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Finding a Time Series of Financial Data in Compustat

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01 Mar 2016
News

Takes One to Know One

Relations team in supporting and enabling our alumni and the School to continue making a difference in the world.” Cahill previously headed Alumni Marketing and Communications and Alumni Clubs and Associations within External Relations. She has worked with many... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

to be more active and independent.” A social computing design Yiling Chen, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at SEAS, talked about social computing, where human creativity is used to accomplish... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

30 Mar 2015
News

Giving back to the city that he calls home

One of the proudest moments for Howard R. Leibowitz (AMP 106, 1990) when he served as director of intergovernmental relations for the City of Boston was to create a computer access center for residents of public housing in Brighton.... View Details

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High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

@Soldiers Field

arm might lift a barbell.” The 229 RCs who signed up for lunch roulette were connected with three perfectly randomized HBS classmates. Hosted by the Student Association and the Digital Initiative, the project used an open source computer... View Details

Keywords: John Shad (MBA 1949); Educational Services

26 Aug 2009
Op-Ed

Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

cumbersome. Each clunker required dealer salespeople to complete 11 forms, the online computer system set up by Citi was slow and sometimes crashed, and extra workers had to be hired to process C4C claims. Only $145 million of $1.9... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto

03 Dec 2001
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

developing products created by hard-to-find customer-centered software engineers. But now Microsoft's proposed settlement of its dispute with an even bigger sumo—government—would involve giving computers equipped with its operating system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles

which technology is moving– from data and quantum computing to the metaverse and blockchain. How do we, as a school and as business leaders, lean into these trends? What are the opportunities?" The desire to produce thought leadership at... View Details

24 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Learning to Code at Business School

consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Why did you want to take CS50? Samuel: I wanted to learn the language of computer science, so I actually knew what software engineers were talking about. Sloan: I took CS50 because I've always had... View Details

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

(MBA 2023) - Lasso optimizes electrochemical carbon removal by building a drug discovery platform, but for the climate - through computational chemistry, electrolyte design, and cell engineering, Lasso will make direct air capture truly... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Surviving Success

cede his chairman role and stay on as CTO. And in March, Computer Associates acquired Wily Technology for what Wasserman describes as “a very nice exit.” “In the end, Cirne wasn’t King,” he says, “but he is still playing a role within the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2013
News

Alumni Books

sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

The idea of attacking core memory in mainframe computers with the 1103 DRAM proved a winner because, despite this product’s problems, it was far more economical to use than the existing alternative. When Intel turned a profit and went... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

modern life." As computer technology emerged in the 1950s, initial reactions in the Bulletin were mixed. "One of the most dramatic developments in the business world is the growth of automatic data processing," wrote a faculty member in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

16 Nov 2011
News

Are Humans Cost-Effective?

English. But it needed all synapses firing to fend off the flesh-and-blood HBS team (MIT finished a distant third). Named after IBM patriarch Thomas J. Watson, this Watson is endowed with a canned male voice that recalls the creepy View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

vegetables at the point of sale, improving the speed and accuracy of the checkout. If the benefit is not immediately apparent, make it obvious through advertising and promotional materials. Lesson 2: Make The Technology Easy To Use. Most View Details

Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail

01 Dec 2008
News

A U.S. Turnaround?

them in their native countries. Today, America is the leader in only five product areas: computer hardware, software, biotechnology, aerospace, and entertainment. That is not enough to provide job opportunities for a country of 300... View Details

Keywords: Byron Wien; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

that some giant computers controlled by big corporations and institutions know better than they do about what they will be doing in (the) future and what they'll become They might turn into poor, weak machines themselves , abiding by what... View Details