Analytic - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2019
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Leading Questions

lesson she learned from Professor Boris Groysberg in an HBS classroom: “The most important leadership skills in the future aren’t going to be analytical or diagnostic skills. The thing that will make the most difference is the skill of... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Aug 1998
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Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

Whether matching analytical wits once again with professors and classmates in Aldrich, lunching under the yellow-and-white tents behind Kresge, or savoring chance meetings with long-lost friends, the graduates and guests who returned to... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Jun 2011
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Eye in the Storm

Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido") Harding (MBA ’92) David Miller (MBA ’03) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) Bill Wyman (MBA ’65) Ammara Yaqub (MBA ’05) As turmoil swept across the Middle East, assessing it... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

custom voice system, which means there’s a whole range of small- and mid-sized businesses that are underserved,” Sambvani says. With Slang.ai, he’s offering mid-market companies access to these more sophisticated tools that can immediately route urgent calls to a human... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

opportunities, measuring and analyzing purpose inside organizations, ESG data analytics and strategies, and the role of leadership and governance in corporate scandals and misconduct. Key takeaway: “We are still at the early stages of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes

practice in the use of statistical, accounting, and financial analytic tools. A resident of Westwood, Massachusetts, Hayes sits on four corporate boards, chairs the investment committee at Swarthmore College (his alma mater), and is... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero

farm system, good scouting, shrewd free agent signings, and human judgment are as critical to a team’s success as fat contract offers. “ ‘Money ball’ is in vogue right now,” he adds, “and being here in Silicon Valley, of course we use View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

Street—comparable companies, precedent transactions, DCF, LBO, M&A analysis, and now—IPO analytics and valuation. Using a step-by-step, how-to approach for each methodology, the authors build a chronological knowledge base and define key... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

Scoon: While social enterprises are different in many profound ways in terms of mission and style, to run effectively they rely on many of the analytical skills with which we are familiar. Clearly, the School and its graduates can add... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Books

nature of promising start-ups, the evolution of fledgling businesses, and the societal implications of new businesses. Using a thorough, analytical approach, Bhidé applies more than ten years of intensive research and modern theories of... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond

or public sector positions, giving those organizations the opportunity to use the managerial and analytical skills of a MBA to build capacity. Since the program’s launch in 2002, the City of Boston Mayor’s Office has hosted 13 fellows.... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

19 Nov 2014
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The Power of Yes

change,” he summarizes.) Charged with overseeing a $100 million capital fund drive, Dichter wanted to explore the impulses behind people’s giving—or not giving. He wanted to dig deeper into what he saw as a conflict between the dominant, purely View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

14 Apr 2021
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The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

due to my relationship with Austin. The hardest part is feeling like I am being impactful enough given I work long hours in my current job [director of marketing analytics at Inspire Brands] and am not able to commit as much time as I... View Details

05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

analytical skills she used in both her financial career and in life. Among her friends was Reginald Van Lee (MBA 1984), who introduced her to Lowery Stokes Sims, then curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “I remember her saying,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Mar 2017
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What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights

provides a thorough understanding of the principles of finance — a toolkit for making smart financial decisions. Negotiation Mastery Participants are introduced to analytical tools and interpersonal techniques for dealing effectively with... View Details

22 Sep 2015
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Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda

different factors to be considered. And so bringing a very objective and analytical approach to that, I think, is important and helpful.” (Published September 2015) View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart

feedback from his family and friends. Then he flew out to Denver and spent the day with me. What became very clear is that he did not need a matchmaker. He was still in love with his ex-girlfriend, but she was so different from him that he had come to believe in his... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; marriage; social media; matchmaking; Personal Services

08 May 2019
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Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact

the data analytics team, he brought to the nonprofit his solid background in behavioral economics from Emory University and his financial acumen from his trading days. Agarwal’s goal was to use data and technology to help make the schools... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
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Inside Modern HR

go head-to-head with other corporate functions to bring more analytical rigor to talent decision-making. For example, we can look at our hiring data over the last five years and correlate a college major or a previous workplace against... View Details