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- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
Two case examples of successful internal/external agency collaboration are presented. Finally, recommendations are offered for advertisers seeking to bring their internal and external agency resources together and arrive at a more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (B) Maarten W. Bos, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Kyle T. DohertyHarvard Business School Supplement 911-061 The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings determined that a 10% improvement to the Cinematch algorithm would decrease...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
Case 218-095 Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A) Snap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the next three weeks, 14 analysts...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Devices: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Regulators and Innovators By: Gordon, William J., and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract— Software has become an increasingly important component of medical device technology. Through legislation like...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
formulate recommendations on design choices, pricing, and global expansion. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/918005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-052 Liberté, égalité, fragilité: The Rise of Populism...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
graduation from Harvard Business School, I had spent most of my career in technology. I had worked at a software start-up company, and that led to an acquisition, to then I ended up in enterprise software...
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- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
experience with skin tone-matching technology and samples; CareTech (Vivek Agrawal, Felicia Hanitio, and Mili Sanwalka), a personalized learning platform for domestic care workers; and Space Factory (Conan Cooper, Cyrus Hessabi, Malory McLemore, and Aaron Yang), View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
an integral part of their administrative and educational experience. With advisors from Apple Computer and other software vendors, Crum and his colleagues developed a networked client-server computer environment that produced HBS's first...
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Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7 billion in revenues and a market capitalization of $5.1 billion. The company had 41,000 employees in 11 countries, but it was ill-prepared for the increasingly competitive market. With the shift from hardware to...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
hence preventable. The author, a longtime consultant to the VC industry, outlines four recommendations for entrepreneurs sitting down at the table with prospective funders. Understand your leverage. Your leverage is not only a function of...
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Anna Secino
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including the simple matching estimator, in the presence of clustering....
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Coursera, as a business model, has really evolved. There’s three main lines of business. There is an online-degree business, where we offer best-in-class online degrees to the world. These include things like an MBA from University of Illinois, a bachelor’s degree in...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
debt, which is a big and growing challenge in America? Pulsipher: For our students, we introduced the “responsible borrowing initiative” just about five years ago, too, which just informed them about what is the cost of attendance at WGU. And we View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
launching Little Black Library to promote education on racial justice and the Black experience by sharing books; and helping raise capital for Uptrust, a software firm that helps low-income populations navigate the criminal justice...
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- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands of firms. Different firms will design and produce the different components of a complex artifact (like the processor, peripherals, and View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
more likely to be top performers in fields ranging from software engineering to entrepreneurship. Their contributions to innovation—measured in everything from Nobel Prizes to patents—are indisputable. Though its impact is global, the US...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
find yourself as someone with such a deep and distinguished history in working with HR professionals and studying these issues?Bersin: Well, in my case, it was a complete accident. I spent about 20 years in sales and marketing and product management in View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
as an embedded assistant into many different applications. We see just about every software vendor on the planet building these assistants into their interfaces. But, increasingly, I think you’ll see, with the explosion of these...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
social media information and 5.73% when using social media information is used. In both cases, this significantly improves the accuracy of the company's internal forecasts (a MAPE of 11.97%). Combining these empirical results, we provide View Details
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Dina Gerdeman