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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

visualization; identify data mistakes or missing components; and, speak the language of data science across themes such as forecasting, linear regressions, and machine learning to better lead your team to long-term success. You will learn... View Details

05 Mar 2025
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Uncertain Terms

After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

changing the field of medicine. In the past several decades, the growing use of artificial intelligence in the health care sector has made it possible for computer systems and diagnostic machines to learn... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

05 Nov 2024
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AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

If a chatbot can Slack convincingly in the boss’s voice, will employees follow orders once they realize the CEO is actually a machine? A novel two-part study finds that an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot trained to write like a... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

23 Jun 2017
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A 'Pillar' of Entrepreneurship

interview with VentureFizz, Wilcox discusses the bright future of the Boston startup scene, Pillar’s focus on machine intelligence and healthcare technology, and his own approach to investing. “Each meeting,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

Brandon Farwell

in enterprise technologies; notably applied machine intelligence (computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning), VR/AR, robotics/autonomy, and space. He... View Details

Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

will collaboratively examine aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) that have an impact on business and society at large. Their research output will include case studies, scholarly publications, and new tools and methods that can be put... View Details

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

authentication do they use? Has the provider’s security ever been successfully breached? What is the company’s stance on privacy? Unfortunately, all clouds are not created equal. What influence will artificial intelligence have on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

06 Dec 2021
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Embracing Digital Transformation

Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan Leaders today, in every sector and around the world, are grappling with the opportunities and challenges of digital innovation—from artificial intelligence to machine... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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The Digital Transformation Of Health Care

The digital revolution has dramatically improved health care delivery and discovery in recent years. Artificial intelligence is enhancing diagnostic machines and enabling wearable medical devices to collect... View Details

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Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

powerful industrial enterprise to which satisfied workers devoted themselves. Fortune magazine, for example—the quintessence of sophistication in graphic design and photojournalism—catered to the elite managerial class, portraying the interaction of worker and View Details

27 Jun 2024
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Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

Himabindu Lakkaraju, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. The study is one of the first to explore the ethics of repositioning content to influence query results produced by LLM applications such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, and other artificial... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

24 Jun 2019
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Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand

mining and exploratory analysis, and familiarized herself with the ins and outs of various machine learning models. Ho took this newly acquired data and analytics knowledge with her to HBS, and, subsequently, landed an internship at the... View Details

Keywords: Technology

24 Jul 2019
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Data-Driven and in Demand

mining and exploratory analysis, and familiarized herself with the ins and outs of various machine learning models. Ho took this newly acquired data and analytics knowledge with her to HBS, and, subsequently, landed an internship at the... View Details

19 Jul 2019
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Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

machine guidance for intelligent surgery. I provided oversight on upstream marketing, technical product development, and clinical / corporate partnerships, which positioned the company to pursue a... View Details

03 Apr 2019
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Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jun 2018
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Floor It

they have. The accelerator brings together research foundations with relevant datasets and analytics companies to leverage the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with the ultimate goal... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

The world’s refugee population has exploded over the last decade, straining the resources of international resettlement agencies as staff struggle to keep up with manually matching millions of refugees and asylum seekers to host countries. Artificial View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

06 Dec 2017
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The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

(VC) funds. The unifying theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future We’re Building’. At the baseline, we wanted to discuss emerging technologies and trends such as blockchain, augmented reality/virtual reality, cryptocurrency, autonomous vehicles, and artificial... View Details