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without limitation, analytics and information processing; processing transactions; providing, operating, securing, or administering the Websites or a Service or part of them; providing or updating content for the Websites or any of the... View Details

• 12 Mar 2014
• Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

CEO. I once advised the chairman of a third-generation family business who was having difficulty with his son, whom he had recently named CEO. The new CEO was a decisive leader, smart and capable, with an MBA and a strong academic record. His View Details

• 19 Sep 2016
• Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

managers and policymakers whose actions we study.” The consequence of the lack of relevant research is that the business world—and the rest of the world, for that matter—is losing out on some serious brainpower and analytical reason.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

• August 2023
• Case

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek

Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Customers; Nationality; Learning; Entrepreneurship; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Employment; Human Capital; Europe; United Kingdom; United States

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Groysberg, Boris, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney, and Carolina Bartunek. "Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR." Harvard Business School Case 424-004, August 2023.

• 01 Oct 1997
• News

High Fives

four investment funds with approximately $750 million of capital for private equity investments. Most important thing learned at HBS: “About my own limitations. I'm not a very analytical person, so I got a wonderful framework for looking... View Details

• 18 Jan 2018
• News

The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

analytics, to take the emotion out of the decisions-- all day breakfast was a great example of relying on a very consumer-focused idea. But allowing the analytics and the pilot market, so the test versus control, to highlight the... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

• 23 May 2012
• Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

data-driven, fact-based, analytical decision-making. The problem is that data are only available about the past. If you're trying to be innovative, and you have this data-driven mindset, you can't go forward. So experimenting essentially... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

• January 2024
• Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco

In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry

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Bernstein, Ethan, and Cara Mazzucco. "Winning Business at Russell Reynolds." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 424-704, January 2024.

• 20 Oct 2003
• Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

of the four projects developing high-speed analytical devices for military purposes. In 1951 it introduced the UNIVAC, the first giant commercial computer, but IBM immediately followed with its own 700 computer. IBM's continued dominance... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

• 01 Feb 2002
• News

It's academic. (Not!)

walk through the analytics of each teaching plan collectively as a group. The attention to detail is tremendous." It was this environment and the School's extensive resources that attracted Gilbert to HBS. Formerly a consultant with the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services