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12 Jan 2023
News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

aspects of that data might create bias, then you absolutely will not build your algorithm with intentionality.” Ballard decided to field-test his idea on another underserved business population: the fledgling cannabis industry. Good Tree Capital View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

structure in place so these ventures can be financed,” he explains. Sean John Clothing has quickly grown to sales of $200 million and one hundred employees since it was launched five years ago. “It’s our most profitable area,” says... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

18 Jul 2019
News

Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc

launching VisiCalc, the world’s first independent software company and the first spreadsheet program for personal computers. The program came with a $100 price tag, but people were so eager for it that they also bought an Apple II, to the... View Details

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

though they left host photos on the listing pages. In June 2020, Airbnb launched Project Lighthouse, a US-based research effort that aims to identify and measure bias involving names and photos to help the company create better policies,... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

The collaborative, big-picture approach behind Lotus also comes through in Enan’s investment style. “Amal doesn’t look at an opportunity as just 1 + 1 = 2,” says Ahmad Hammouda, cofounder and CEO of Thndr, a Y Combinator–backed investment platform View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

July 2020
Case

King's College Hospital in Crisis

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Financing; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Strategic Planning; United Kingdom

June 2017 (Revised May 2019)
Supplement

Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (B)

By: Doug J. Chung

Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain founded in 1988 by brothers Marcus, Mikael and Fredrik Dahnelius. The company operated 84 stores, all company-owned, located mainly in the metropolitan areas of Sweden’s most popular cities: Stockholm, Gothemburg... View Details

Keywords: Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Behavior; Electronics Industry; Sweden

01 Dec 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS FIELD Program?

a personal and professional setting as you look to work on new projects with peers or enter career recruiting. Through various other team simulations, I learned the importance of setting team norms and establishing a game plan during a Team View Details

January 2024
Case

National Football League and Private 5G

By: Andy Wu, Grant Son and Shuoyu Chen

On September 9, 2021, the National Football League (NFL) designated Verizon as its official 5G partner in a 10-year deal, committed to enhance the experience for NFL teams, players, and fans in stadiums. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “Verizon will help us... View Details

Keywords: Football; National Football League; 5G; Verizon; Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Sports Industry; Telecommunications Industry

February 2022
Case

NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

March 2019
Case

HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion

By: Sunil Gupta, Donald Ngwe and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in 2017 as Onur Erbay, CEO of HOPI, a multi-vendor loyalty platform, is contemplating a critical decision. The case chronicles the origins of Boyner Group, the parent company of HOPI and a major retailer in Turkey, and development of retail and customer... View Details

Keywords: Loyalty Programs; Multi-vendor Platform; Retail; Big Data; Customer Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Analytics and Data Science; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Turkey

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

tree. Johnson (HBS MBA'84) comes to Penney after more than a decade of leading Apple's retail effort, where his innovations included the Genius Bar. Johnson is also credited with making Target chic. This makes his launching of the new... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

27 Oct 2015
News

Sweet Success

couple soon acquired an additional 400 acres of nearby hardwood forest to protect it from development—and thus began a journey that led to the launch of Crown Maple, now a leading US maple syrup producer with a following that spans the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

they're doing and emulate or respond. When Coca-Cola launches a new product or reduces prices, it's easy for Pepsi to identify that. It's easy to go to the board or to your boss and say, “Our competitor is doing this. We should respond.”... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly valuable for those seeking to... View Details

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Dean LeBaron | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

across many stocks with particular characteristics. He launched Batterymarch to bring these concepts to real-world investing and was among the first to use computer models to manage investment portfolios. Dean was also in the vanguard in... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

with the persistent group, Santulli finally said yes. Allard and his partners launched Marquis Jet in January 2002, selling 245 jet cards for an average of $150,000 each during that first year and 1,000 in 2003. As hoped, the company... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation

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News - Research Computing Services

Anyone launching interactive (GUI) sessions using the Grid 3.0 launchers are already using the scheduler to launch work on compute nodes. Users submitting jobs via the command line should use bsub commands .... View Details

07 Oct 2021
News

Planning Ahead

helped him eventually launch his own endeavor, Sound Point Capital, in 2008. Today his firm, which specializes in credit strategies, manages over $28 billion in assets. “I wanted to support the people and the institutions that had made a... View Details

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

Monte-Carlo method. This example also illustrates the use of parfor (parallel for ) loops. In this scheme, suitable for loops could be simply replaced by parallel parfor loops without other changes to the code: hLog = fopen( [mfilename, '.log'] , 'w' ); % Create log... View Details

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