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Value Line | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the Microforms Room Media Collection. Alphas & Betas Database AttributesCoverage1997 - CurrentCategories Forecasts & Estimates Competitors Analyst Reports Keywords options convertibles small-cap stocks mid-cap stocks peer groups...
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Economist Intelligence Unit | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
markets forecasts health statistics household income intellectual property labor laws local data macroeconomic data per capita income taxes Languages Multiple Back to top
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- May 2017 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap
By: Ayelet Israeli and Jill Avery
CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic brands and promoting a collective creative ecosystem fueled by the input of big data. Rather than relying on artistic vision, Peck wanted the company to use the mining of big...
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Retailing;
Preference Elicitation;
Big Data;
Predictive Analytics;
Artificial Intelligence;
Fashion;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Marketing Channels;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Analytics and Data Science;
Forecasting and Prediction;
E-commerce;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Retail Industry;
United States;
Canada;
North America
Israeli, Ayelet, and Jill Avery. "Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap." Harvard Business School Case 517-115, May 2017. (Revised March 2018.)
- December 2017
- Case
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
By: Jose B. Alvarez and Sarah Mehta
It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact...
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Scaling Technologies;
Youth Unemployment;
Innovation In Nonprofits;
Agribusiness;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Cash Flow;
Labor;
Employment;
Commercialization;
Problems and Challenges;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Africa;
Nigeria
Alvarez, Jose B., and Sarah Mehta. "International Institute of Tropical Agriculture." Harvard Business School Case 518-034, December 2017.
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Team - Case Method Project
curriculum development for the Case Method Project. He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is author of Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America (2004) and Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
decoupling of the company's resource allocation process from the highest-value strategic opportunities. The answer, some experts say, is to dispense with budgets entirely. The answer, some experts say, is to dispense with budgets entirely—and replace them with a system...
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by Loren Gary
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
If they didn't understand it already, executives and corporate managers have learned one huge lesson over the past couple of years: macroeconomics matters. Interest rates. Exchange rates. Trade deficits. The Gross Domestic Product. Inflation. All of these can affect a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
years." Companies are forecast to spend $98 billion on AI worldwide in 2023 compared to $38 billion in 2019. While the money may be flowing, few companies have figured out the best way to harness AI while navigating new challenges this...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
Setting the right sales targets for employees is a difficult balancing act, with long-term consequences on growth and morale. Setting a target too low, making it easily achievable, might cause an an employee to not put in the effort. Setting a target too high can be...
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by Michael Blanding
- 28 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Channels of Influence
- July 2020
- Case
King's College Hospital in Crisis
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of...
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Keywords:
Hospitals;
Financing;
Health Care and Treatment;
Financial Condition;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Structure;
Transformation;
Strategic Planning;
United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "King's College Hospital in Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 721-356, July 2020.
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
THE YES: Reimagining the Future of E-Commerce with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
By: Jill Avery, Ayelet Israeli and Emma von Maur
THE YES, a multi-brand shopping app launched in May 2020 offered a new type of buying experience for women’s fashion, driven by a sophisticated algorithm that used data science and machine learning to create and deliver a personalized store for every shopper, based on...
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Keywords:
Data;
Data Analytics;
Artificial Intelligence;
AI;
AI Algorithms;
AI Creativity;
Fashion;
Retail;
Retail Analytics;
E-Commerce Strategy;
Platform;
Platforms;
Big Data;
Preference Elicitation;
Preference Prediction;
Predictive Analytics;
App Development;
"Marketing Analytics";
Advertising;
Mobile App;
Mobile Marketing;
Apparel;
Online Advertising;
Referral Rewards;
Referrals;
Female Ceo;
Female Entrepreneur;
Female Protagonist;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis;
Creativity;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Behavior;
Demand and Consumers;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Marketing Channels;
Digital Marketing;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
AI and Machine Learning;
E-commerce;
Digital Platforms;
Fashion Industry;
Retail Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Avery, Jill, Ayelet Israeli, and Emma von Maur. "THE YES: Reimagining the Future of E-Commerce with Artificial Intelligence (AI)." Harvard Business School Case 521-070, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
Chatter, Microsoft's Yammer, and Jive Software's suite of namesake products. The global enterprise social software market is forecast to grow to $8.14 billion in 2019, according to MarketWatch, from $4.77 billion in 2014. “When it comes...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Gennaioli, Yueran Ma & Andrei Shleifer SEP 2020 What does predictability of forecast errors teach us about how market participants form expectations? The authors study the rationality of individual and consensus View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
Airport in two hours. “It wouldn’t go well,” he says. About the author Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting...
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- 10 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values
aware that the long-term economic path for the United States has some challenges. Spending outstrips our forecast for revenue by an enormous amount and that requires some adjustment. We'll have to either raise taxes or cut spending....
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- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
measures of local business activity, such as prices and user ratings, provide a new way of studying the economy. This data can provide indicators that gentrification is occurring, forecast an increase in housing prices, and shed new light...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Energy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the industry, providing current data and forecasts on demand and consumption. 55 1812 World Energy Outlook /citations/world-energy-outlook Covers all sectors of the industry, providing current data and View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
the researchers drilled down into the data, however, they found some marked differences in the ability to forecast success based on the industry of the proposed idea. Expert interest was highly predictive of success in sectors that were...
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
simulation modeling. In a joint program with Harvard Law School, he lectured on marine legal / regulatory policy. His research focused on forecasting economic and environmental consequences of offshore oil and gas development. He was...
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