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- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
its “industrial Internet,” an open global network of machines, data, and people that provides analytics and designs solutions to optimize its customers’ complex operations. “The paradigm is not displacement... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the spark plug behind the School’s recent push into entrepreneurship. And behind Stevenson was Dean John McArthur, quietly determined to steer the School into the tempting but elusive field of new ventures, and willing to back people who... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
have for any other investor. We do what we do because we think it’s awesome, we believe in it, and because our customers like it. It's a powerful solution that really makes people happy. Did you have a viewing party? We were going to, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
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
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
HBS. It was seen, with a slight sneer, as a school for tradesman. But after the war, some of the same people who had been sneering were slinking over and applying. As a new faculty member in 1947, I experienced the full surge of students... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
My particular focus in the public policy area within health care has been focusing on promoting policies around prevention and wellness, the thinking being that, if we can help people to stay healthy—keep them out of the hospital—they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
draw people in, using more social media, employing jargon-free language, and “making everything simple and straightforward, from our registration process to the questions we ask,” says Giusti. Better Data Crunching The investment required... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
home." Having logged so many hours as a performer, he was self-confident and comfortable speaking his mind, and his natural proclivity for numbers and analytics served him well. "I loved business school," he reports. "Analyzing and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
the problems that people face when they have to make decisions." At the same time, Clark went on to note, today's business world is mediated by electronic communication, and information technology offers powerful new tools for enriching... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
The truism “opposites attract” is something everyone has heard, but it’s forgotten in amateur matchmaking. People base their setups on similarities, not complementary differences. That creates commonality but no spark. You may think you... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
cause is pure congestion—too many vehicles trying to occupy the same stretch of road at the same time—but accidents, breakdowns, construction, bad weather, and potholes all take their toll, not to mention time that is spent looking for the parking spaces. “What most... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
In the second-year elective The Moral Leader, students read and discuss a wide selection of literary sources, confronting complex moral challenges and developing the analytical skills and judgment that will be required of them as business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
computing changes the way people use data to make decisions. “We’re seeing more of analytics and big data as a means not just to support the decision a person wants to make, but also as a way to provide... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation
Elective Curriculum, for instance, functions like an R&D lab. In any given year, as many as five to ten new courses are introduced, typically drawing on the leading-edge research of the faculty members teaching them—on topics ranging from data View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
benchmarking to an art museum, a local YMCA, and a philanthropic organization. Alumni volunteer for CAP projects out of their desire to go beyond a simple donation to a good cause. “They want to be involved in the community,” says Jacobsohn. “It’s a great way to meet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
was already awash with sophisticated algorithms employed to match people with the perfect Amazon purchase, Netflix binge, or Friday night date. Why hadn’t anyone applied these models to match people to their... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
to how the firm does business. “We currently fund every good idea we have,” states Yudkoff in the case. “You would think either we could hire more people to generate more ideas, or we could pursue auction deals. It takes time, though, to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
Analytics course for those students without a background in business and economics; more than half of the MBA Class of 2018 completed the program, including a significant number who took it voluntarily. HBX Certificate Programs include... View Details