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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
type of board opportunity that interests you Seek out CEOs, board members, organizational leaders, and investors who could be helpful. Then, develop a strategy to connect with them (through industry meetings, View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
found out about the Audiotext hotline. The technology for the hotline was fairly limited, but a person could call in and get prerecorded information about being gay at a time when there was nowhere to go for...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has...
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Careers Blog
Content Type Content Type Alumni Interviews Expert Interviews HBS Career Journeys HBS Working Knowledge Industry Resources Programs & Events Resources & Tips Filters Read posts from Author Alumni Author Baker Library Author Career &...
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- 2020
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Is Accounting Useful for Forecasting GDP Growth? A Machine Learning Perspective
We provide a comprehensive examination of whether, to what extent, and which accounting variables are useful for improving the predictive accuracy of GDP growth forecasts. We leverage statistical models that accommodate a broad set of (341) variables—outnumbering the...
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Big Data;
Elastic Net;
GDP Growth;
Machine Learning;
Macro Forecasting;
Short Fat Data;
Accounting;
Economic Growth;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Analytics and Data Science
Datar, Srikant, Apurv Jain, Charles C.Y. Wang, and Siyu Zhang. "Is Accounting Useful for Forecasting GDP Growth? A Machine Learning Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-113, December 2020.
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Past Issues - Alumni
rewarding business of working in the film industry as it confronts new economic and technological realities. The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could Nearly thirty years ago, Gary Rogers barely scraped...
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- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
noted in The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Harvard Business School Press, 1997), firms innovate faster than our lives change to adopt those innovations, creating opportunities for disruptive...
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- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
private sector that, in highly turbulent environments, overly centralized organizations get overwhelmed by the informational burdens placed on them. So while it makes good political theater to give responsibility to a strongman or...
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- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
stores to 2,227. This surprising resurgence piqued the interest of Ryan Raffaelli, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, who studies how mature organizations and industries faced with View Details
- April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Voatz
By: Mitchell Weiss and Maddy Halyard
Nimit Sawhney scrolled through the tweet stream on his phone, unsure of what to make of it on August 6, 2018 or how to respond. Voatz, the Boston-based startup he co-founded and led, provided a mobile-voting platform. In March of 2018, had successfully piloted the new...
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- February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Schneider Electric: Opening Up to External Innovation
By: Antonio Davila
Schneider Electric competes in tough but stable markets around energy management, automation, and control of infrastructures ranging from homes to production plants. New technologies and new approaches to serving markets are challenging the status quo. To take...
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Keywords:
Corporate Venture Capital;
Accelerator;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Organizational Design;
Energy Industry;
Energy Industry;
France;
United States
Davila, Antonio. "Schneider Electric: Opening Up to External Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 119-061, February 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
- April 2017
- Case
Planetary Resources Inc., Property Rights, and the Regulation of the Space Economy
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Angela Acocella
Planetary Resources, Inc. (PRI) had a bold, some said crazy, vision: to mine asteroids. One might have assumed that developing the right technology would be the greatest challenge facing PRI. But even if the fledgling company could develop and deploy the sophisticated...
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Property;
Rights;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Aerospace Industry;
Aerospace Industry
Weinzierl, Matthew, and Angela Acocella. "Planetary Resources Inc., Property Rights, and the Regulation of the Space Economy." Harvard Business School Case 717-053, April 2017.
- February 2009
- Case
HP: The Computer is Personal Again
By: Rajiv Lal and Cathy Ross
In September 2008, Todd Bradley, executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard Company's Personal Systems Group (PSG), gathered his thoughts before a meeting with his top executives and managers for product design and marketing. On the agenda was a discussion of...
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Lal, Rajiv, and Cathy Ross. "HP: The Computer is Personal Again." Harvard Business School Case 509-010, February 2009.
- 21 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
different markets but using the same technology. Among the findings: Companies were more than twice as likely to end development on a drug if a competitor in the same market using the same technology decided to drop out. When the...
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- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
show that this aggregation of information is not only a leading indicator of violations of rules and regulations, but it’s even a leading indicator of the whistleblower complaints themselves,” Campbell says of the study that resulted,...
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- April 2021
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Distinct Software
By: Das Narayandas, Arijit Sengupta and Jonathan Wray
Distinct Software (disguised name), a global enterprise software company, is at an important point in its growth trajectory where the luster of its mantra of “grow and win at any cost” has dimmed with increasing competition and margin pressures. To help navigate its...
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Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence;
Marketing;
Sales;
Performance Productivity;
Technological Innovation;
AI and Machine Learning
Narayandas, Das, Arijit Sengupta, and Jonathan Wray. "Distinct Software." Harvard Business School Case 521-101, April 2021.
- February 1991 (Revised December 1992)
- Case
Xerox and Fuji Xerox
Describes the growth and development of Fuji Xerox, Xerox's joint venture in Japan, and the evolving relationship between Fuji Xerox and Xerox. Focuses on the technological development of Fuji Xerox, and on the contributions that Fuji Xerox has made to Xerox's...
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Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin. "Xerox and Fuji Xerox." Harvard Business School Case 391-156, February 1991. (Revised December 1992.)
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
of the intriguing findings from our analysis is that electronic and face-to-face interactions are near perfect complements. In other words, people talk to the very same people they e-mail. As electronic collaboration technologies further...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
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Baker Library Policies | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and Requirements chart below.Baker Library Special Collections and Archives is open to all members of the Harvard University community and to visiting researchers. For more information and to plan your visit, please see Special...
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Crunchbase | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
investors. 49 83954 Add My Librarian Item About this Database Search, track, and monitor private and portfolio company data, people and investors. Information also includes deals, contacts and funding rounds. Data provided by...
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