Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning. Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1422103326. Available for purchase at the bookstore. There is a required on-line course pack available for purchase at the Harvard Business Publishing website at this URL: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/23455671 This link is also available on LATTE . See last page of Syllabus for course pack contents. Other readings as posted on LATTE site. Learning Goals and Objectives Overview Required
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thinking comes from his deep religious faith, we believe that these are strategies anyone can use. And so we asked him to share them with the readers of HBR. 2 Harvard Business Review July–August 2010 CoPyRIgHT © 20104 HARvARd BUSIneSS SCHool PUBlISHIng CoRPoRATIon. All RIgHTS ReSeRved. foR aRtIcle RepRInts call 800-988-0886 oR 617-783-7500, oR vIsIt hbr.org Before I published The Innovator’s Dilemma, I got a call from Andrew Grove, then the chairman of Intel. He had read one of my early
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MICHAEL BEER ELIZABETH COLLINS Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating in Good Times and Bad There had been several rough quarters at the Engstrom Auto Mirror plant in Richmond, Indiana, a privately owned business that manufactured mirrors for trucks and automobiles and employed 209 people. For more than a year, plant manager Ron Bent and his assistant, Joe Haley, had focused their Friday meetings on the troubling numbers, but the tenor of their May 14, 2007, meeting was different. Both men
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4254 FEBRUARY 9, 2011 JOHN J. GABARRO COLLEEN KAFTAN Jamie Turner at MLI, Inc. “Had I known how hard this job would be, I might have thought twice about leaving the one at Wolf River,” Jamie Turner reflected as he waited for his boss, Pat Cardullo, to arrive at the office on a blustery September morning. At 32, Turner was struggling in his third marketing management position since completing his MBA six years earlier. Only six months into his current assignment at Modern Lighting Industries
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Growing Pains by Robert D. Nicoson “I’m challenged and motivated where I am, and I like the company. You know that. But I’ve got to say I’m interested in the opportunity you’re describing because of the money and the equity position. For those reasons alone, it’s tough to pass by. Let me think about it some more and call you in the morning. Thanks, Les.” That was the extent of the conversation Cyrus Maher, CEO of Waterway Industries, overheard when he came around the corner just outside of Lee
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Spotlight on Big Data Spotlight Artwork Tamar Cohen, Andrew J Buboltz 2011, silk screen on a page from a high school yearbook, 8.5" x 12" Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century Meet the people who can coax treasure out of messy, unstructured data. by Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil 70 Harvard Business Review October 2012 hen Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like a start-up
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Piloting Proctor & Gamble From Decision Cockpits Proctor and Gamble's (P&G) innovation and willingness to invest in new technology allowed the company to streamline how it views, interprets, and gathers information. Implementing the use of technology such as Business Sufficiency, Business Spheres, and Decision Cockpits allows employees at all levels to view and make real-time decisions in the company. Executives use the Business Sufficiency software to make 6-12 month predictions about P&G's
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Week | Pre-class Preparation | Two-Hour Class (Tues. or Wed.) | Thursdays @AFM 211 | May 5 – 9 | * Watch video: “Business Model Canvas Explained,” available @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoAOzMTLP5s * Download and skim pages 14 – 41 of: Business Model Generation, “72-Page Preview,” Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur, 2010. Available @ http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/downloads/businessmodelgeneration_preview.pdf | Operating and Investing Decisions: Business Model Canvas
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CASE STUDY 123 SYNTHESIS 130 LIFE'S WORK 136 The first step in a testy negotiation The rise of women and the silence of men Former Irish president Maiy Robinson on wielding influence »(ähoiit authority Managing Your Professional Growth hbr.org MANAGING YOURSELF Know what really motivates you. by Heidi Grant Halvorson and E. Tory Higgins n n what kinds of situations are you most effective? What factors strengthen—or U undermine—your motivation? People answer these
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