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Staff Directory | Baker Library

Lisa Clark Conservation Technician for Special Collections Special Collections & Archives Emilie Codega Manager, Customer Engagement Curriculum & Learning Services Ariana Cohen-Halberstam Art Editor HBS Working Knowledge Ariana is... View Details

15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

Pundits and investors spoke giddily of the end of national borders, of markets that spanned the globe and replaced the hefty weight of machines and plants with ephemeral bits of information. This may be true. We do have global markets and firms whose value is based... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

11 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."

Intern at Aurora Flight Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “I was looking for an opportunity where I could use some of the skills I’d learned so far at HBS in terms of [fundamental] business acumen and apply them in an environment that also utilized the existing... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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Soul and Machine (Learning)

By: Davide Proserpio, John R. Hauser, Xiao Liu, Tomomichi Amano, Burnap Alex, Tong Guo, Dokyun (DK) Lee, Randall Lewis, Kanishka Misra, Eric Schwarz, Artem Timoshenko, Lilei Xu and Hema Yoganarasimhan

Machine learning is bringing us self-driving cars, medical diagnoses, and language translation, but how can machine learning help marketers improve marketing decisions? Machine learning models predict extremely well, are scalable to “big data,” and are a natural fit to... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Marketing Applications; Knowledge; Technological Innovation; Core Relationships; Marketing; Applications and Software

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April 2007
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Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms

By: N. Anand, H. K. Gardner and T. Morris

How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Economy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Service Operations; Consulting Industry

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Portrait Project

Paolo Tosato

returning the talents that have been lent to me: I want to do that by breeding love in my growing family, by sharing my knowledge with those it can help, by creating the opportunity for learning for people less lucky than me. I also want... View Details

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Paul Sternhell

run one marathon a year, see Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, track down my family's roots in Germany, build my dream house on a wooded lake in New England. Yet I will always make time to pass on the skills that I have developed and the View Details

07 Jan 2020
News

Models of Success

lack “the recipe”—the knowledge they need to navigate the opaque college-recruitment process and to transition their skills and identity from the sports environment to the work environment. “We want to empower athletes everywhere to... View Details

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

about academic labs as well as private-sector firms that are setting operational and best-practice standards for converting scientific knowledge into commercial applications. For HBS participants, an overriding goal was to gain a better... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

Mar 2012
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Enriching the Ecosystem

outlines an agenda for strengthening the links between key institutions. Leaders, she argues, should focus on four goals: 1) Linking knowledge creation to venture creation to speed the conversion of ideas into market-ready enterprises; 2)... View Details

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Baker Library Strategic Plan, 2024-2025 | Baker Library

ambitions. We serve as trusted advisors to our community and beyond. Continuous Learning We encourage curiosity and intellectual growth. We engage in our community's innovations and knowledge development. We learn from each other and from... View Details

19 Aug 2016
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Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction

and director of client services, is marking nearly a decade in recovery herself. Lionrock’s approach draws on Loeb’s firsthand knowledge of the challenges faced by rehab clients and their families. “Privacy is key,” he states. “The stigma... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Behavioral Finance — Benefiting... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

sets up a theoretical framework for examining today's norms. Right now in the marketplace, the lines between open science, public knowledge, and proprietary knowledge and research are becoming blurred. A lot of firms are publishing... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation

incentives to encourage rapid experimentation. Consider using small development groups that contain key people (designers, test engineers, manufacturing engineers) with all the knowledge required to iterate rapidly. Determine what... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke

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Launch Lab/Capstone 1 - Course Catalog

rigorous system engineering methods to plan, design, develop, build, and test a complex technology-based product/service, integrating knowledge across multiple engineering disciplines. Business Knowledge: The use of business model... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Ideas: Books

Social Partnering in Latin America by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco, Gabriel Berger, Rosa María Fischer, Roberto Gutierrez, Mladen Koljatic, Gerardo Lozano, Enrique Ogliastri, and the SEKN Team (Harvard University Press) Professor Austin and his coauthors (a Social... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Michael Schrader

great adversity to succeed. Second, the school provided deep knowledge into areas like fundraising, strategy, finance, and human resources. Finally, HBS opened up a world of resources to me, including the I-Lab, amazing mentors, and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit; Nonprofit / Government

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Keyne Monson

Although the tables seemingly are reversed, with the child asking the parent a variant of this age-old question, it is a tremendous lesson to me about the need to seek after knowledge and learning at all stages of life. Professional... View Details

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