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  • 16 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018)

inspiring/exciting project or opportunity you’ve worked on? I’ve been very excited to work on a new strategy at Social Finance – the Career Impact Bond (CIB). This represents a new, student-friendly way to finance education and training... View Details
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About Us - Research Computing Services

consider moving your data processing and storage to the HBS computer cluster (aka “the HBSGrid” or “the Grid”). Quick Start Running Jobs on the Cluster Data Storage Database Server (MariaDB) Training RCS team members and partners across... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

commitments to their employees, as they tried to keep them." The study also showed that layoffs and furloughs were less frequent for firms with “sticky costs”—those that are unable to reduce their expenses quickly when revenues decline, often because of sunk... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Angel City Football Club: Scoring a New Model

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller
In January 2024, Kara Nortman, Julie Uhrman, and Natalie Portman, the founders of Angel City Football Club (ACFC) were developing the club’s first three-year strategic plan. Founded in 2020, ACFC had a star-studded investor group, including Portman and celebrities such... View Details
Keywords: Sports; Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Venture Capital; Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles
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  • 2023
  • Other Article

The Harvard USPTO Patent Dataset: A Large-Scale, Well-Structured, and Multi-Purpose Corpus of Patent Applications

By: Mirac Suzgun, Luke Melas-Kyriazi, Suproteem K. Sarkar, Scott Duke Kominers and Stuart Shieber
Innovation is a major driver of economic and social development, and information about many kinds of innovation is embedded in semi-structured data from patents and patent applications. Though the impact and novelty of innovations expressed in patent data are difficult... View Details
Keywords: USPTO; Natural Language Processing; Classification; Summarization; Patent Novelty; Patent Trolls; Patent Enforceability; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science
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  • March–April 2023
  • Article

Market Segmentation Trees

By: Ali Aouad, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira and Ryan McNellis
Problem definition: We seek to provide an interpretable framework for segmenting users in a population for personalized decision making. Methodology/results: We propose a general methodology, market segmentation trees (MSTs), for learning market... View Details
Keywords: Decision Trees; Computational Advertising; Market Segmentation; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce; Consumer Behavior; Marketplace Matching; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing
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  • 26 Apr 2022
  • Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

he also took action, closing all Starbucks stores to provide training to employees on racial bias and inclusion. Looking back, Johnson says that moment in Philadelphia gave him the opportunity to reaffirm the company’s sense of purpose.... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: i-ai] Related Reading 6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery Distressed Employees? Try Resilience View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

school students) managed a $1 million budget, created and implemented a technology plan, and put an arts curriculum in place. At St. Mark's, Crotty realized she needed more business training and, inspired by Charles MacCormack, Save the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 04 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

a mix of open floors, private spaces, and movable surfaces. "Architects have designed our workspaces flexibly so that we can change them and use them in different ways," Bernstein says. "But nobody has trained us on how to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services
  • 20 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

fine with the new policy (most Indian workers are already bilingual, training at university in English), while many Germans found reading and speaking English awkward, making it difficult to express and defend their ideas. According to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 09 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

least likely to seek it out, the researchers discovered. The findings emerge as companies worldwide navigate the complexities of training and acclimating new employees in hybrid or remote work settings. With so much in flux, it might be... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 30 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

have been several. First, innovation in frameworks and methodologies along with trained professionals have provided value-added services uniquely available from the consulting firm. For example, the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

Improved dealer training and quality ensured professional and friendly service. The Perfect Order program, which improved quality for four consecutive years, strengthened Mobil's relationships with commercial and industrial customers.... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

A History of Women at HBS

SIGN ME UP: Registration at Baker Library in 1960 BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS The presence of female students on the HBS campus is no longer a novelty, but a new Centennial year exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center reveals a time in history when the... View Details
Keywords: Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

may not be practical for restaurant dining, utilizing transparent screens or other physical barriers to demarcate table separation, limiting the number of individuals at each table, expanding outdoor seating, health and safety training... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

give them the opportunity to build their businesses.” —Rebecca E. Katz (AMP 193, 2017) Back to top “Lisa Sherman” A successful executive at Verizon, Lisa Sherman is struggling with the decision to reveal her sexual orientation. After attending a diversity View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

operator of solar power generation assets in the U.S.A. Policlinicus Ed Kanalosh, HBS Shuhrat Kuziev, HBS Mark Schupak Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Network of exemplary ambulatory service and training centers in Ukraine. Business... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

everything or giving (workers) only the bad parts of the task,” he says. Companies should invest in peer learning Companies often opt for formal training programs or consulting arrangements with instructors who teach entrepreneurs how to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Doctoral 100 Years - Doctoral

Overview Doctoral 100 Years 1922 Training Men for Teaching Business HBS is authorized by the Harvard University Governing Boards to grant the degree of Doctorate of Commercial Science. 1928 Gragg Awarded First Doctorate of Commercial... View Details