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- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
managers are being held to higher standards when it comes to justifying customer investments. We foresee the need for marketing professionals to develop even greater analytical skill as the field continues to evolve. This should be a very...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Program
Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual
on service delivery Digital officers, technology officers, and individuals building and launching data science and analytics Attend with a team from your organization to foster fruitful collaboration and amplify the program's impact on...
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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online
10$2,500Credential Certificate Courses (3) Business Analytics Professor Janice Hammond Apply fundamental data analysis to real business problems. 8 weeks, 5 hrs/weekApply by June 3$1,750Certificate Economics for Managers Professor Bharat...
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
on investment, 92% strengthened analytical skills (Business Analytics) - From two 2022 surveys of past participants across all HBS Online programs, conducted by City Square Associates. All FAQsFinance and Accounting FAQs What will I learn...
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- March 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Choosing the Right Esports Business Model
By: David Collis and Alexander MacKay
Two esports entrepreneurs must choose on which business model to focus their time and money. After successfully launching an online esports coaching platform, a number of new opportunities emerge in the rapidly growing esports space that now has close to one billion...
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Entrepreneurial Ecosystems;
Business Development;
Esports;
Business Ventures;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Management;
Strategy;
Sports;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Sports Industry;
Video Game Industry;
North and Central America;
Europe;
Asia
Collis, David, and Alexander MacKay. "Choosing the Right Esports Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 719-459, March 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
- October 2013
- Article
How Much to Make and How Much to Buy? An Analysis of Optimal Plural Sourcing Strategies
By: Phanish Puranam, Ranjay Gulati and Sourav Bhattacharya
While many theories of the firm seek to explain when firms make rather than buy, in practice, firms often make and buy the same input—they engage in plural sourcing. We argue that explaining the mix of external procurement and internal sourcing for the same input...
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Supply Chain;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Framework;
Prejudice and Bias;
Mathematical Methods
Puranam, Phanish, Ranjay Gulati, and Sourav Bhattacharya. "How Much to Make and How Much to Buy? An Analysis of Optimal Plural Sourcing Strategies." Strategic Management Journal 34, no. 10 (October 2013): 1145–1161.
- Teaching Interest
Data Science for Managers
By: Dennis Campbell
Data science has become the new language of business. Many roles across the enterprise in finance, marketing, human resources, operations, innovation, and strategy now rely heavily on data science for important managerial decisions. Given the increasing ubiquity and...
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- 2007
- Working Paper
Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Filesharing Networks
By: Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s peers (sharers) who share files and download from each other and f peers (freeriders) who download from sharers but do not contribute files. Assuming that upload bandwidth...
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- March 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems? (with video links)
By: Ranjay Gulati, Jan W. Rivkin and Kelly McNamara
As the case opens in 1999, several key leaders at BlackRock, Inc., then a relatively small asset management firm, are trying to convince CEO Larry Fink and others that the firm should begin to offer Aladdin—its proprietary analytics and trading platform—to other asset...
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Strategy;
Competition;
Information Technology;
Asset Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Gulati, Ranjay, Jan W. Rivkin, and Kelly McNamara. "BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems? (with video links)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 717-484, March 2017. (Revised November 2017.)
- December 2003 (Revised April 2005)
- Course Overview Note
Corporate Strategy: Course Note for Instructors
By: Bharat N. Anand
Introduces students to the concerns that impact a firm's choice of strategy, scope, and organization and assists in three central tasks that comprise the typical decision problem: diagnosing the sources of corporate advantage, evaluating the limits to such advantage,...
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Corporate Strategy
Anand, Bharat N. "Corporate Strategy: Course Note for Instructors." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 704-461, December 2003. (Revised April 2005.)
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Curriculum - MBA
complements case-method learning with smaller hands-on team projects, personal reflection, and immersions. In addition to acquiring specific analytical and quantitative skills, students become acclimated to MBA Program standards of...
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- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Business School Case 613-045 Managing with Analytics at Procter & Gamble Senior management at P&G has put a strong emphasis on using data to make "better, smarter, real-time business decisions." The Global Business...
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Anna Secino
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Application Process - MBA
for innovative thinkers who have demonstrated leadership and analytical skills and want to develop their knowledge and passion to make a difference in the world. After being admitted through 2+2, students spend a minimum of two years...
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- March 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Neck & Neck: Leveraging the Club Neck Information
Commercial Director Prado wonders how to leverage the loyalty card information to prepare the fall 2008 budget. The case discusses the value of subjective and objective information for profit-planning purposes. Spanish children's apparel retailer Neck & Neck uses...
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Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management;
Profit;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Retail Industry
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, Jasmijn Bol, Christopher Ittner, and Katherine Miller. "Neck & Neck: Leveraging the Club Neck Information." Harvard Business School Case 109-070, March 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- October 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
Customer-Centric Design with Artificial Intelligence: Commonwealth Bank
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
As Commonwealth Bank (CommBank) CEO Matt Comyn delivered the full financial year results in August 2021 over videoconference, it took less than two minutes for him to make his first mention of the organization's Customer Engagement Engine (CEE), the AI-driven customer...
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Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence;
Customer-centricity;
Banks and Banking;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Technological Innovation;
Transformation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance;
AI and Machine Learning;
Financial Services Industry;
Australia
Lakhani, Karim R., Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Jin Hyun Paik, and Steven Randazzo. "Customer-Centric Design with Artificial Intelligence: Commonwealth Bank." Harvard Business School Case 622-065, October 2021. (Revised December 2021.)
Pietro Satriano
Pietro Satriano is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. He sits on the boards of CarMax, the largest omni-channel used car retailer in the U.S. and Metro, a large regional grocery retailer in Canada. Pietro advises a number of food-tech startups and acts... View Details
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Who Are We Looking For? - MBA
front-line manager to the thought leader who builds consensus from a position behind the scenes. Analytical Aptitude and Appetite Harvard Business School is a demanding, fast-paced, and highly-verbal environment. We look for individuals...
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- 2017
- Working Paper
Machine Learning Methods for Strategy Research
By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
Numerous applications of machine learning have gained acceptance in the field of strategy and management research only during the last few years. Established uses span such diverse problems as strategic foreign investments, strategic resource allocation, systemic risk...
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Keywords:
Machine Learning;
Natural Language Processing;
Classification;
Decision Trees;
Strategic Decisions;
Strategy;
Research;
Information Technology
Teodorescu, Mike Horia. "Machine Learning Methods for Strategy Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-011, August 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Senior Team Emotional Dynamics and Strategic Decision Making at a Platform Transition
By: Timo O. Vuori and Michael L. Tushman
Based on an inductive case study, we develop an emotional-temporal process model of an incumbent’s
strategic decision making at a platform transition. We describe the senior team’s emotional response to
this transition and the impact of these emotions on their...
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Vuori, Timo O., and Michael L. Tushman. "Senior Team Emotional Dynamics and Strategic Decision Making at a Platform Transition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-054, March 2023.
- March 2022
- Case
Metric
By: Christina Wallace, Rebecca Cink and Maria Lappas
Megan Murday, the founder of Metric, an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) analytics startup, must decide which customer segment to target as a beachhead market. She received positive feedback from a Swiss venture capital (VC) firm, indicating their...
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