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- 2019
- Working Paper
Using Technology to Augment Professionals, Instead of Replacing Them, for Innovative Problem Solving
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Felicia Ng, Aniket Kittur and Robert Kraut
While in some technological and scientific areas innovation is flourishing, in others it is stalling, leaving important problems unsolved for decades. One explanation is professionals’ limitations as problem solvers, as accumulating depth of knowledge enhances one’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
it across in a very limited amount of time—typically threeto five-minute learning segments that build on each other. That turned out to be a complicated challenge,” says Mayo, the Thomas S. Murphy Senior... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
exists, and the change needs to happen at enormous scale. Q: So why take the trouble to consider the other sectors if they're so different? A: They're the best examples we have of innovation at the speed and... View Details
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
turns out that long before robots replace workers en masse, if ever, workers will be using AI-based tools to do work, as is already seen with radiologists who employ such tools to interpret X-rays and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
prices.) "Or how," she continues, "do we apply to Asia - which today has significant macroeconomic issues to resolve - what we learned in Latin America in the 1980s when that... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 18 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS after Military Service
industries. The value add of my experiences to the HBS classroom is something I doubted at the outset of RC year, but as time progressed I began to recognize how lessons I View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
CLARK: "It's been a great job and an intense learning experience." In July, after ten years at the School’s helm, Dean Kim B. Clark stepped down to assume the presidency of Brigham Young University–Idaho.... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
and skills can make it harder for these experts to transfer what they've learned to people who know very little about what the experts do," says Ting Zhang, a doctoral student... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
incoming students to meet fellow classmates and learn about social enterprise related opportunities and resources.” SEPTEMBER 4 Doug Scatterday, senior director of Facilities, and Rich Stewart, director of... View Details
- 10 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
What I Did Differently Before Reapplying to HBS
data analytics group at Control Risks, a smaller, more niche consulting firm, he offered to bring me on as his first hire. I jumped at the opportunity to learn how a team is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
different.” Have the Right Mindset From talking with HBS alumni, I learned about many cases in which people seemed to rush headlong into start-ups, hoping primarily to make a... View Details
- 26 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching my 3D-printed prototype like a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
to Hellman & Friedman, LLC, the well-respected private equity investment firm he cofounded (with Tully Friedman) in 1984. Hellman is one of the Bay Area’s most successful investment bankers, generous philanthropists, and athletic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
tasting and flavor pairings, and chocolate decoration techniques. "It involves being a leader in connoisseurship and giving our customers a real, value-added experience by learning and connecting with the category," Koen... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
effectively discuss race, but if they approach it with a sense of openness and learning, they can play an important role in advocating change.” Managers must learn to create safe spaces at work View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations
place where students and faculty can teach and learn together. In order to make this happen, students must build an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect. We have reason to... View Details
- September 15, 2021
- Article
Improving Deconvolution Methods in Biology Through Open Innovation Competitions: An Application to the Connectivity Map
By: Andrea Blasco, Ted Natoli, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Steven Randazzo, Jin Hyun Paik, N.J. Maximilian Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Xiaodong Lu, David Peck, Karim R. Lakhani and Aravind Subramanian
A recurring problem in biomedical research is how to isolate signals of distinct populations (cell types, tissues, and genes) from composite measures obtained by a single analyte or sensor. Existing computational deconvolution approaches work well in many specific... View Details
Keywords: Deconvolution; Methods; Open Innovation Competition; Genomics; Research; Innovation and Invention
Blasco, Andrea, Ted Natoli, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Steven Randazzo, Jin Hyun Paik, N.J. Maximilian Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Xiaodong Lu, David Peck, Karim R. Lakhani, and Aravind Subramanian. "Improving Deconvolution Methods in Biology Through Open Innovation Competitions: An Application to the Connectivity Map." Bioinformatics 37, no. 18 (September 15, 2021).
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
engineering firm. "It was tough in those early years," he says. "I learned that it's easier to bring sound business practices to organizations that have major environmental... View Details
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
learned that it is helpful to host a 'conversation' between my rational/analytical side and my intuitive side." Phil Clark's advice provides a useful close: "If you are seeking the perfect... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett