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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
and also broadening the circumstances in which they arise. We discuss applications to travel reservation systems, payment card systems, marketplaces, rebate services, search engine advertising, and various... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
example, in a February 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of 2,253 adult respondents answered they would not be OK with a search engine (such as Google) keeping track of their View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Albertville, France—but I was sure there were more. Who were they? When I saw a list of about 200 Harvard College Olympians, my zeal to compile a list of HBS Olympians was awakened. I turned to the marvelous search View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
$1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two degrees in aerospace View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
tightly controls its search engine technology that is the core of its advertising profits. In a similar way, Facebook uses open source code to run its site and has recently opened up the design of its data... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
so that volunteers (often customers, but also others) can easily contribute content (opinions and ratings for Zagat guides), "stuff for sale" (eBay online marketplace), behavioral data (Google's search View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
an engineer at Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. I loved my time there and am proud that I played a small role in helping drive the automotive industry towards electrification. Most importantly, I learned... View Details
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
online,” Bashir told Charlie Rose. In her typical relentless fashion, she searched for the perfect partner with the technology savvy to build the company. She teamed up with Oskar Bruening, an MIT graduate with vast technology... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
example, revenue from its jet engines is tied to reduced downtime and miles flown over the course of a year. After just three years, GE is generating more than $1.5 billion in incremental income with digitally enabled, outcomes-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
MORE Listen to Donna Dubinsky explain why we shouldn't fear the Terminator, on the Skydeck podcast Google can identify a dog because the search engine has been fed millions of images of dogs—all labeled as... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
my HBS essay while working in a business facing role. Some soul searching helped me realize that my ideal post-MBA role needed to satisfy the following criteria: Be sustainability and technology focused Challenge me to solve tough... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great potential to make a global impact.” However, that long View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
Field sales was aware of the problem Intel faced, but, according to a sales engineer in the Hauppauge, New York, headquarters of Intel’s Atlantic Region, “the message wasn’t getting through to management on the West Coast.” On November 2,... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
link: http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.28.3.25 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 314-099 Aspada: In Search of the Right Structure for Impact Investing No abstract available. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract—Paid search has become an increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Texas. Users can search on variables such as emission level or health hazard level, rated from 0 to 9, with 9 being worst. By typing in 7, 8, or 9, they can see highest polluters indicated all... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
provide insights for marketers and the advertising industry. Until as recently as last year, for instance, most Internet advertising had been Web-sponsored, promoting firms such as Internet service providers, search View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
listings on the employment-related search engine Indeed.com, usage of “ninja” increased nearly 400 percent between January 2012 and October 2016, according to the company’s Job Trends database tool. While... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
workers with heterogeneous human capital interface with machine learning, relative to the older Boolean search technology. We randomly assign individuals with and without computer science and engineering... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman