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February 2022 (Revised July 2022)
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InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (B)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin

Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.].... View Details

Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Subsidiaries; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Africa

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What You Can Support - Alumni

gifts to the HBS Fund provide flexible resources that the School can use immediately to advance core priorities and pursue new initiatives. Although HBS’s endowment provides a strong foundation, it does not cover all of the School’s... View Details

10 Dec 2014
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Multi-sided Platforms

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright; Technology

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Research - Private Capital Project

defined contribution (DC) pension funds' capital flows sensitive to performance? We examine pressures from individual account holders who can switch their pension managers. Using novel data on retirement accounts for nearly 10 million... View Details

March 2008
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Dynamic Markets

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford

The Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School is organized around the hands-on application of financial decision making in a wide variety of capital market settings. The course relies heavily on in-class simulations of a range of market settings where students... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Decision Making; Capital Markets; Competitive Strategy; Profit; Applications and Software; Information; Strategy; Price; Outcome or Result; Curriculum and Courses; Theory

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

bright young entrepreneurs who are given significant resources and freedom to come up with new ideas. It is not uncommon for these new units to be physically located far away View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

its new President Laurie Patton faced the challenge of students calling for divestment from fossil fuels, trustees opposed to it, and a series of day to day administrative challenges that demanded her... View Details

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Hawes Hall | About

Executive Education classrooms and was the School’s first new classroom built in 50 years. The building was constructed during the tenure of Dean Kim B. Clark, who advocated using technology to deepen the... View Details

23 May 2018
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Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, majoring in art history, a subject that helped her “look at things from many different angles,” she says. “My father was interested in technology and impressed... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

19 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Moving to the U.S. With a Family

lunch, I mentioned that we were expecting a baby over the summer. A few weeks after returning to London, we found a package in the mail from one of my new classmates and his fiancée – a perfect newborn sized... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Thai Lee, MBA 1985

& Young's New Jersey Entrepreneur Of The Year, Technology 2013 SHI International reaches $5 billion in revenue Thai Lee has an extraordinary ability to take the long view. After earning a degree in economics... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

(technology, business, policy, law, etc.) to form teams around new technologies emerging out of several of MIT’s labs. Over the course of the semester, students will work with their team to build out the... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

the development side, I am leading a team to design an app to optimize energy usage in buildings. On the business side, I’m looking for players in this space who could be potential partners with technology we can leverage.” As he had... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

college or university. This year's group of 17 Fellows included students from Wellesley College, Princeton University, Carleton College, and Georgia Institute of Technology. New Venture Competition hosts... View Details

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

Operations managers who are insulated from the marketplace must be forced to interact with people in units that are closest to customers. In all of these cases, it's up to senior managers to ensure that individuals work across... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

06 Jul 2020
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The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit

unhappy with customer service, or your prices went up, or a competitor offered a better deal. But if a company lets too many customers show themselves the door, then they’ll waste too much of their time recruiting new customers. “If 30... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Financial Services

18 Sep 2019
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WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

This metric incorporates the benefit of free rent and other concessions they receive from landlords on the front-end without disclosing the future costs the company will incur when these concessions burn... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

and fitting the new product or technology into existing activities. Scenario 5: The Industry Convergence M&a The first four categories involve changing the relationships among a particular industry's... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

31 Oct 2019
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5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

committing with a full-time role. Students chose to spend their summers in a variety of ways. There were many people who worked on their startups continuing their projects from our first-year design class, View Details

30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

tracks the origins of sweetriot from Sarah's formative early career experiences, to the company's launch and beyond as Sarah prepares future products, establishes production channels, and seeks future funding. Sarah was not content to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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