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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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Keeping Up with the Quants 7. Working with Quants
Davenport, Thomas H.; Kim, JinhoBook Chapter HBS-7700BC-EKeeping Up with the Quants is a seven-chapter book published in 2013 by the Harvard Business Review Press and written by Thomas Davenport, Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, and Jinho Kim, Professor of Business and Statistics at Korea National Defense University. Written for non-analysts and "non-quants," this book is a guide to summarizing data, interpreting its meaning, and using it in decision-making. The authors explain that a ...Starting at €8.20
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Progress Technologies
Pijoan, D.; Baucells Alibés, ManelCase AD-253-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsA manager wants to estimate the sales volume for next year using a list of current and potential customers. For each customer, he has the possible sale and the probability of such sale.Starting at €8.20
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Auctions and Bidding
Baucells Alibés, ManelTechnical Note ADN-261-EDecision Analysis, EconomicsThis note introduces and analyses the four basic types of auctions: the ascending bid auction (oral or English auction), the descending bid auction (Dutch auction), the first-price sealed bid auction, and the second-price sealed bid auction. The author discusses the optimal bidding strategies for each type of auction under certain assumptions. The note includes an Exhibit that derives the optimal equilibrium strategies in first-price sealed bid a...Starting at €8.20
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Language Exchange Club (LEC)
Baucells Alibés, Manel; de Santiago, Rafael; Malagrida, SergioCase AD-320-EService and Operations ManagementThe case deals with assigning people to jobs. It focuses particularly on how to streamline team creation as effectively as possible. Although the case deals specifically with forming groups in one of IESE's clubs, the methodology may be easily applied to any other type of team.Starting at €8.20
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Dealing with Conflicting Objectives: Multicriteria Analysis and Heuristics
Baucells Alibés, Manel; Lobanova A.Technical Note ADN-271-EDecision Analysis, Economics, Knowledge and CommunicationThe note is divided in two parts. The first part of this note explains how to apply a standard methodology to make explicit trade-offs between conflicting objectives. The second part, explores decision rules or heuristics that people often use to avoid making trade-offs, and discusses the reliability of such rules.Starting at €8.20
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Real Estate Business - Teaching Note
Beusmans, G.; Baucells Alibés, ManelTeaching Note ADT-21-EDecision Analysis, Economics, FinanceThis teaching note was prepared as an aid to instructors in the classroom use of case AD-296-E Real Estate Business.Starting at €0.00
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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