Business Analytics - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2020
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The Past Informs the Future of Work

automating local telephone operation by converting to dial phones, it had to grapple with the business and societal impact of dramatically reducing human interface. A century later, artificial intelligence, big data, and advancements in... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

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Vivek Garg

industries. "They bring ways of thinking about organizational issues from a variety of economic perspectives," says Vivek. "Their lessons can be applied to health care as well." Specifically, Vivek wants to accumulate experience in View Details

30 Mar 2015
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Leveraging the power of yes

analytical a donor may be, ultimately, the decision to give is rooted very strongly in the act of giving,” says Dichter, who, as a personal test, ran a 30-day “generosity experiment” during which he said yes to everyone who asked him for... View Details

March 2003
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A Short Note on the AccuFlow Excel Model

By: Jay O. Light

Describes an Excel spreadsheet workbook that facilitates the analysis of AccuFlow, Inc. View Details

Keywords: History; Analytics and Data Science; Cost of Capital; Negotiation; Capital; Business Model; Economic Systems; Machinery and Machining; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Startups; Equity

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01 Jan 2010
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Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986

financial ship as CFO, built the company’s advertiser and publisher group as EVP, and oversaw global business operations as president. Since leaving Yahoo! in 2009, Decker has taken time out from the corporate world to focus on what... View Details

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Awards | Commencement 2025

Awards Awards are given annually in several categories. Alumni Achievement Awards For more than 50 years, Harvard Business School has selected a number of outstanding graduates to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The... View Details

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Abhay Saboo

Attending business school has long been one of Abhay Saboo's ambitions. With his interest in technology, however, he wanted to use his undergraduate education to build a credible foundation for the future. "I did engineering to... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

KHURANA: Creating analytical traction and academic legitimacy for a hard-to-define quality that’s needed now more than ever before. In June, Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria cochaired a two-day, cross-disciplinary colloquium at... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Rob Casper

were able to instruct them, and they were able to learn new operational capabilities. The lesson? You see, you learn, you adjust.” Long-term leadership Rob found leadership so rewarding he looked for a way “to do it longer, not just in short command stints. View Details

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Kayode Ogunro

operations, from entrepreneurship. It provides an overall competence in all management aspects that really makes sense." "At Weston Presidio," Kayode says, "I had seen a lot of companies in similar situations. But now I can see them within a more... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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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

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

study was directed by John A. Deighton, the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The study's principal investigator was HBS research associate Leora D.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

April 29, 2014
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Corporate Reporting in the Big Data Era

By: George Serafeim

Advancements in information technology can improve corporate communication with shareholders, but not through incessant data dumps. Instead, companies will more likely be poised for continued success if they use digital platforms for long-term oriented engagement and... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Reporting; Big Data; Corporate Reporting; Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Governance; Accounting; Reporting; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Accountability; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology; Communication; Financial Reporting; Business and Shareholder Relations

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07 Sep 2021
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Green House

sustainable building. According to the United Nations, buildings and their construction account for 39 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. It was the measurable impact of the work that attracted her. “I had used a lot of analytical tools... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent

United States. Fuller collaborated with labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies—led by CEO Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999)—to identify occupations best suited for the apprenticeship model. One criterion: The occupation must... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Erika Sanchez

With back-to-back degrees in engineering, it’s no surprise that Erika Sanchez was attracted to Boeing. “I presented technical solutions to management teams that had the authority to allocate funds,” Erika says. “I quickly learned that to get funding, I’d have to... View Details

20 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston

business and the environment. Email bei@hbs.edu to learn more about upcoming events. On July 17th, BEI convened students and local alumni on the HBS campus to discuss ideas, trends, opportunities, and challenges at the intersection of... View Details

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Adil Seetal

Before he even made the move from his home in Mauritius to Oxford University, Adil Seetal had already established his major: engineering. While he liked the analytical part of engineering, Adil "missed the interaction with people. I... View Details

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