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01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

York’s Finest from paper logs to digital apps and implemented tools like ShotSpotter, an audio gunshot-detection system, and the Domain Awareness System, a video surveillance platform that uses machine learning to detect potential... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of critical results for priority patients. Aidoc’s products detected over 75% of common acute pathologies visible on CT scans. The company... View Details

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

Exercises Small group decision-making simulation 1-on-1 decision-making simulation Peer feedback exercise 10-12 hrs Module 3 Implementing for the Present and Learning for the Future Detect and diagnose common causes of poor... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

processing company. Business Track, 2013 Tauros Engineering Adrian Ross Alison Flatau David Flatau Tyler Flatau Business Track Winner Tauros Engineering is commercializing a revolutionary technology for the detection of “bridge scour,”... View Details

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

which you can capture whether people are cognitively distracted is to actually look at the errors they make when they are entering data," says Gino, who, as a native of Italy, was in a good position to detect transcription errors. “People... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

apply came from talking to HBS alumni. While each individual had unique experiences and found varying degrees of career success, not one regretted the decision to attend. I never detected a single trace of regret. That might not be the... View Details

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

malfeasance but can cause problems nonetheless. “They are not even designed to detect misconduct, which is part of what makes this work—employees feel much more comfortable talking than they might in a narrower platform,” says Campbell.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

17 Apr 2019
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How Managers Stifle Creativity

our own limited intelligence, it can be very positive. Each one of us has great brain power, but it's limited in certain ways. It's very hard for us to look at massive amounts of data and detect patterns, for example, but machines can, if... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

30 Oct 2017
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Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

learning algorithm, natural-language-processing software to analyze the speed dating conversations. For the third study, armed with their algorithm, they examined data from a 2013 Stanford speed dating study called Detecting friendly,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Nov 2013
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The Real Cost of Bribery

analyze the negative effects of bribery on corporate performance. The results of his study, detailed in the paper Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery, surprised him. As it turns out, the biggest problem with corporate corruption... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

01 Oct 2014
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Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

available (searching for the lost key at night under the street light where the light is better), limiting options to what's placed in front of us, biases regarding information or its sources, undue trust in a complex system whether or not it is understood (such as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 May 2012
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OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

sites in order to evaluate whether the program is effective." Or as Levine puts it: "It's costly to learn, but it's more costly to be ignorant." To Read More: If you'd like to read the researchers' article in Science, "Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Aug 2021
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Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

AVs to drive with common sense may partly entail making them aware of what humans expect of other drivers. For example, an AV that slows down near crosswalks could lead a pedestrian to infer that the AV has detected her, even when it... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

30 Nov 2016
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How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

native genius.” Growtall advised leaders to continually “assess the level of pride” in an organization and “educate and re-educate its employees” about how to detect indicators of creeping arrogance. Olufemi Adeyemi suggested that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

appear. In this session, we will discuss the current Early Prediction – Early Detection – Early Intervention strategy, with its goal of preventing the onset of AD before symptoms arise or progress, and how we are now poised to take a... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Working the Street

the gang symbology that’s so visible to potential employers, so provocative to other gang members, and such a strong reminder of one’s troubled past,” says Henry H. (“Kurt”) Timken II (MBA 1992). A police detective and anti-gang... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

more – we can understand each person’s baseline health, making it easier to detect signals of disease before they fully manifest themselves. It’s a proactive versus reactive approach.” Applying a general management perspective to machine... View Details

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