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- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
happens then? Will it, like the German intelligence in World War II when it was fed massive amounts of both incorrect and correct information by the British, simply grind to a halt? Or will this just create a growing market for thus far...
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by James Heskett
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
Elkins and her students spent considerable time, before and during their immersion in Cape Town, unpacking cultural and contextual knowledge specific to South Africa, including its apartheid legacies. “Making students aware of this contextual View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
these programs often have years of combat arms training and experience (for example, as pilots, ship captains, armor commanders). For decades, many have observed that government program managers and their staffs are intelligent and...
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- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
market or a community for its suppliers.” More practically, working with outside innovators does not mean that all the "keys to the kingdom" have to be given away. Instead, firms can become intelligent about selectively revealing core...
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- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
not see any threat or moral hazard when the service provider makes clear to its customer the potential threat of use or sharing of the information by the intelligence or other authorities. Forewarned is forearmed. . . . As in Buddhist...
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- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: HBSWK with asset generated by Midjourney, an...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Artificial Intelligence Vodafone was operating in the fast-moving telecommunications market where innovation and scale were key. Faced with an onslaught of technological advances—big data, automation, and artificial intelligence—CEO...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
the economy at large absorb adverse economic shocks? Or does the local population decline, stuck in economic decay? The answers to those questions are vital for economists, policymakers, and local governments to decide as new waves of technology, such as artificial...
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- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
industry are human talent and alignment. The work of professional service firms depends exclusively on the talent and intelligence of the people delivering it. Good firms hire the absolute best people and develop them, motivate them, and...
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- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
these things do we want to do which define our role?" Having done that, they then can think more intelligently about how they want to design the board itself and answer questions such as "Who do we want on the board? What...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
Himabindu Lakkaraju, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. The study is one of the first to explore the ethics of repositioning content to influence query results produced by LLM applications such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and other artificial...
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- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
forthcoming The Economics of Artificial Intelligence The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation By: Cockburn, Iain M., Rebecca Henderson, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
huge deficits stretching back and forward for a decade,” according to Kautz. “I believe that an emerging disinflationary era, driven by more intelligent machines and continuing globalization, is why they are right. Most importantly for...
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by James Heskett
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
response to the question, “Which place looks safer?” Those pairwise comparisons were converted into ranked scores. Artificial intelligence algorithms were used to teach a computer to predict scores from image features like shapes,...
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- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
with outspoken banking executives, argued that, “Silence may be both a more eloquent statement and a more intelligent one ” CEOs and other high-profile people “do a service by restraining their knee-jerks and shutting their mouths.” RCD...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
generator for the shareholders. Basically you are managing to create an attractive annuity for shareholders. Lal: It's not just about eliminating the stores, but managing the business to maximize cash-flow. If done intelligently this can...
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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
you by stores, researchers, and credit agencies belongs to those companies, not to you. They in turn resell that information to others. So if our personal information is such an asset, shouldn't we benefit from our asset as well? Why shouldn't View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research Event
Research Trends Discussed at India and South Asia Conference
is important, attendees said, because after all, a glimpse at India’s past can provide a way of understanding where business is heading in the future. Social scientists in a business school are always looking for intelligent ways to...
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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World For the first time in 100 years, new technologies such as artificial intelligence are causing firms to rethink their competitive strategy and organizational...
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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
monetary incentive to join the company more quickly than originally planned. The case provides an opportunity to analyze negotiation strategy and the importance of emotional intelligence and effective interpersonal communication during a...
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Martha Lagace