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Why Soft Skills Still Matter in the Age of AI | Working Knowledge

Specific skills, including dynamic flexibility and programming The researchers used government data to create a sample of workers so that they could compare patterns among different demographics. The age of 30 stood out as a turning... View Details

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Apr 2009
What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

information moves where needed and not everywhere it can." [This reflects a complaint I came across recently from a senior manager that a problem with the latest generation entering business ranks is that "everyone reports to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

companies students are interested in as well, from startups to high growth to the Fortune 500. Product management continues to be a popular functional area for students eager to use their general management degree to work... View Details

Keywords: Technology

16 May 2018
Blog Post

Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together

tracks and attract more candidates to our campus.” In October, she hosted a joint HBS/MIT recruitment talk that attracted Czapski. “I really liked the types of projects they were working on,” says Czapski. “They have a huge database of real estate View Details

Keywords: Technology

Profile

Eric Sonnier

generator sets in the field and collected feedback from engineers.” He did a number of site visits “and got my elbows dirty, but I wasn’t really passionate about it.” A subsequent internship with Xerox in Rochester, New York, through the... View Details

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From the Dean | Annual Report 2024

The Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) accelerated its efforts to bring research-driven insights about AI to business leaders, convening hundreds of alumni and other practitioners for a groundbreaking AI conference in Klarman Hall last... View Details

01 Mar 2025
News

Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)

South of the border: “Both sides of my family are from northern Mexico; my mom’s side is from Hermosillo, Sonora, just a four- or five-hour drive from Tucson.” On the beat: “I was captain of the drumline in my high school marching band and played in the jazz band with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Student-Profile

Dafna Bearson

that generate productive research collaborations. Taking courses in other disciplines enhances my skills in complementary fields such as data science.” Dafna also appreciates the chance to take ownership of... View Details

10 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

Series C start-up, in New York that provided data intelligence software to large enterprises. She later returned to Europe to join her family investment firm, Atlas Invest, investing in energy companies. Product-Market-Founder Fit During... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

ensuring], for example, fewer days in the hospital.” Triola echoes this argument. “Without any economic data to justify the use of premium-priced treatments over cheaper generics, how are you going to make the case that a hospital system... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

David Grabowski, and David Cutler Abstract— Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) has been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2000
News

VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy

with start-ups such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, Netscape, Excite, and Sun Microsystems. Through the years, Doerr and his partners have invested more than $1.3 billion in 250 technology ventures in the United States, creating companies that have View Details

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

Meanwhile, those who are outside the market generally don't even know what's going on. Q: Are you worried that regulation could stifle innovation in reproductive medicines? A: Actually, I'm more worried about regulation in the stem cell... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Jun 1999
News

Short Takes

companies, turnaround companies, and low-performing companies. But in order to focus on how compensation decisions are made, he garnered most of his data from interviews with the compensation committee chairs from fifty of the sample's... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2009
News

The Fab Four

college savings vehicle acquired by Sallie Mae in 2006. Now a general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, Bussgang represents the firm on the boards of BzzAgent, ClickSquared, DataXu, digitalArbor, Mall Networks, Simple Tuition, and... View Details

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28 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

generally used one in particular), and I reviewed the ratings that were given. More often than not, the ratings would give very limited information on what needed to be done to improve the overall rating, but rather would talk about... View Details

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

Using data from a randomized field experiment embedded in a startup boot camp for early stage entrepreneurs, our findings show that innovators who are more open to experience do generate better ideas, but... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

successful price discrimination, the valuations of consumers who have access to vouchers must generally be lower than those of consumers who do not have access to vouchers. Offering vouchers tends to be more profitable for firms that are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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