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26 Jan 2016
First Look

January 26, 2016

the future with great accuracy, they won't say what will cause an event or why. They'll tell you which magazine articles are likely to be shared on Twitter without explaining what motivates people to tweet about them, for instance. To... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

50 African American HBS students and those running the Harbus when an article appeared in the paper that the Black students considered highly offensive. A resolution of the dispute was made possible largely by the role of Professor... View Details

Keywords: Dean

06 Dec 2018
News

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ago when Jeff Hawkins came across a Scientific American article by Francis Crick—famed half of the DNA discovery duo Watson and Crick. “He wrote this powerful essay about how we have no idea how the brain works, and how we need a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

control pill and in vitro fertilization are booming businesses, each estimated to generate annual revenues of well over $3 billion. The histories of the pill and IVF, therefore, suggest a pattern that may be highly relevant for embryonic stem cell research. Thus, the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

history. But we could still do better. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am working on a broad synthetic survey on the history of German capitalism. It should be an extended version of the article in Creating Modern Capitalism that was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

but comparatively little is known about how or why such transaction networks differ. This article investigates the transaction networks of two large sectors in Japan at a single point in time. In characterizing these networks, our primary... View Details