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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
possibilities. In 2018, HBS led the development of the online Harvard Business Analytics Program. The certificate program—taught by business, engineering, and statistics faculty from across the University—trains mid-career professionals... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
third are international, and roughly a quarter are ethnic minorities — the School can be a difficult place for these groups to thrive. To its credit, HBS understands that the real value of diversity is not in the statistical percentage of... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
statistics told the full story, so we formed a Diversity Task Force to explore how we can expand the range of nonprofits we serve and to attract more diverse alumni volunteers for our projects and board.” Phillips says that while alumni... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
losses, at EMRI’s quarterly board meetings he focuses on the organization’s very human bottom line. “We track the number of lives saved. It’s like our earnings per share for the quarter,” Palepu explains. “It’s a very inspiring statistic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
growing numbers of people who live alone? There’s a big difference between living alone and choosing to live alone. The statistics are misleading because they imply that all of those people who live alone are actively choosing to do so.... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
longer—to reach gender equity.” That one, daunting statistic became the impetus for Stark and the HBS Club of Toronto to present a virtual panel discussion, “The Impact of the Pandemic on Gender Equity: Can We Regain the Lost Ground?”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
mishaps. Ian Bund (MBA 1968): I was playing hooker in the middle of the scrum, and [two guys] landed on top of me. I got carted off to the hospital with badly bruised ribs. I needed something to pass the time, so a friend brought over the preparation we had for Monday... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
UC-Berkeley, respectively, whose own research has found that “individuals are often more persuaded by narratives than by statistical evidence.” Kalla and Brookman wrote of their findings last year in American Political Science Review: “It... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
To accomplish that, Margie Yang has focused her efforts on building an operation that relies on best practices and the latest technology for its competitive advantage. One recent HBS grad who works for her, she points out, is using probability and View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
competitive strategy over the past fifteen years. Last fall, Kohlberg taught Analytical Reasoning, a new elective he developed around his research. Associate Professor Anita M. McGahan, with Michael Porter, is working on a series of View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
from something more thorough than the brief statistical reports that were then the typical product available. “We wanted to do research that added value by analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses in long reports that provided an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
owns all of the parties involved in the transaction, it is actually making a $500 profit on each sale.” Sources of statistics cited in this article Page 31 “ $40 billion annually” (Transparency International press release Sept. 23, 2009)... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he dug deeper, spending dozens of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
over a quarter of adults — 27 percent — have a very close family member or friend who has served in the current military effort in Iraq or Afghanistan. And it is not only in combat that so little is being asked of America as a whole. View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
explains aspects of the scientific method, including experimental design, verification, uncertainty, and statistics and also includes sections on planning research, presenting one’s findings in writing, ethics, and the responsibilities of... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
does Charles Darwin, who wrote that cooperative social behavior was a trait of survival and prosperity. Pearlstein ends with a beautiful quote from Robert Kennedy from 1968, that the GNP statistic our country so relies on captures... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
focus.” Wilson switched his course of study from physics to philosophy to math. But he found some direction through Howard Raiffa, a statistics professor who was moving over to HBS to develop a program in what would come to be known as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Professor Allen Grossman and Senior Lecturer John Kim with HGSE professor Susan Moore Johnson Searching for System-Wide Solutions Baltimore City College's stellar education outcomes stand in sharp contrast to those of schools with similar racial and economic profiles.... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
use. NLK: We come at it from a health angle because we know that kids in India are suffering from malnutrition because they get diarrhea, and they get diarrhea because of poor sanitation, and that leads to poor nutrition and they grow stunted. I mean, the View Details