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16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

create programs where you're working with younger people in a work-based learning setting,” Fuller says. Those can include apprenticeships, paid internships, co-op programs with community colleges, and other avenues to tap people that often don’t know—or don’t have... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

22 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

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Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

to pause, reflect, and better use your key resource: time! Take a moment today to explore how you spend time and where you might refocus based on your values. Try the new LIFE Matrix tool to discover how you can live your best life. Join... View Details

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Accounting & Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

this course provides a broad view of how accounting contributes to an organization. Students will gain: An understanding of the concepts and language of accounting so it can be used as an effective tool for communication, monitoring, and... View Details

24 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

you ponder whether you want to join a startup or a mature company here are some final things to consider: What tools do you want to add to your toolbox? Will the role allow you to hone skills you already have or add new ones? Who do you... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

teams. Join the new class of ‘10x Founders’ who are building valuable companies faster than ever. Why founders who use AI will replace those who don’t How to design, sequence, and rigorously run startup experiments Tools 10x Founders use... View Details

December 2024
Case

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM): The AI Journey

By: Shikhar Ghosh

In early 2024, Bill Fandrich, Executive VP and CIO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), faced a critical decision about AI adoption within the organization. Fandrich had championed AI implementation at BCBSM. After successfully developing three AI... View Details

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03 Mar 2022
HBS Seminar

Daniela Saban, Stanford

Fortune Tellers

The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who... View Details

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The Toyota Production System: Rules for Activity, Connection, and Pathway Design and Improvement

Researchers have established that Toyota enjoys advantages in cost, quality, lead time, and flexibility when compared to its competitors in automobile assembly. Differences in generating value have been attributed to differences between the Toyota Production System... View Details

2015
Working Paper

Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline.
A first section discusses and derives an... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; Clusters; Economic Policy; European Union; Competition; Industry Clusters; Policy; Economic Growth; European Union

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Research Services - Faculty & Research

have access to dedicated funding and development resources to create customized teaching tools that meet their specific goals. Statistical and data consulting PhD level statisticians are available to faculty for methodological... View Details

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Develop Your Career Vision - Alumni

will help you find the best role for you. CareerLeader CareerLeader —developed by HBS Senior Fellow Dr. Timothy Butler and his cofounder Dr. James Waldroop—is an interactive tool that can help you identify your interests, values, and... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a policy tool that has attracted increased... View Details

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

of where the company currently stands. “When we ask managers to rate the quality of their practices, everyone is an 8 out of 10,” she says. In order to give companies a more realistic view, the researchers have published the data on their their World Management Survey... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Jan 2017
What Do You Think?

How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

bureaucracies do have decision-making responsibilities. Dean Dastvar put it this way: “Bureaucracy, in some form, is not necessarily an evil but rather a tool which can be refined generation after generation There is a need for reform so... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

04 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

aware of the tools available to help them comply with privacy regulation. Ascarza: There is a big focus on documentation. Companies have to be really thorough about recording everything: how they handle data, store it, retrieve it, and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

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Questioning, Listening & Responding - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

or confused discussion Questioning, listening, and responding David Garvin Questioning, listening, and responding are the three basic skills required for leading a participant-centered class. Transcript Three Important Characteristics of Questions David Garvin A... View Details

02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

a neuroscientist, but I can read the science. It’s the same tools as social science—the experiment, treatment, control, human subjects, statistical inference, using the scientific method. Outside of academia, the happiness field has... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

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