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Giving MBA Program Giving MBA Program Enhance Learning Ensure a transformational educational experience The MBA Program is the cornerstone of HBS’s educational offerings. Ongoing innovation in teaching and learning, as well as the... View Details

22 May 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

former MTV VJ) Sian-Pierre Regis, founder of the online publication Swagger and a frequent pop culture contributor to CNN Headline News and Men’s Journal; Michelle Goldman, a partner at the venture capital firm Ignition Partners, who sits on the board of several View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online

areas: Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society Marketing Digital Transformation There are multiple ways for employees to... View Details

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

the late 1980s, the most successful producers of computers were those that produced and marketed IBM personal computer clones. In 1963 IBM's revenues were three times those of its major U.S. competitors combined. In 1984 they were six times those of its nearest... View Details

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

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Independent Beauty Consultants, and has been instrumental in developing a product portfolio strategy generating innovative skin care, coloring, and fragrance products. She has also driven the development of View Details

04 Feb 2016
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Meet the HBS Tech Club

popular tech courses at HBS include the Online Economy, Launching Tech Ventures, Digital Innovation and Transformation, Product Management 101 and 102, Entrepreneurial Finance (not purely tech), Founders’... View Details

09 Jun 2024
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The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

and be innovative. However, public innovation didn’t seem widespread. Even at that time, I wondered “Why is this the case? When is the right time for the public sector to be innovative? How can innovation be... View Details

March 2024
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Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo

In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details

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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

printing,” Nathaniel Fowler’s advertising manual enthused. 7 By the late 1800s, innovations in chromolithography, including the use of automated steam-powered rotary printing presses and curved zinc printing plates, expanded production to... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim... View Details

24 Jun 2021
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Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

joint degree to make a difference in the world. Gupta shared, “I was in corporate VC looking at technology in agriculture, specifically for the African context which led me to start thinking about innovative models to address food... View Details

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Paul is primarily interested in teaching data science to management students through the case method. This includes technical topics (programming and statistics) as well as higher-level management issues (digital transformation, data governance, etc.) As a research... View Details

Keywords: A/B Testing; AI; AI Algorithms; AI Creativity; Algorithm; Algorithm Bias; Algorithmic Bias; Algorithmic Fairness; Algorithms; Analytics; Application Program Interface; Artificial Intelligence; Causality; Causal Inference; Computing; Computers; Data Analysis; Data Analytics; Data Architecture; Data As A Service; Data Centers; Data Governance; Data Labeling; Data Management; Data Manipulation; Data Mining; Data Ownership; Data Privacy; Data Protection; Data Science; Data Science And Analytics Management; Data Scientists; Data Security; Data Sharing; Data Strategy; Data Visualization; Database; Data-driven Decision-making; Data-driven Management; Data-driven Operations; Datathon; Economics Of AI; Economics Of Innovation; Economics Of Information System; Economics Of Science; Forecast; Forecast Accuracy; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Information Technology; Machine Learning; Machine Learning Models; Prediction; Prediction Error; Predictive Analytics; Predictive Models; Analysis; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Digital Transformation; Information Management; Digital Strategy; Technology Adoption

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

year. And there are mounting signs that her other plans for the neighborhood—a smaller retail-residential site that will house her African-themed online clothing business, a 51,000 square foot live-work building for artists and digital... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

similarly in U.S. and international samples. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53447 November–December 2017 Harvard Business Review The Board's New Innovation Imperative: Directors Need to Rethink Their... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

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

Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

02 May 2017
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First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

moral of this story is not how to do crisis management faster and better in a lightning-fast digital world. It’s that even the nimblest and deftest crisis management response cannot contain the damage of going straight to “call security”... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in 2019. Egyptian View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

(Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Kazuo (Kaz) Hirai becomes CEO and successfully transforms Sony, including a relentless focus on differentiation through "wow" products instead of chasing scale. How should he organize and manage the company's response to digital... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Gil Addo

Gil Addo is CEO and Co-founder of RubiconMD, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CVS Health. RubiconMD’s digital health platform empowers primary care clinicians with access to virtual specialist support to improve patient care. Founded in... View Details

Keywords: Digital Health

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