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3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade - Course Catalog

Wilson This course examines 3 recently developed ‘godlike technologies’ - artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and synthetic biology- that have passed commercial viability and are on-track to change the... View Details

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Paris Wallace

maternal health and create an ability to predict significant outcomes such as birth defects and autism. In an interview with HIStalk.com, Wallace said, “Research shows that 40... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

Everybody lights up. What are the advantages of a purebred dog? With a purebred you can predict size, temperament, and needs of the adult dog. If I show you a golden retriever puppy, you can expect it to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Feb 2000
News

The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum

generation of Internet-savvy consumers, and how today's CEOs can transform their own focus and that of their organizations from "dot-com" concerns to a more sweeping "dot-corp" vision. Next up was Microsoft... View Details

05 Mar 2014
What Do You Think?

When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

Internet (mobile) businesses and users (have) already evaluated the benefits (and) analysts' valuations can be more predictable " Shankar N. Mandapaka added: "The earlier dot.com bubble was due to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

market opened for the first time after the attacks, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter watched the Dow plunge as she began a guest appearance on The Connection public radio program. An expert on how businesses adapt to change, Kanter View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

and the ability to sift through the answers quickly, filtering potential dates by characteristics like age or location. Later came the algorithms, which used the information provided to predict the best... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

the context in which specific CEO candidates were successful. It is all too easy to ignore both the past contextual framework of success and the present one. Are they aligned? Does success in one context View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
News

Cynthia Carroll

for 50 to 100 years and beyond. That’s where our attention lies. When is the economy going to bounce back to business as usual? Oh boy. I’m not going to try to predict that. I will say only that we are... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

predictions of those who warned that a company whose bottom line wasn't the bottom line could never survive, Scher has molded privately-held Working Assets over the past fifteen years into a business with 500,000 customers, 100-plus... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

predicting $134 million in the next fiscal year. As Quelch found in his research, however, the picture is more complicated than medical versus recreational users. "You really have four markets," says Quelch, "medicinal,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

of the hacker style of programming with the need to be more predictable and coordinated in managing software releases. Projects that are more closely coupled with commercial firms have experienced direct... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

populations. eBaker, the research portal for HBS Alumni, provides access to the ABI database where you can find EIU country reports that include historical, current and forecast data for related economic... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

one in which your product had to operate 100 million miles from Earth and perform under a range of conditions which were hard to predict in advance), it was impossible to know up front exactly what form a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

Want to create a high-profit auction? One strategy is to create "auction fever" around your sale by generating lots of hype, having strict rather than flexible deadlines at the end of auctions, and making sure winners View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

Noting that nearly 40 percent of the alumni present had graduated from HBS since 1980, Piccus predicted a lively exchange of ideas between dynamic business professionals and some of the School's leading... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

the Congressional Budget Office predicted that federal incentives would cost the United States about $7.5 billion by 2019. China appears to have hit its ceiling: The central government reduced subsidies on individual cars by 20 percent... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Oct 2002
News

Faculty Research Symposium

and the other focused on cardiac surgery teams. She found that differences in psychological safety indeed predicted a team's ability to learn and cope with change effectively —... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

Considered one of Wall Street's most influential young executives, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA '93) has gained that stature by working hard at what she has always loved. “My father was an investment banker, and I think my interest in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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