Office Hours: Applying Analytics to Human Capital and Talent Management

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October 6, 2010 at 2PM EDT Tom Davenport, Professor at Babson College and IIA Research Director Jeanne Harris, Executive Research Fellow, Accenture Institute for High Performance Jeremy Shapiro, Executive Director, HR Analytics—Morgan Stanley Can you use analytics to better manage your organization’s human capital? If you’ve seen the article on Google in the October issue [...]

Analytics in “Old Europe”

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Professor Thomas Davenport reports on analytics in Europe while delivering talks facilitated by Harvard Business Review and sponsored by SAS.

Intuition vs. Evidence-based Decisions

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Ah, it is as old as the chicken-and-egg debate: when is intuition your best guide and when should data drive your decisions? Enterprise 2.0 guru and Principal Research Scientist at MIT’s Sloan School of Management Andrew McAfee recently weighed in recently on the Harvard Business Review blog: “Human intuition can be astonishingly good, especially after [...]

Making Better Decisions

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Why do organizations continue to make a high number of “bad calls”? Tom Davenport argues that it is, in part, because they’ve failed to reengineer their decision making processes.

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