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- 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 intelligence and... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
Additional information and data gathered from the event is expected to be distributed later this year. "We need a vision that says transportation and infrastructure (are) important, so important that a lot of people have to come to... View Details
- Book Review
In margine a un bilancio sui lumi europei." A review of The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680–1760, by John Robertson
Reinert, Sophus A. In margine a un bilancio sui lumi europei." A review of The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680–1760, by John Robertson." Rivista storica italiana 118 (2006): 975–986.
- July 2020
- Technical Note
Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force
By: Das Narayandas, Michael Norris and Amram Migdal
This brief case describes the rise of so-called digital natives (also called born-in-digital) in the 2000s and 2010s that successfully grew without a sales force. The case highlights the emergence of business-to-business Internet and cloud-based companies and their... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Australia; North and Central America; United States; Illinois; Chicago; California; San Francisco
Narayandas, Das, Michael Norris, and Amram Migdal. "Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force." Harvard Business School Technical Note 521-019, July 2020.
- Book Review
Review of From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change by Carol Chetkovich and Frances Kunreuther
By: Wesley Sine and Shon R. Hiatt
Sine, Wesley, and Shon R. Hiatt. "Review of From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change by Carol Chetkovich and Frances Kunreuther." Administrative Science Quarterly 53, no. 3 (September 2008): 578–582.
- November 1996
- Article
Localized Autocorrelation Diagnostic Statistic for Sociological Models: Times-series, Network, and Spatial Datasets
By: C. I. Nass and Y. Moon
Nass, C. I., and Y. Moon. "Localized Autocorrelation Diagnostic Statistic for Sociological Models: Times-series, Network, and Spatial Datasets." Sociological Methods & Research 25, no. 2 (November 1996): 223–247.
- March 2006
- Book Review
Review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies, by Ernesto R. Gantman. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2005.
By: Rakesh Khurana
Khurana, Rakesh. "Review of Capitalism, Social Privilege and Managerial Ideologies, by Ernesto R. Gantman. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2005." American Journal of Sociology 111, no. 5 (March 2006): 1608–1611.
- 2020
- Book
Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
By: Debora L. Spar
Covering a time frame that ranges from 8000 BC to the present, and drawing upon both Marxist and feminist theories, the book argues that nearly all the decisions we make in our most intimate lives—whom to marry, how to have children, how to have sex, how to think about... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Family; Women; Reproduction; Artificial Intelligence; Robots; Gender; Demography; History; Innovation and Invention; Relationships; Society; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
Spar, Debora L. Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
MindTree: A Community of Communities (TN)
By: David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for 311049. View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
- June 2023
- Teaching Note
Connecting Students in Chattanooga (A) and (B)
By: Jan W. Rivkin
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 722-449 and 722-451. As this case opens, it is the spring of 2020 in Chattanooga. COVID-19 has hit, public schools have closed their buildings, remote learning has begun, and more than 28,000 schoolkids lack the high-quality Internet... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Even as citizens generate more data than ever before, most cities haven’t taken full advantage of that information flow to improve services and become more efficient. “Historically, cities have been moving in analog, trying to measure... View Details
- 8 Aug 2008
- Conference Presentation
Where Will Open Development Communities Prevail?
- July 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Teaching Note
Demand Media (TN)
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Teaching Note for 512021. View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
just simply that it exists, and that society needs to understand how it works. Ultimately, she concludes, government has a regulatory role to play in the baby trade. We asked Spar to discuss her research. Manda Salls: Why did you want to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
uncoordinated information and education (Mark Beaty, Carlos V., Scott Beaumont, among others); and finally citizens, patients, and their loved ones who do or don't take part in managing their own wellness and care (Mary Parker). All of... View Details
- 1992
- Article
On the Organizational Determinants of Technological Change: Towards a Sociology of Technological Evolution
By: L. Rosenkopf and M. Tushman
Rosenkopf, L., and M. Tushman. "On the Organizational Determinants of Technological Change: Towards a Sociology of Technological Evolution." Research in Organizational Behavior 14 (1992).
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
services as well as information that assesses the relative value delivered by providers. Because the United States has competition in health care, we would expect to see improving value, but we see just the opposite. Value-based... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
the opportunity to withhold information from their husbands about access to contraception. The results? Providing cheap and convenient forms of birth control led to a reduction in unwanted births only when women were given full autonomy... View Details
- Article
Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850
By: Tom Nicholas
Research into culture and entrepreneurship in Britain has been dominated by casual empiricism. This article shows the benefits of using a new method. Lifetime wealth accumulation is specified as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, and applied to data collected... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance Evaluation; Biography; Culture; Education; Wealth; Research; Great Britain
Nicholas, Tom. "Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850." Journal of Economic History 59, no. 3 (September 1999).