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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
Digital Officer, says the first step is to craft language for request responses that makes residents feel valued, but does not provide false hope their particular request will be accommodated. “We appreciate their (residents’) role; they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
began to improve almost immediately,” he recalls. Looking back, Perkowski maintains that not speaking Chinese hasn’t hindered his ability to work in China. “Not knowing the language forced me to rely on others and learn who I could... View Details
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
despite minor language barriers. “Rugby is its own language; it connects people,” said Rush. “I’ve always said that on-field rugby behavior is policed somewhat by the fact that you have to interact with your opponents at the party... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
language of business and comprises three 30-hour courses: Business Analytics (created by Jan Hammond), Financial Accounting (by V.G. Narayanan), and Economics for Managers (by Anand). For its inaugural program this June, CORe will target... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
development, policy, and implementation in Myanmar, all in virtually the same spirit and language as generated by the stakeholder team. Morrell: So essentially it was adopted? Brunell: Yeah, it was adopted. Morrell: This thing that you... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen. Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother's Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison Mane. Keen is also an active member of the Cherokee Nation, his... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
satisfactory answer for her. No matter what language negotiations are conducted in, understanding the local etiquette can seal the business deal, says Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012). A graduate of a Swiss finishing school, Ho founded Institute... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
atmosphere each year. Jonas Lee: When we wrote our mission statement, it's like it's pretty simple. Like, we're here to decarbonize the atmosphere and we don't need a lot of flowery language around that. It's a big deal. DM: That's Jonas... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
upbringing set the course for his eventually attending HBS. His father, an Italian-born engineering-trained executive with Lockheed Martin who travels one-third of the time, met Amadio’s mother, an American, when he enrolled in an English class in a View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
Sal Khan (MBA 2003) Awarded Honorary Degree by Harvard
of languages and have been viewed more than 1.8 billion times,” as noted in the Gazette announcement. In addition to Khan Academy, the announcement notes that Khan is the author of “The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined” and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
economy. From sartorial taste and food habits to marriage and old age, from music and language to celebrities and censorship, he looks at over a hundred ads to study how the Indian consumer has changed over the past five decades and how... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
a month. Hanna: Right. DiDonna: What I would encourage people to do is substitute out the work intensity and life intensity for intensity in something that you're passionate about and that's meaningful to you. Whether that's an immersive foreign View Details
- 30 Jun 2016
- News
Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
multiple languages on subjects ranging from trigonometry to grammar to organic chemistry. In addition to its recent partnership with the College Board to offer free SAT test prep, the organization also educates students at its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
a dictionary that lists all the words in the English language but doesn't include their meanings." How those words are defined remains to be seen, but most analysts agree that if the 1990s belonged to the Internet, the new decade marks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
get into that behavior pattern and language pattern where-- I'm so knowledgeable, I'm working so hard, I'm trying so hard to reach out to others, and they still don't agree, therefore they must truly be bad people with dumb ideas. That... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
taken up by the population overall. So I think there's a lot we can learn about metaphors and visual language and how we can help people understand a crisis through those tools. That's exactly the same thing that we're trying to do with... View Details