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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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The HBR Agenda 2011 (Spanish version)
Ariely, Dan; Brown, Tim; Cappelli, Peter; Davenport, Thomas H.; Duflo, Esther; Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio; Govindarajan, Vijay; Gratton, Lynda; Hackman, J. Richard; Ibarra, Herminia; Kedrosky, Paul; Lafley, A.G.; Li, Charlene; Ma, Jack; Manzoni, Jean-Francois; Pink, Daniel H.; Porter, Michael E.; Schein, Edgar H.; Schmidt, Eric; Schwab, Klaus; Shirky, Clay; Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Sutton, Robert I.; Tyson, LaArticle HBS-R1101BKnowledge and CommunicationJoseph E. Stiglitz will be crafting a new postcrisis paradigm for macroeconomics whereby rational individuals interact with imperfect and asymmetric information. Herminia Ibarra will be looking for hard evidence of how "soft" leadership creates value. Eric Schmidt will be planning to scale mobile technology by developing fast networks and providing low-cost smartphones in the poorest parts of the world. Michael Porter will be using modern cost a...Starting at €8.20
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Caroline Regis at Excel Systems (Spanish version)
Mayo, Anthony J.; Roberts, Michael J.Case HBS-917S17Leadership and People Managementoutsourcing. Regis is threatened by the diminution in the role of in-house manufacturing and by the VP for Supply Chain Management at Gemini. The case traces Regis's reactions to the proposal. She seems ready to accede to the organizational politics and support the new strategy, only to change her mind and anger her superiors, who thought she would support the plan. She tries to seize control of the situation and threatens to resign if she is no...Starting at €8.20
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Nature of Analytical Competition: Using Analytics to Build a Distinctive Capability
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.Book Chapter HBS-2193BC-EWhat does it mean to compete on analytics and how can companies move in that direction? This chapter lays out the general ideas around analytical competition, providing a few examples from the worlds of business and sports. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 1 of "Competing on Analytics."Starting at €8.20
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Analytics and Business Performance: Transforming the Ability to Compete on Analytics into a Lasting Competitive Advantage
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.Book Chapter HBS-2197BC-EThis chapter explores the links between the extensive use of analytics and business performance, describing how several highly successful companies have transformed their ability to compete analytically into a key point of differentiation and long-term competitive advantage. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 3 of "Competing on Analytics."Starting at €8.20
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Competing on Analytics with External Processes: Customer and Supplier Applications
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.Book Chapter HBS-2199BC-EBecause externally focused processes require cooperation from outsiders, as well as their resources, managing analytics related to external processes is a greater challenge than managing those related to processes within an organization's complete control. This chapter addresses applications of analytics to external relationships with customers and suppliers. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 5 of "Competing on Analytics."Starting at €8.20
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Managing Analytical People: Cultivating the Scarce Ingredient That Makes Analytics Work
Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.Book Chapter HBS-2201BC-EWhen most people visualize business analytics, they think of computers, software, and printouts or screens full of numbers. What they should be envisioning, however, are their fellow human beings. This chapter addresses the most important factor in making a company analytical: its people. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 7 of "Competing on Analytics."Starting at €8.20
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Artificial Intelligence for the Real World
Davenport, Thomas H.; Ronanki, RajeevArticle HBS-R1801H-EInformation TechnologiesCognitive technologies are increasingly being used to solve business problems; indeed, many executives believe that AI will substantially transform their companies within three years. But many of the most ambitious AI projects encounter setbacks or fail. A survey of 250 executives familiar with their companies' use of cognitive technology and a study of 152 projects show that companies do better by taking an incremental rather than a transformati...Starting at €8.20
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Pioneering entrepreneur Yoshiko Shinohara on turning temporary work into big business in Japan (Spanish version)
Mayo, Anthony J.; Yamazaki, MayukaArticle HBS-F0910ELeadership and People ManagementTempstaff's founder, a pioneering Japanese entrepreneur, wondered whether she would go to jail for launching her business.Starting at €8.20