Computers - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

my bet is that 2037 will be very different as well. And this will be due to entrepreneurs, not private equity funds or public company boards." This may be linked, as D. R. Elliott suggested, to the rise in the "knowledge economy" where "thanks to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting

happen using video calls where the background may be the candidate’s home. As remote work has become more common, you may have experienced the distraction of where your colleagues are and what noises you may hear in the background. The same will be true in hiring.... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Apr 1996
News

"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

development, and review in quantitative reasoning, accounting, computer skills, and business writing and logical expression. From January 8 to January 30, they became the first group to encounter "Foundations" - the "sequel" to Essential... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

bunch. I believe the School will stay relevant through its emphasis on interactive learning, and by maintaining its willingness to look ahead and dive into areas for which there are no agreed-upon answers. I am concerned about the tendency to overemphasize the use of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

Sandhill Road was that there was no money in developer tools—but user growth was accelerating, and cloud computing seemed to be changing the world. The founders were friendly and willing to meet occasionally, but they were also staunch... View Details

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

Ultimately, Hawkins believed that Numenta could be a catalyst in creating intelligent machines that would lay the foundation for the next generation of computing with potentially broad ranging commercial opportunities. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

Abstract—Using test data for all children attending Danish public schools between school years 2009–-2010 and 2012–2013, we examine how the time of the test affects performance. Test time is determined by the weekly class schedule and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

and social network processes shape race and gender differences at work by examining the roles of culture, cognition, and emotion in organizations using field experimental, longitudinal, and computational research methodologies. Mobasseri... View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015

expense for the first time. Depreciation is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. The School’s depreciation expense for fiscal 2015 increased by $1 million from the prior year to $34... View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016

by $2 million from the prior year to $22 million. Depreciation The School computes depreciation using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. Depreciation expense for fiscal 2016 increased by $4 million, or... View Details

2020
Book

Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

By: Debora L. Spar

Covering a time frame that ranges from 8000 BC to the present, and drawing upon both Marxist and feminist theories, the book argues that nearly all the decisions we make in our most intimate lives—whom to marry, how to have children, how to have sex, how to think about... View Details

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01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as CEO, he prepares to lead the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

problems, hence the potential improvements from our framework come at essentially limited extra computational cost. We perform numerical experiments drawn from three di erent application areas (portfolio optimization, inventory... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (HBS MBA '03) was excelling at his job—selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals—when the company's 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

publications. For example, "Making the Automatic Factory a Reality," written by a team led by John Diebold (HBS MBA '51), forecasted the role of computers in business and turned into a published classic. "Masers and Lasers," written by a... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

A Conversation with Dean Clark

important initiatives. BULLETIN: There have been a number of obvious manifestations of progress on the technology initiative, including the shift to an Internet-based communications system at the School, the availability of full-motion video in electronic cases, and... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (MBA ’03) was excelling at his job — selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals — when the company’s 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

was ready to do business.— Walter Kuemmerle Murthy took charge of sales, landing Infosys's first contract with a U.S. company—a six-year deal to upgrade the computer system at a large, New York-based textile distribution company. The... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

old existing companies' opinions, they tend to project themselves," remarked Yasunobe. He tried to place the issue in the perspective of a U.S. industrial setting. "If we listened to the leading computer companies in the U.S. in... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

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