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19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

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

managers and policymakers whose actions we study.” The consequence of the lack of relevant research is that the business world—and the rest of the world, for that matter—is losing out on some serious brainpower View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our Difference Negotiation Mastery emphasizes an understanding of both analytical tools and interpersonal... View Details

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

landscape. Book: http://hbr.org/product/harder-than-i-thought-adventures-of-a-twenty-first/an/10332-HBK-ENG Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization Around Newcomer Self-expression Authors:Cable, Daniel M., Francesca Gino, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

living in San Francisco working at a data science startup as a product manager. I have always gravitated toward technology and science throughout... View Details

22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

July 2024
Technical Note

Introduction to SQL in Python

By: Michael Parzen and Jo Ellery

This note walks through the basics of SQL and how to use this language in Python via the SQLite package. View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science

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12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

within this changing environment?” Yao says. Its role remains significant, according to new research by Yao and several colleagues. Despite spending relatively less, the government funds innovations that really matter to the American... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

courses, two seminars, and two in-person immersions, and can be completed in as little as nine months. How does Business Analytics differ from View Details

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

to the effectiveness of their marketing instruments” Thomas J. Steenburgh, an associate professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School, has developed a new analytical tool that more accurately measures the effectiveness of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

her hometown of New Orleans before moving to Miami. Gibson shifted her focus to cultivating higher-wage jobs in marginalized communities and drew on her background in environmental sciences to form EcoTech... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

2020
Working Paper

A General Theory of Identification

By: Iavor Bojinov and Guillaume Basse

What does it mean to say that a quantity is identifiable from the data? Statisticians seem to agree on a definition in the context of parametric statistical models — roughly, a parameter θ in a model P = {Pθ : θ ∈ Θ} is identifiable if the mapping θ 7→ Pθ is injective.... View Details

Keywords: Identification; Econometric Models; Analytics and Data Science; Theory

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Prineeta Kulkarni

possibilities inherent in the life sciences while simultaneously revealing her limitations. "My entire education was technically intensive and focused on scientific research, not management... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

students have access to the breadth of resources available to students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ( Harvard University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

OKRs From Individual Contributor to Manager - Adapting Your Work Style Hiring Fast and Firing Faster Making Decisions with Imperfect Data Managing Cross-Functional Teams Managing Pivots View Details

15 Jun 2007
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Remembering Alfred Chandler

took on great big topics: the origin of modern American management, the Information Revolution, what will science and technology look like in the 21st century. These were the stuff of his books. Al Chandler... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Ryan Yu

numbers and figures on white paper. One year before HBS, without any coding experience, I stumbled into a data science startup. Confronted by a dark screen awaiting... View Details

21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

by Beijing is unlikely to suffice. Product Positioning in a Two-Dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model: The Role of Quality Costs Authors: Dominique Lauga and Elie Ofek Publication: Marketing Science... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2003
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Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

Japan's Fujitsu; in 1996 they were two and a half times those of its largest competitors, Japan's Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard. IBM had, of course, been the dominant enterprise in the View Details

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

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

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By: Karim R. Lakhani

Can America Invent Its Way Back?

BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008

Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details

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