Filter Results:
(1,177)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,177)
- People (1)
- News (420)
- Research (661)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (209)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,177)
- People (1)
- News (420)
- Research (661)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (7)
- Faculty Publications (209)
- 21 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business
economy? How do you design and implement policies that address long term economic sustainability vis à vis short term growth spurts? At the same time, I had big unanswered questions that were equally unsettling: How can Africa compete on... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
popular in the 1950s and ’60s as a way of sifting through bulging applicant pools. After researchers questioned its reliability, testing fell out of use in favor of personal interviews. Now, with the emergence of big data, machine testing... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Researchers compared the pass/fail records of similar vehicles in both densely populated areas and sparsely populated areas, paying close attention to older vehicles with high mileage—that is, those more likely to need repairs in order to meet emissions standards. The... View Details
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
primarily looking for their entrepreneurial tendencies and collecting a lot of demographic data as well. When I began to sort by gender, I found that the career paths taken by women from HBS were very, very different. It led me to start... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
managing demand - using modern sensors and valves, remote measurement, big data optimization algorithms, mobile apps, and other innovations - is a more powerful way to benefit citizens and businesses than... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
School Case 119-044 JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 919-014 Verisk: Trailblazing in the Big View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
technology to deliver books to children all over the world. “I always think life is this combination of romance and practicality,” he explains. “And the romance was, maybe we can do something really big and really affirming and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
complicated life so much better.” Will the health care sector embrace artificial intelligence? I think it could be a powerful tool for routinizing the practice of medicine. Artificial intelligence digs through mounds and mounds of data... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
hairstylist, a carpenter, or an MBA. My priorities today are significantly different than they were thirty years ago. After I left HBS, I was very focused on developing my skills, learning new things, and surviving in a big corporation.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
expressed the frustration that many people in the biotech industry feel as he clicked through the depressing data in gloomy graphs on a big screen. "It's not a very profitable sector of the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
you open space and data up, about the collisions and interactions that will happen there. For me, the promise of open offices was at least as compelling as the traps. Would everyone bustle with productive collisions, or simply put their... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
number of Harvard Business School Online courses, such as Global Business and Leading with Finance, as well as in a data science bootcamp designed to teach students how to leverage big View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
by research. We know that the quality of the voice is a big driver in how much the end user enjoys the experience,” he says. The solution started to take shape during Sambvani’s tenure at Spotify, where he worked as a View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
here, in one’s work experience, that the solution lies: Women need to build their “experience capital” to level the playing field and maximize their earning potential. The authors weave data on the potential pitfalls with inspiring and... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
across functions, HBS essentially teaches a cross-disciplinary orientation. So, our schools each have many faculty members who embrace a cross-disciplinary approach to research and teaching. This is a big asset, as faculty members from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
and accurate commercial data (to facilitate business forecasting, for example), and a skilled workforce with seasoned supervisors. “That mix of factors does not come standard with every country,” Fields notes. As for government’s role in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
few pennies to that dollar. Lack of social supports, such as child care and paid sick leave, is another ever-present issue the pandemic laid bare. It could explain why some women have elected to leave the workforce altogether: “Women have hit a mental wall,” Thakor... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
2016 Harvard Business Review Press HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company By: Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff Abstract—Find, acquire, and run your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
possibilities." Though developed as a program for Harvard alumnae, Charting Your Course could become a model for similar programs offered to interested women elsewhere. Data collected from women in the reunion classes of 1981, 1986,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
destruction is an evolutionary process, the performance of capitalism must be judged “over time, as it unfolds through decades or centuries.” Here, Schumpeter criticizes the approach of his fellow economists to the study of big business.... View Details