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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
investors to be better risk managers—and that makes better investors in the long run. We already have the numbers, or the “what,” when we meet with a potential investment. We need to drill down to the “how” and “why.” Only a human can... View Details
- 26 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Video: HBS Dean Srikant Datar Introduces the Case Method Centennial
has withstood the test of time. The case method enables students to learn to interpret and analyze information, consider alternatives, decide on a plan of action, and persuade others about their point of view. Students learn how to learn. To practice View Details
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
turn indicate to what degree operating managers can control customer satisfaction. Essentially, we're looking at the entire operating system and drilling down to determine which factors are most important for driving perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
program also touches on the practices used by academic labs to sustain productivity, drills down into organizational models, and reviews methods to help executives deal with the questions of project prioritization. Managing For The Long... View Details
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Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
have multiple employees. Approximately a third of all alumni founders work specifically in technology, including “tech-enabled” companies in fields such as health care, finance, or retail. Proportion of Alumni Founders working in Tech vs. Non-Tech If we View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
private equity universe is maturing, and in some cases firms are changing how they think about hiring,” says Lindsey Mead. “Every firm has its own set of attributes that it looks for; drilling down to understand the priorities of both... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
hasn't caught up quickly enough with the new practice methods that accompany this very different, modern-day model. I hope we will get there eventually, but right now there is a lag." Drilling down to discover when frontline employees... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
for both customers and producers. After pointing out that "Less is more is probably a great way to be a consumer. If you practice it, you will drill down into your purchase thinking and determine real needs versus discretionary... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
Article Two years ago I participated in a disaster drill at Southwest Airlines. It was a simulation of a Southwest plane crash at the New Orleans airport. As part of the exercise, I boarded a plane in Dallas with Southwest employees... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
million into sixty shares, thirty of which were kept by his owners. “We sold the rest and bought ten for ourselves. We decide on a case-by-case basis how much equity we’ll take of the horse we’re syndicating. The investment side is where you hit it big or you don’t.... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
harder for breweries to fall into bailout loans, which happened to many teams last year, Casadesus-Masanell says. Enhanced graphics include waterfall charts for just about every metric imaginable on a team’s own brewery and its competitors. Teams can View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
being a huge company now has this treasure trove of data, and is really finding out that this stuff is really predictive, as simple as it is,” Minor says. Companies also can drill down into their workforce to look at the salient... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
a towing company in Alabama, a medical services business in Saudi Arabia, a publishing company in Greece, a drilling firm in Canada, and a New York-based broadcasting company, to name a few. Hayes's talk on the second day of the Reunion,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
IS FIRST Drilling down further into the data, they analyzed which factors determine which companies were most likely to be helped or hurt by such ties. First off, McDonald and his co-authors hypothesized that the biggest beneficiary would... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
new research based on patent and trademark data by Harvard Business School professor William Kerr drills down to further identify the probable ethnic composition of U.S. inventors, the industries they influence, and the geographies they... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees settlers, whose number is determined by an annual cap set in advance. These refugees are distributed to 10 resettlement agencies, each of which runs a network of local affiliates that have their own predetermined capacity... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
their professional and personal growth. Users are able to easily sort the content based on their professional or personal interests—such as entrepreneurship, work-life balance, health care, diversity and inclusion, and board governance—and can View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
areas along coastlines, those attempting to grow crops in rapidly shifting climates, those living along the equator as opposed to temperate climes (being addressed by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as this article hits the Internet), and even those... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Turley (PMD 43, 1982) The Brier Patch Petroleum engineering professor Tony Zanatelli signs a summer-job contract to manage the drilling of a 20,000-foot-deep exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico. Energy company MillPet owns the lease... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
To illustrate how Cisco uses these three layers, Cunningham cites a hypothetical example. Assume that for a given year, the average score for product reliability has slipped a bit. Drilling down to the bottom two layers of data, Cisco... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers