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How to Design Smart Business Experiments (Spanish version)
Davenport, Thomas H.Article HBS-R0902EStrategyManagers regularly implement new ideas without evidence to back them up. They act on hunches and often learn very little along the way. That doesn't have to be the case. With the help of broadly available software and some basic investments in building capabilities, managers don't need a PhD in statistics to base consequential decisions on scientifically sound experiments. Some companies with rich consumer-transaction data - Toronto-Dominion, CKE...Starting at €8.20
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Competing on Talent Analytics (Spanish version)
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne; Shapiro, JeremyArticle HBS-R1010BStrategyDo investments in your employees actually affect workforce performance? Who are your top performers? How can you empower and motivate other employees to excel? Leading edge companies such as Google, Best Buy, P&G, and Sysco use sophisticated data-collection technology and analysis to answer these questions, leveraging a range of analytics to improve the way they attract and retain talent, connect their employee data to business performance, diffe...Starting at €8.20
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Into Local Streets: Maryland National Guard and the Baltimore Riots
Howitt, Arnold M.; Lundberg, KirstenCase HBS-KS1253-EEconomicsOn April 19, 2015, Freddie Gray, a young African American male, died while in the custody of the Baltimore Police. In response to his death, which occurred less than a year after a similar incident in Ferguson, Missouri, protestors mobilized daily in Baltimore to vocalize their frustrations, including what they saw as law enforcement's long-standing mistreatment of the African American community. Then, on April 27, following Gray's funeral, riots...Starting at €8.20
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Dark Side of Customer Analytics (HBR Case Study)
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.Article HBS-R0705X-EStrategyHealth insurer IFA and grocery chain ShopSense have formed an intriguing partnership, but it threatens to test customers' tolerance for sharing personal information. For years, IFA's regional manager for West Coast operations, Laura Brickman, had been championing the use of customer analytics--drawing conclusions about consumer behaviors based on patterns found in collected data. She came away from a meeting with the grocer's analytics chief, Ste...Starting at €8.20
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Fears and Realities: Managing Ebola in Dallas Epilogue
Howitt, Arnold M.; Lundberg, KirstenCase HBS-KS1161-EEconomicsThis epilogue accompanies case number KS1160. In September 2014, as several West African countries continued to battle a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus, Dallas, Texas emerged as ground zero for the disease in the U.S. This case recounts how, over the course of three days, Thomas Eric Duncan, who had recently arrived in the city from Liberia, reported twice to Dallas Presbyterian Hospital exhibiting signs of illness. Having sent him home after...Starting at €8.20
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When Cultures Collide: 2015 HIV Outbreak in Southern Indiana (B)
Howitt, Arnold M.; Lundberg, KirstenCase HBS-KS1206-EThis case (Parts A&B) takes students behind the scenes at the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) as it struggles to recognize and manage an unusual outbreak of HIV in a poor, rural community. As ISDH learns, illegal injection of prescription drugs, mainly opioids, is spreading the disease. Users are sharing needles and thus exposing the second, third, or subsequent users to infection with HIV from potentially contaminated blood residue. IS...Starting at €5.74
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Managing with Analytics at Procter & Gamble (Spanish version)
Davenport, Thomas H.; Iansiti, Marco; Serels, AlainCase HBS-614S08Service and Operations ManagementSenior management at P&G has put a strong emphasis on using data to make "better, smarter, real-time business decisions." The Global Business Services (GBS) organization has developed tools, systems and processes to provide managers throughout P&G with direct access to up-to-date data and advanced analytics. In addition, GBS has embedded analysts within the business units to work alongside leaders and managers in driving real-time information-bas...Starting at €8.20
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Managing with Analytics at Procter & Gamble
Davenport, Thomas H.; Iansiti, Marco; Serels, AlainCase HBS-613045-EService and Operations ManagementSenior management at P&G has put a strong emphasis on using data to make "better, smarter, real-time business decisions." The Global Business Services (GBS) organization has developed tools, systems and processes to provide managers throughout P&G with direct access to up-to-date data and advanced analytics. In addition, GBS has embedded analysts within the business units to work alongside leaders and managers in driving real-time information-bas...Starting at €8.20
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Fears and Realities: Managing Ebola in Dallas
Howitt, Arnold M.; Lundberg, KirstenCase HBS-KS1160-EEconomicsIn September 2014, as several West African countries continued to battle a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus, Dallas, Texas emerged as ground zero for the disease in the U.S. This case recounts how, over the course of three days, Thomas Eric Duncan, who had recently arrived in the city from Liberia, reported twice to Dallas Presbyterian Hospital exhibiting signs of illness. Having sent him home after his first visit, the hospital admitted him af...Starting at €8.20
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When Cultures Collide: 2015 HIV Outbreak in Southern Indiana (A)
Howitt, Arnold M.; Lundberg, KirstenCase HBS-KS1205-EThis case (Parts A&B) takes students behind the scenes at the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) as it struggles to recognize and manage an unusual outbreak of HIV in a poor, rural community. As ISDH learns, illegal injection of prescription drugs, mainly opioids, is spreading the disease. Users are sharing needles and thus exposing the second, third, or subsequent users to infection with HIV from potentially contaminated blood residue. IS...Starting at €8.20