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Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health - Health Care

The course provides an understanding of how business can play a significant role in improving the quality of life of low- income individuals and households especially in developing country environments, but also in some developed country situations. View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

the last major consumer packaged goods advertiser to stay with a 15 percent fee, is moving in this new direction. It is sometimes a pragmatic pathway to managing risk, uncertainty, and performance for the long-term benefit of both parties. Advertising has been a... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

17 Nov 2015
Blog Post

What is HBS START Week?

whom they will spend the rest of the year; it’s an exciting day! Initial cases are led by FIELD faculty and are designed to ease students into the structure of a case discussion. Socially, the SA and the START Ambassadors lead a series... View Details

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

the field of vision necessary to help.'" But if that's the case, perhaps the adviser can recommend speaking with someone else more qualified. Other advice-giving mistakes include: Communicating the advice poorly Misdiagnosing a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

into the field so often, so it does.” Develop an algorithm that goes deep. Large firms may be able to design their own in-house machine learning algorithms to employ their AI system. Smaller firms can contract one of the many consulting... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

Baker Library Historical Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral Executive Education... View Details

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

Dean Nitin Nohria 2010–2020 As dean, Nitin Nohria established five strategic priorities to guide the School: innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and integration with the University. Highlights from his time as dean include: curricular... View Details

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

onto the exec team.” "When there's more scarcity and higher demand, that puts a premium on the type of person and on your willingness to pay." That push for gender diversity in senior management could spell an opportunity for women to make a case for higher salaries,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

September 2013
Article

Cultures as Learning Laboratories: What Makes Some More Effective than Others?

By: Elaine Mosakowski, Goran Calic and P C Early

With a mandate to globalize, business school educators have increasingly embraced global service learning as an important technique for creating global mind-sets and enhancing cultural understanding in students. While we applaud this movement from the domestic to the... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

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The Wisdom of Crowds in Operations: Forecasting Using Prediction Markets

By: Achal Bassamboo, Ruomeng Cui and Antonio Moreno

Prediction is an important activity in various business processes, but it becomes difficult when historical information is not available, such as forecasting demand of a new product. One approach that can be applied in such situations is to crowdsource opinions from... View Details

Keywords: Wisdom Of Crowds; Demand Forecasting; Price Forecasting; Forecasting and Prediction; Social and Collaborative Networks; Size; Performance

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01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

came in the field of health care, the firm’s investments now include software, communications technology, semiconductors and electronics, and financial services. With nearly $15 billion under management and over 140 employees, Summit has... View Details

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Business School. 77. Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1949, 2. Contact Baker Library Special Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email:... View Details

21 Dec 2011
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The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

"Michael Porter didn't get to be a giant in the field of competition and strategy by hunting small game." Joan Magretta begins her new book on Harvard Business School's Michael Porter's work by noting that, from the start of his... View Details

Keywords: by Joan Magretta

14 Dec 2016
HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

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Bloomberg: finding people

How do I find information on people using Bloomberg? For a specific person: Type the person's name and hit HELP, then choose PEOPLE. To screen for people: Type PEOP and hit GO for the People /search menu. Fill in amber fields... View Details

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

themselves defined as important. The fledgling project took school leaders on a field trip to see innovative schools. Teachers’ lounges were renovated to turn them into havens for teachers to refuel. Accumulating evidence of benefits won... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Events - Creating Emerging Markets

one-day workshop brought together scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, economics, and management to explore unconventional techniques, sources, and topics that are at the forefront of current historical research on the... View Details

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Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

care delivery thinking, but can also serve as a platform for other efforts by universities to contribute to local or national health care reform. It opens the potential for field projects in which students and faculty work with delivery... View Details

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Delimiters - Research Computing Services

Database Best Practices Delimiters 26ms Word of Caution on Delimiters The field delimiter is the character which splits data or text into separate fields. A field is a column within your database. As an... View Details

March 2021 (Revised August 2024)
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Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Manny de Zarraga and Eric Levine

On September 10, 2001, after speaking at an industry conference at New York’s World Trade Center, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff boarded a flight from Newark to San Francisco. After returning home, Rascoff awoke the next morning to a phone call informing him that... View Details