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- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector By: Henderson, Rebecca Abstract—The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
the company's bottom line, as well as the environmental or social impacts of one or more of its value chain partners. Theatre 3 encompasses programs targeted at fundamentally changing the business's ecosystem. This transformation is...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
data science (2) get comfortable using Python and SQL for data analysis and (3) meet other HBSers interested in data science. Yuki Yaguchi (MBA 2021): My goal over the summer was to learn practical data science skills to a level that I...
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- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Working PapersOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination (revised) Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Phenomenological assumptions—assumptions about the fundamental qualities of...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
track of what versions and fixes have been applied is as fundamental to digital security management as keeping an accurate inventory of physical assets is to plant management. We're not saying that this is easy—software configurations...
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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
return on investment? Why don’t business performance metrics encompass the value of human assets? Fundamental questions like those can get lost in news headlines and in the normal course of business. Welcome to the Managing the Future of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
affordable care. But what this data suggests is that the breadth of care as a factor in determining who works where and how productive they are is so substantial that any solution to these fundamental demographic phenomena is going to...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general managers but not as entrepreneurs. His...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human...
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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/ebay-partner-network-d/an/914016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-436 Multi-Sided Platforms: Foundations and Strategy This note offers an analysis of four View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
venture, but the coalition was fundamentally unstable. Quadir was facing roadblocks no matter which way he turned in his quest to assemble the venture. He came to a point where the rational decision seemed to be to abandon the venture and...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
about this is the “we should” and “I shouldn’t” projects—those tasks that are, again, on someone’s to-do list saying, “We should really write this article, but we don’t have enough hours in the day.” Or “I shouldn’t be the one doing this data View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
It ended up being the best revenue-generating idea Bing ever had, worth $100 million. That experience illustrates why it’s critical to adopt an “experiment with everything” approach, say Kohavi, the head of the Analysis &...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
similar companies move from segment-and-account or product-and-service-level analysis into the greater detail offered at the order level. By and large, those companies that devoted themselves to the effort were richly rewarded. The order...
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by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
had analyzed where in the “farm to fork” value chain product was wasted. This analysis showed that very little was wasted within areas of the value chain directly controlled by Unilever, and most occurred either upstream with its...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
as weather information, for analysis and communication by private companies. Stimulate private sector investor interest and capability for public-private partnerships. Mount a series of convenings across the country. Develop toolkits and...
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- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
technologies in the U.S. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital investment model, our analysis highlights a number of structural challenges related to venture capital (VC)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Print View - Course Catalog
discussions to develop a comprehensive framework that integrates strategy and financial analysis, and applies this framework to fundamental analysis and valuation. The first half of the course develops the...
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