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  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

marketplace, then the tradeoff is shifted towards the marketplace for long-tail (respectively, short-tail) products. We thus provide a theory of which products an intermediary should offer in each mode. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

What is Field Foundations?

The case method is an integral part of the learning experience at HBS, and we think it’s one of the best ways to prepare students for the challenges of leadership.  While HBS... View Details
  • February 2024
  • Teaching Note

TimeCredit

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Raymond Kluender and Shai Benjamin Bernstein
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 824-139. TimeCredit is an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that is developing large language models (LLMs) to generate accounting memos. The case follows Ndonga Sagnia, a Gambian Harvard Business School MBA student with an accounting... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; AI and Machine Learning; Entrepreneurial Finance; Identity; Partners and Partnerships; Technology Industry
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  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Ask the Expert: In Security

common than ever? —John Lacey (MBA 1981) YOUNG: Bulletproof security is not statistically possible, but we can minimize risk by developing layers of protection and proactive approaches that increase those layers. Adversarial View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

  PublicationsWhen Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We present a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

that shadowy area between the clear light of right-doing and the clear light of wrong-doing. What the jurors in Houston in effect told us is to forget about pushing the limits View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

perverse effect of perpetuating the problem. Drawing on a case study of a professional service firm, we develop a multilevel theory to explain why organizations are caught in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2022
  • Case

Business Roundtable 2019 Statement: A New Paradigm or Business as Usual?

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Amram Migdal
This note focuses on the antecedents of, reactions to, and clarifications about The Business Roundtable’s August 19, 2019, “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” The note includes background information on corporate governance as practiced in the United States in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Business History; Mission and Purpose; Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
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  • 2011
  • Article

A Choice Prediction Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction

By: Eyal Ert, Ido Erev and Alvin E. Roth
Two independent, but related, choice prediction competitions are organized that focus on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games: one focuses on predicting the choices of the first mover and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Game Theory; Fairness
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  • February 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

Taffi: Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia

By: Paul A. Gompers and Fares Khrais
Taffi was a tech-enabled fashion styling startup founded by Shahad Geoffrey in Saudi Arabia in 2020. Within three years of operating, Geoffrey had pivoted the business multiple times. In 2023, Geoffrey was attempting the business’s most ambitious pivot yet, shifting... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Fashion Industry; Technology Industry; Saudi Arabia; Arabian Peninsula
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

AI Companions Reduce Loneliness

By: Julian De Freitas, Ahmet K Uguralp, Zeliha O Uguralp and Puntoni Stefano
Chatbots are now able to engage in sophisticated conversations with consumers in the domain of relationships, providing a potential coping solution to widescale societal loneliness. Behavioral research provides little insight into whether these applications are... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Behavior; Well-being
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  • April 2024 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Anthropic: Building Safe AI

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In late 2024, Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company, achieved a significant breakthrough with computer use capabilities that allowed AI to interact with computers like humans. Co-founded by former OpenAI employees and known for its generative AI... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Strategy; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift

By: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo and Kris Ferreira
Problem definition: While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may perform well on data that are representative of the training set (inliers), they may err when extrapolating on non-representative data (outliers). These outliers often originate from covariate shift,... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

  Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

selection and impact is important to both researchers and practitioners. This paper introduces Leader Filtration Theory (LFT)-a theory from political science-to managerial audiences, applies it to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

innovations while also making steady improvements to an existing business is so commonplace—and so fascinating—that it has become a battleground of management thought. For decades, scholars have spun View Details
Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
  • 05 Jun 2000
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

Summing Up The patience of our readers is being taxed. But some nevertheless took the time to voice opinions about whether we are, in general, becoming more impatient. The general conclusion is that we are. And they lament the phenomenon.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort

know my Women’s College cohort not only showed me what amazing kinds of people I would get to meet in the HBS MBA program, but also helped me to realize that having interests and knowledge in areas outside View Details