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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
recommendations for developing a strategy for alumni lifelong learning. The group is building on work begun three years ago, as well as gathering current input - including data from the executive education... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
best-selling software package, while watching his wife do their finances by hand twenty years ago. "Computers — especially the ones we were working with in 1982 — are crummy at a lot of things, but they happen to be very good at calculation and View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
of training over 50,000 farmers; the final number was just under 67,000." For some organizations, performance measurement would begin and end with that data point alone. But the MCC takes a much longer view. "Training farmers is an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies to better understand the issues. + ONLINE web-only content Do you see AI replacing the need for humans completely as it’s applied in certain value chain roles in the future? —Ian Grant Smith... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
heavily in quality control and state-of-the-art equipment, a strategy that has helped him fend off competitors. A case in point is a Chinese company that launched a product similar to Aquamesh in 2000. “They tried to invade my market with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas activities than Siemens does in the United States. Indeed, over the last 25 years, the accounting rate of return on inbound FDI to the United States has averaged... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
are likely to find in coming years that the problems borders create are easily solved by forward positioning goods and services. Free-trade zones and special warehouses that preposition products for anticipatory delivery, helped by data... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee drew on recent World Bank survey data on 3,899 Chinese firms. He and HBS professor Tarun Khanna have analyzed the data to find predictive indicators for business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Kepha Partners Blinded by the Dot-Com Bust I looked at Data Domain (Series B) in 2003 and at Splunk (Series A) in 2004. At the time, we had just come through the dot-com boom and bust, and my firm and I were sitting on a lot of challenged... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
innovation becomes clear, and acceptance is the eventual outcome. For patients, movement along this timeline requires a high comfort level with the fact that this new data will not be used against them in any way. Will the recent... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In November 2014, Sony Pictures suffered a massive, high-profile data breach, with hackers breaking in and stealing everything from confidential employee View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
furniture retailers and logistics companies using data OneSource Global Express. Or, learn more about the evolving customer base in Mexico. Delve into ABI/Proquest to read articles about firms like Amazon, Urban Ladder, and Pepperfry that... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
"Today's top management needs to move beyond its focus on strategy that defines a rational product-market position to a sense of purpose that captivates employees' attention and commitment," Bartlett asserts. Managers, he says, "need to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
“We spoke to folks in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a big range of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
think everyone’s at a point where we’ve gotten better at communicating and reading people via Zoom. How would you describe your investment strategy at the moment? Broadly speaking, it’s about making everyday life easier for the everyday... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
companies, who were looking for blockbusters for large markets,” recalls Nate Boaz (MBA 2006), Prize4Life cofounder and board member, who is now managing director of talent strategy at Accenture in Atlanta. The meeting yielded more... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year on the job. Based on six years of intensive field research and data analysis by HBS professor Linda Hill, the book explores the transformation that takes... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
customer experience and low cost? In this book, strategy and operations experts Siggelkow and Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
US history for hundreds of years, so when I read headlines like that, as a consumer and as an Indian American, I’m already skeptical: Why do you think my demographic matters now? We’re doing some data analysis in partnership with... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
system. In August 2020, Mercy Corps handed over the management of the system and its distribution network to the local utility company. (Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps) On a Wednesday afternoon in early August, McKenna is Zooming from her home office with her head of View Details