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AI at Work | Working Knowledge

AI at Work Harvard Business School faculty research shows how artificial intelligence can drive experimental agility and innovation, but also reveals reputational risks, data quality pitfalls, and the potential for bias. What does HBS... View Details

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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology

this effort, we will also establish a clear plan for managing our cloud environment in the future to ensure smooth operations. Observability and Cloud Monitoring: We are improving the way we track and manage... View Details

April 2008
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The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project

By: William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu

This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Survey of Industrial R&D conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The dataset constitutes a platform that offers an unprecedented view of... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Patents; Surveys; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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Meyerson is recognized as the operational and financial genius of Electronic Data Systems (EDS). During his CEO tenure, EDS grew from a $200 million consulting business into a $4 billion large-scale systems consulting enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Services

01 Dec 2018
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Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

market and exit opportunity? Or should NextGen Jane choose the tool most likely to be adopted by ob-gyns to manage their patient populations? The Answers: The idealistic answer is to focus on the gynecological disease that affects the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

How will my children learn via Zoom? We interviewed 10 CEOs in July about how they are managing the unprecedented stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then checked in with them again at the end of 2020. The interviewees hail from... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

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Services & Support | Baker Library

classroom, in the library, online, and with our partners across HBS. Help Center Frequently asked research questions and tips. Ask a Librarian Submit your question or set up a research consultation with a member of our team. Research & View Details

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

person to be the steward or organizer of the strategy map. This person ensures that data are continually fed into the map and Balanced Scorecard to keep them refreshed, organizes the monthly report distribution—usually electronically—and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Career Outcomes | Research Associates

This role has helped past employees succeed in roles such as lawyers, data scientists, entrepreneurs, consultants, project managers, and more. We often hear from previous employees that enhancing their abilities in researching, writing,... View Details

18 Jun 2014
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Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

of innovative leadership. At eBay Germany, the authors found examples of how a maturing company like eBay can retain its innovative spirit. For a holiday promotion, a young project manager and his marketing colleagues launched a "treasure... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Sep 2014
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The Changing Nature of Research

The problems facing business and society are increasingly complex. Developing solutions to global challenges requires a faculty adept at field work, cross-sector collaboration, complex data analysis, and intensive laboratory work, as well... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Working World

How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested

taken. But the manager assignment was out of their control, and this meant that some part of the variation in breaks with the manager was also out of their control. Because I’m building off of these... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Mason Watson | MBA

and make what already exists better. Professional goals: I am really interested in pursuing projects related to Machine Learning and Data Science because of this intersection between Statistics and Computer Science. I hope to eventually... View Details

25 Aug 2021
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

challenge. In 2012, she launched the Intrinsic Schools, a network of public charter schools with an innovative approach to the middle school and high school experience. Rather than employ the data from standardized tests and apply it to a... View Details

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

Financial data on US companies is easy to come by—if they are listed on the stock market. More than 99 percent of them are not, presenting a challenge for researchers intent on studying how privately held firms operate. “It seemed natural... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

insiders trade. We conclude managers do not fully disclose their private information and instead message to shareholders and analysts something of opposite sign. The data suggest they may be motivated in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

June 2021 (Revised November 2024)
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MicroStrategy: Accounting for Cryptocurrency

By: Jonas Heese and Annelena Lobb

On February 15, 2021, Alina Moss, an analyst who covered the technology company MicroStrategy, pondered a rise in MicroStrategy’s share price. Moss had dialed into the company earnings call. When it ended, Moss had more questions than answers. MicroStrategy had... View Details

Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Share Price; Electronic Commerce; Intangible Assets; Assets; Accounting; Financial Statements; Financial Management; Financial Reporting; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce

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26 Feb 2018
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Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space using View Details

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

knowledge workers confronted with a barrage of data and distractions delivered by new information technologies? A reluctance on the part of managers to relinquish "ownership" over activities and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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