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- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
As a polarizing US presidential election nears, moderating controversial content on social media poses a pressing problem for tech giants. But no matter how many employees they hire, lines of code they write, or new content policies they... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
mortgage originations from 2012 to 2018 for loan performance data. They further parsed findings using US Census data and ZIP codes to match loan officers, mortgages, specific lenders, and applicants. The researchers matched first and last... View Details
- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
stagnant US productivity growth. It was from these experiences (plus being based in San Francisco where coding is in the tap water) that I made the switch into software engineering with the goal of working on the toughest industrial... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
typically willing to add you to their options, but this requires a lot of tech to integrate upfront. D2C is expensive, but partnerships or even referral codes to brokers could really lower your CAC. B2B2C feels like nirvana, and companies... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
they make decisions with their gut feel. “Putting it into baseball terms, investors who relied on their gut feel had a lower batting average, but more home runs” She coded all of the interviews to see what investors really look for and... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2171497 Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards Authors:Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
imagined out of India hadn’t happened before. It was assumed that, you know, we are, as a set of engineers, very good at replicating things in a fairly efficient manner—producing code in a very efficient manner—and scaling the computation... View Details
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1.1.1 MBA Program Guidance on HBS Community Values - MBA
1.1 HBS Community Values 1.1.1 MBA Program Guidance on HBS Community Values Welcome to HBS Being a Student at HBS 1. Academic Information & Policies 1.1 HBS Community Values 1.1.1 MBA Program Guidance on HBS Community Values 1.2 MBA Honor View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
Japan’s commercial code allowing companies to choose between a more traditional governance system and the U.S.-inspired committee system. Believing that Sumida’s future was limited if it followed the status quo, Yawata presses ahead with... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
misused to replace higher-paid Americans with entry-level workers from abroad, mainly India. Its use is largely confined to high-tech firms with substantial coding needs. That is the sense of responses to this month’s column. How you feel... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
multiple official languages, at least one of which is strong or weak FTR. Painstakingly going through and coding each company according to the dominant language in its headquarters city, they were able to show CSR scores differed by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
sample of fellowship applications between 2006 and 2011, yielding some 3,500 profiles of social entrepreneurs in their nascence. They coded the profiles with several criteria, including the aims of the projects and their beneficiaries,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
simple as it sounds. “It can be really difficult, physically, to convert office buildings,” Gould explains. “Almost every place in the country has building codes such that, to be a bedroom, it needs to have natural light. An office... View Details
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
Cohen and his coauthors identified the name of the firm and call participants, in addition to matching analysts with the recommendations they gave before the call. Finally, they coded the entire text of each question and answer,... View Details
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
class. The Tech Club, Business Analytics & Data Club, and Code Club provide dozens of courses in software development and data science. As with everything else on campus, finding things you'll want to learn isn't hard. The trick is... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
role of your suppliers’ resources? End users are paranoid about being left with customized code that they are highly dependent upon and no one to turn to if that supplier somehow disappears or goes out of business. Credibility is... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
Lastly, companies can set up some kind of screening process, by which only actual customers can vote, but giving out a voting code attached to products. That way, those voting are more likely to be invested in the actual outcome and may... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
20 percent of the American population," observes Tufano. "What we're talking about is a little replumbing of the IRS code and the Bureau of Public Debt to help the remaining 80 percent of American families to save. That strikes... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
"custom assembly." In the former, managers pick an existing manufacturing system here, a human resources and finance system there, and bring them together to serve the operation's needs. In the latter, bits and pieces of code... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
HiHome Sweet HiHome
sources, and then coded an algorithm to score it.” Parker and Shu then delivered these results to pilot users. It didn’t take long for this new business model to produce results. “One of our earliest beta users ended up buying their top... View Details