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  • 09 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

manage newly acquired customers, for whom there is no historical data—something known in computer science as “the cold-start problem.” “People who bought more products at the first transaction, especially those who did so in stores, were... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

Gaurav Singh (MBA 2022) grew up in Varanasi, India. He completed his Bachelor’s of Technology in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from NIT Trichy, India before moving to the US to pursue his M.S. in Electrical and Computer... View Details
  • Web

2.3 Community Standards of Conduct - MBA

premises or at University-sponsored activities; and misuse of library or computer facilities. Illegal, unethical or other inappropriate behavior that is engaged in by a student outside of the HBS community also may be considered, and... View Details
  • 09 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

profession. Finance, insurance, information, and communications have the highest remote-work shares, the authors found. Skills play a role, too. Higher-paying jobs with computer use and education requirements are more likely to offer a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
  • Web

Cash House | About

Emeritus. Cash has been described throughout his career with words reserved for the most special of individuals: pioneer, trailblazer, legendary, game-changer. After receiving his BS in Mathematics from Texas Christian University, followed by MS and PhD degrees in... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

for market manipulation (and) used as payment method for online crime.” Bitcoin does not have a future as a currency, Turnbull said, because of the cost of operating sufficient computers to collectively document every single transaction.... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services
  • 16 May 2024
  • News

On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
  • Research Summary

Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

  • 15 May 2017
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

financial robots, and passing along the savings to their customers. Luis Viceira explains the rise of "fintech" in a new case study. Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires? Danielle Li and colleagues find that computers make... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health
  • 23 Mar 2023
  • News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live... View Details
  • April 2001 (Revised March 2002)
  • Case

Seagate Technology Buyout

By: Gregor M. Andrade, Stuart C. Gilson and Todd C. Pulvino
In March 2000, a group of private investors and senior managers were negotiating a deal to acquire the disk drive operations of Seagate Technology. The motivating factor for the buyout was the apparently anomalous market value of Seagate's equity: Seagate's equity... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Strategy; Computer Industry
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  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

drastic changes in their interactions with consumers. In education, teachers from elementary schools to universities transformed content and delivered it online or through phones. Retailers started to license Amazon's Just Walk Out technology that combines View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Of the total increase, approximately $5 million represented the reinstatement of an assessment waived by the University in fiscal 2021 in response to the challenging economic environment. The other $1 million represented regular annual increases in the assessments.... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can AI and Machine Learning Help Park Rangers Prevent Poaching?

Keywords: Re: Brian L. Trelstad; Computer; Information Technology; Technology
  • February 2024
  • Case

AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup

By: Frank Nagle, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein and Susan Pinckney
The case describes the history of AGENTS.inc. Despite being a small startup, with only four employees, that had never had a funding round, the company boasted an impressive client portfolio including multiple Fortune 500 companies. While AGENTS.inc had been an early... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Small Business; Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Technological Innovation; Copyright; Management; Growth and Development; Market Timing; Ownership; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Entrepreneurial Finance; Computer Industry; Europe; Germany
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  • November 2020 (Revised July 2022)
  • Case

Dell Technologies: Bringing the Cloud to the Ground

By: Navid Mojir and V. Kasturi Rangan
The case tells the story of Dell Technologies and its efforts to revitalize its value proposition and escape a commodity trap by acquiring EMC for $67 billion—the largest tech acquisition in history. It also shows the deeply intertwined connections between a company’s... View Details
Keywords: Value Proposition; Go-to-market; Strategic Positioning; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business Divisions; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
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  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

but not nearly as dramatic as a computer produced in 2000, which runs 10 million times faster than a 1960s' computer. Carr's graph on information technology stands as a subject lesson for Darrell Huff's well-known book How to Lie with... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
  • 11 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

your smartphone and summon a driverless car to take you. And that leaves room for a new, disruptive financial model. Buell envisions the possibility that cars could be sold by the mile, like the usage model of a cloud computing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto
  • 06 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors

like computers in financial models. Behavioral finance replaces these idealized decision makers with real and imperfect people who have social, cognitive, and emotional biases. My work focuses on how the resulting inefficiencies in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna