Spotlight on Making Your Company Data-Friendly Spotlight 64 Harvard Business Review December 2013 Artwork Chad Hagen Nonsensical Infographic No. 5 2009, digital hbr.org Analytics 3.0 In the new era, big data will power consumer products and services. by Thomas H. Davenport T hose of us who have spent years studying “data smart” companies believe we’ve already lived through two eras in the use of analytics. We might call them BBD and ABD—before big data and after
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A REPORT BY HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW ANALYTIC SERVICES Big Data: The Future of Information and Business Sponsored by Big Data: The Future of Information and Business Executive Summary BIG DATA HAS become a catchall phrase, but at its heart, it offers three challenges for organizations. First, business leaders must deploy new technologies and then prepare for a potential revolution in the collection and measurement of information. More important, the entire organization must adapt
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www.hbr.org Extensive study of the world’s best service companies reveals the principles on which they’re built. The Four Things a Service Business Must Get Right by Frances X. Frei Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 The Four Things a Service Business Must Get Right 13 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration
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pag.: 1 van 13 code: LEV-PORT-art-013-bl Purchasing must become Supply management Bron: Auteur(s): Harvard Business Review, september-oktober 1983 Peter Kraljic Purchasing Must Become Supply Management Peter Kraljic Harvard Business Review No. 83509 SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 1983 HBR Peter Kraljic Purchasing Must Become Supply Management The stable way of business life many corporate purchasing departments enjoy has been increasingly imperiled. Threats of resource depletion
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MULTINATIONAL MANAGEMENT COURSE OUTLINE (2007-09) The globalization of the world economy and the related liberalization of the Indian economy are radically changing the business landscape. The international capital flows into India have increased several-fold since the onset of liberalization; Indian companies are becoming multinationals in their own right--a trend certain to intensify in the coming years. All in all, multinationals are becoming more ubiquitous as an instrument of economic
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Harvard University Extension School Management E-5475 – Strategic Management of Growth Companies Course Syllabus – Spring 2012 November 25, 2011 Course Logistics Day and Time: Tuesday, 7:35-9:35pm Location: Byerly Hall 013 Course iSite: http://isites.harvard.edu/course/ext-23550/2012/spring Instructor: Dave Power 617.694.2472 President, Power Strategy dave@powerstrategy.com Office Hours: Before class and by appointment
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Tue, Sep 28 03:37 PM June, 2009: An Indian woman with an MBA from a US university is interviewed by the CEO of an Indian telecommunications company on a muggy Friday afternoon at its Mumbai headquarters. Realising that she has no telecom experience whatsoever, the CEO asks her to work on a report on the sector over the weekend and email it to him on Monday. The lady does exactly that - and she does it so well that she gets the job. "The kind of research and analysis she did over a weekend was amazing
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Professor - Accounting Information and Management Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Jacobs Center, Room 6227, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 Telephone: (847) 491-2662, Fax: (847) 467-1202 E-mail: c-chapman@kellogg.northwestern.edu SSRN Research Page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=417740 Education HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, BOSTON, MA Doctor of Business Administration degree, Accounting and Management, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Professors
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A R T I C L E www.hbr.org The Core Competence of the Corporation by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work 2 The Core Competence of the Corporation 15 Further Reading A list of related materials, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications Product 6528 The Core Competence
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Kaplan Harvard Business School, Harvard University 1 Paper originally prepared for C. Chapman, A. Hopwood, and M. Shields (eds.), Handbook of Management Accounting Research: Volume 3 (Elsevier, 2009). 1 Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard Abstract David Norton and I introduced the Balanced Scorecard in a 1992 Harvard Business Review article (Kaplan & Norton, 1992). The article was based on a multi-company research project to study performance measurement in companies whose
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