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2023
Working Paper

Feature Importance Disparities for Data Bias Investigations

By: Peter W. Chang, Leor Fishman and Seth Neel

It is widely held that one cause of downstream bias in classifiers is bias present in the training data. Rectifying such biases may involve context-dependent interventions such as training separate models on subgroups, removing features with bias in the collection... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Prejudice and Bias

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2020
Article

Inconvenient Truths: Interpreting the Origins of the Internet

By: Shane Greenstein

A conventional economic narrative provides intellectual underpinnings for governments to subsidize research and development ("R&D") that coordinates risky research to benefit many in society. This essay compares this narrative with the origins and invention of the... View Details

Keywords: Lead Users; Technology Transfer; Internet and the Web; History; Analysis; Research and Development; Governance; Information Technology; Policy

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February 2018 (Revised December 2019)
Case

Rise of the Drones: Identified Technologies

By: Andy Wu and George Gonzalez

The founder and CEO of Identified Technologies, a Pittsburgh-based drone software and services company, faces a dilemma when San Francisco–based DroneDeploy begins to disrupt the industry with its drone software platform. Identified Technologies needs to consider... View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Disruption; Network Effects; Computer Industry; Web Services Industry; Pittsburgh; San Francisco

January 2010 (Revised March 2013)
Case

foursquare

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and David Chen

Co-founders of foursquare are deciding how to respond to competitive threats and scale up the organization. Foursquare was a location-based online service that allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Competitive Advantage; Web Services Industry; United States

January 2002 (Revised July 2007)
Case

Publishing Group of America (A)

By: Jay O. Light, Michael J. Roberts and Taslim Pirmohamed

A small start-up in the publishing business compares three possible alternatives for its new round of equity financing. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Equity; Financing and Loans; Information Publishing; United States

July 1999 (Revised July 2007)
Background Note

Preparing Family Business Cases

By: John A. Davis

Advises students on how to prepare and discuss a family business case. View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Business Education; Cases; Family Ownership; Research

1995
Chapter

Information-enabled Organization Transformation and Outsourcing

By: F. W. McFarlan

Keywords: Information Management; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Change and Adaptation

30 Nov 2017
News

SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier

The beam going up (photos by Ashley Garrett, MBA 1987) The Harvard community marked a major milestone on Wednesday as members gathered along Western Avenue in Allston to celebrate the “topping-off” of the new Science and Engineering Complex (SEC). Led by Harvard... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum

Mark Twain in front of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri (photos courtesy of American Writers Museum) Before he arrived at HBS, Jay Hammer (MBA 1979) was pursuing a PhD in literature at Johns Hopkins. Daunted by the increasingly narrow focus required to complete... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2016
News

The Year in Books 2016

From journalists writing bestsellers to professors penning fables to venture capitalists publishing first novels, HBS alumni have produced more than 80 books this year. Taken together, they show the community’s wide-ranging interests—entrepreneurship, art, Aston... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Brian Stauffer

01 Oct 2000
News

Hawes Hall Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking took place in early June for Hawes Hall, a new classroom building that will be constructed adjacent to the northeast corner of Aldrich Hall, facing Baker Library. Dean Kim B. Clark opened the ceremony by welcoming the Hawes family, including Beverly and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Feb 2001
News

New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

In late November, a distinguished group of HBS alumni, faculty, and friends gathered on campus at a celebratory dinner to pay tribute to the legacy of the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33). A leader of industry and a pioneer in business education, Fitzhugh was one of... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Oct 2012
News

Green Pioneer

Zofnass Photo courtesy Paul Zofnass A longtime environmentalist, Paul Zofnass (MBA 1973) founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) in 1990, after 17 years in finance at Citibank and at Oppenheimer (where he was managing director of investment... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

By: Willy Shih

For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

January 1997
Article

The Internet, Intel and the Vigilante Stakeholder

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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2012
Book

Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications: Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011

By: Peter Coles, Sanmay Das, Sebastien Lahaie and Boleslaw Szymanski

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International ICST on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications (AMMA 2011) held in New York, August 22–23, 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully... View Details

Keywords: Internet; Market Design; Internet and the Web; Auctions; Information Management; Computer Industry

June 2002
Case

Tale of Two Airlines in the Network Age: Or Why the Spirit of King George III Is Alive and Well!

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Describes an airline service incident that ought not to have happened in the network age. Inadequate use of available technology creates service problems. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Information Management; Information Technology; Service Delivery; Problems and Challenges; Air Transportation Industry