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  • 31 Jul 2023
  • News

Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange

By: Benjamin Edelman and Bill Woodcock
Canadian Internet access is heavily and unnecessarily dependent upon foreign infrastructure, especially U.S. infrastructure. This dependence imposes significant burdens upon Canadian Internet users:

* Service prices are higher than would be the case if... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Canada; Privacy; Technology Networks; Rights; Communication Technology; Internet; Ethics; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
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  • 01 May 2020
  • Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Aaron Hancock is a member of the HBS Class of 2021. He serves as Senator for Section H and is the Chair of the Senate Clubs Committee. He is also one of the incoming Co-Presidents for the African American Student Union (AASU). Aaron is originally from Charlotte, NC and... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208083 Cyworld: Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network Harvard Business School Case 509-012 May 2008, the new CEO of Cyworld, a social network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Competing in the Age of AI

Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve used an AI tool like ChatGPT or... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • November 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

NovoCure Ltd.

By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty
Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a promising, novel cancer therapy, just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Technological Innovation; Financial Services Industry
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  • Web

Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

Advancing business as a force for good in the world by helping HBS develop new insights and tools to address key societal challenges Digital Data Design Institute Donors Positioning HBS and Harvard overall as global leaders in reshaping... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

Nineteen years ago, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill wrote the first edition of her book Becoming a Manager, detailing the experiences of several first-year supervisors who were making the daunting transition from star... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

administration. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Get involved in any way you can   Stay engaged. Accelerate financial contributions that you might have made later. Ask where the greatest needs are, and see if you have other ways to offer support, such as opening doors to View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

best uses of technology and other support systems create frontline service heroes and heroines, so leaders use technology to elevate the most important and eliminate the worst service jobs; (7) satisfying... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

leadership, governance, innovation management, the networking of organizations, and social responsibility—as the "single most important development(s) in the area of management in the just-ended decade of the new century."... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 26 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

restaurants, causing consumers to avoid those with bad ratings. Restaurants, in turn, often respond by cleaning up their act, according to an analysis of Yelp reviews, OpenTable reservations, and data from the View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Outcome-Driven Dynamic Refugee Assignment with Allocation Balancing

By: Kirk Bansak and Elisabeth Paulson
This study proposes two new dynamic assignment algorithms to match refugees and asylum seekers to geographic localities within a host country. The first, currently implemented in a multi-year pilot in Switzerland, seeks to maximize the average predicted employment... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Refugees; Geographic Location; Employment
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  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
  • 19 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

Zhu, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School, who details the rise and fall of the information giant in a new working paper. "There has been lots of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by economic thinkers... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

says Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration. “They can’t rely on data scientists alone.” Experiments have come to have an outsize influence within tech companies from Uber to Zillow, which test... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Fast Answer

Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

industry experts to provide industry and company context on public and private companies. Individual account required.  FactSet A comprehensive platform used to analyze financial data from global equity and fixed income markets,... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

quarters of strong revenue growth. James Hoffman, the new Senior Vice President of Human Resources, fears that the chain of success is shifting the company's focus away from effective performance management.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne