquire and interpret satellite imagery. But times have changed: BlackSky, the geospatial... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

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Whitney Wilson

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.... View Details

2019
Working Paper

Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text Analysis: Discovering CEO Oral Communication Styles

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Dan Wang, Natalie A. Carlson and Tarun Khanna

We demonstrate how a novel synthesis of three methods—(1) unsupervised topic modeling of text data to generate new measures of textual variance, (2) sentiment analysis of text data, and (3) supervised ML coding of facial images with a cutting-edge convolutional neural... View Details

Keywords: Spoken Communication; Business History; Analytics and Data Science; Finance; Performance

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27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details

28 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Wayfair

OrganizationKate Gulliver, Vice President Talent Operations, Wayfair; HBS '09 Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Wayfair is one of the world's largest online destinations for all things home. Through our e-commerce View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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HBS Course: Real Estate Private Equity - Research Resources

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PE data includes investments, portfolio company and firm profiles, exits and fundraising information. Moody’s Analytics CRE Search millions of real estate data points that cover every commercially... View Details

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Kelly Carson

Bridge had connected more than 50 pairs of language learners. "It took off more than I could have imagined," says Kelly. "It was like creating a business from the ground up, which I had no idea how to do. But I just did... View Details

21 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 21, 2007

Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsFinding the Right Job for Your Product Harvard Business School Note 607-028 Asserts that the typical ways that companies have learned to segment their markets, by product... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Curriculum | MBA

Curriculum MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID The curriculum includes three courses that are exclusive for students in these two programs: the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Seminar in Year 1 and 2, and the Business-Government Integrative Course called Creating Value in View Details

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