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- 16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?
diagnose patients by comparing their symptoms to millions of similar cases stored in a database. One can imagine, for example, a health worker in a remote area of a developing country where there are no doctors making a cell phone call to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
adoption is going to increase, then inevitably the price will go up. Epilogue from Santi Bitcoin is still small compared with the US dollar and other major currencies, but it is starting to become more relevant. Bitcoin has larger money... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present. It aims to place the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative perspective, dealing with three related issues. First, it examines the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
Batten’s generosity will enable us to continue the tradition of creating a seamless experience from learning to living.” Presently, Harvard University owns 240 acres of land in Allston, compared with the 215 in Cambridge. “As Allston... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Mar 2011
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HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
will have a newfound freedom to experiment with course design. Moon compared the new approach to a rule change in sports. “A change in the rules may not sound like much, but over time it can have a major impact on how the game is played,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
smile. “Wherever your career choices take you, try not to forget to be home Sunday evening for dinner with your family.” Preceding Moore, student speaker David Rawlinson (MBA ’08) compared graduation to a “new dawn” for himself and his... View Details
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
edge of the slum. “Instead we will build a great park,” he enthuses, comparing the idea with the High Line in Manhattan, the linear park built on an elevated section of disused railway. The article notes that the success of Rodriguez... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
in the social enterprise area,” Austin explains. “SEKN is about knowledge generation and institution building. We are harnessing the power of a learning network that can engage in crosscountry comparative research, which is very hard to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
stores were created using its platform compared to the first quarter of 2020, and the company’s revenue rose 97 percent to $714.3 million. Helen Mou (MBA 2014) is a Shopify product lead who is focused on the company’s conversational... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
employees, a long-view strategy, and keeping the family businesses home. For Bauerly, owning and growing Minnesota businesses made perfect sense. If you compare states across the country on a scatter plot, you tend to see an increase in... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai
will also drive them to India because only India can compete with China on both labor costs and domestic-market potential. Foreign firms will demand access to India and force the country to open up. As India does open up, what are its other competitive strengths? View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
of it is having a gut instinct. If you don’t have that, you can get into trouble trying to repeat past success by measuring every potential acquisition against a comparable film from the past. A film like Winter’s Bone would be a great... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
billion in revenues. The directors of professionally sponsored buyouts typically have comparable personal wealth at risk. These three innovations can lead to a more arm’s-length relationship between directors and the CEO. The lack of such... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
in 2015, compared with 4.2 percent rate for the group as a whole, while Nestlé is aiming to lift annual sales of health products to as high as 10 billion francs. The health operations also bring stronger profit margins. The group’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
into small businesses, where fraud is a particular problem, she says, because, compared to larger firms, “there aren’t as many controls.” She often found it helpful to go undercover as, say, a new accounting clerk, a bookkeeper, an office... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
those seven people. It’s clear that the engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in leadership, but they’ve made great... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Up on the Green Roof
construction. STARTING SMALL: The last step involved planting 9,000 tiny perennials roughly eight inches apart. In blazing summer heat, the daytime temperatures on a conventional asphalt roof can reach 160 degrees or higher compared to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
comes from ticket and concession sales, compared with the standard 50 percent of most performing arts organizations. With numerous public outreach programs, the Big Apple, adds Slifka, "is both an incredibly successful performing arts... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
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Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
brewery compares to the competition. Team members have one hour to digest the information and formulate a new strategy. At the end of eight rounds, industry winners are selected based on their overall performance throughout the game.... View Details