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- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
good,” says Teodorescu. Much of the earliest applications of machine learning concerned language. At the birth of the field in the 1940s, British mathematician Alan Turing conceived the abstract grammars to analyze texts and describe reasoning. Since then, the field of... View Details
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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
- 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
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
we provide evidence that those firms with insiders selling prior to the announcement of the loss face significantly more negative abnormal returns. Our findings are robust to subsample analysis examining firms reporting goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
Dilip Soman Abstract Decision researchers have long been interested in behaviors that deviate from rational choice. Of these, the compromise effect has received considerable attention, with it repeatedly shown that the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=972044 Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Publication:The World Bank Economic Review, 2010 Abstract Most major View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Sebastian Schwartz | MBA
make people's lives easier and better. I have a quantitative focus, and always try to include consideration and analysis of data in my decisions and work. I love learning from others and working in teams;... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
prostituted into something lackluster, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward." Break the innovative process down and analyze each component, Christensen recommends. That will help you understand "where the competitive advantages lie." His View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in process improvement programs has not... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
leadership skills he honed at HBS, including how to "motivate teams, communicate effectively, and create a clear agenda for an organization that you're building from scratch. Studying 500 cases also gave me that balance of analysis and... View Details
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The Anatomy of Fraud (TAF) - Course Catalog
develop expertise to understand financial reporting implications of business decisions and identify key control fault-lines in companies that can lead to fraud. The course is also relevant for students seeking to develop sophisticated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
Carroll (MBA 1989) as CEO of global mining giant Anglo American. Both cases center on her decisions around the temporary shutdown of mines in South Africa, one of many steps the company would take under her leadership to prevent worker... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Wasserman Abstract—This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
(with Sumantra Ghoshal), Michael Porter, and Pankaj Ghemawat. “I enjoy the variety and intellectual challenge of the problems that managers confront” More seasoned managers seeking pragmatic guidance on day-to-day decision making can turn... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 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
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
network tool, which closely matched the executives' view of their industry and firm, proved useful in making a significant decision for the company. In particular, value network analysis channeled attention... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2021
- Technical Note
Introduction to Linear Regression
By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This technical note introduces (from an applied point of view) the theory and application of simple and multiple linear regression. The motivation for the model is introduced, as well as how to interpret the summary output with regard to prediction and statistical... 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
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
Even predictions based on an analysis of trends can have a bad name. Beatrice Haurenson, commenting on trend analysis, said: "What did the analysis of 'Trends' pre-2007 tell us?" Tom Dolembo... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
behavioral ethics as the study of systematic and predictable ways in which individuals make ethical decisions and judge the ethical decisions of others that are at odds with intuition and the benefits of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel