Technological Progress - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Nov 2020
News

Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results

Moderna released promising news on the progress of their coronavirus vaccine this morning, noting that trials showed it to be 94.5% effective. “In this pandemic, what has been awful from a public health standpoint, an economic standpoint,... View Details

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

manage and advance their careers in the less predictable world of contract labor. But how do you land those kinds of jobs? In "Stretchwork: Managing the Career Progression Paradox in External Labor Markets," forthcoming in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Technology; Technology

01 Sep 2018
News

Your Keyboard Is Listening

simplify negotiations, and plan to market the product as a tool for monitoring diagnosed patients for changes brought on by disease progression or treatment regimens. The bigger regulatory hurdle—and the even bigger market—is in early... View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

Jonathan Assayag

Business and innovative technology have consistently played large roles in Jonathan Assayag's life. Growing up in Brazil and Miami, he started his informal business education working weekends at his parents' retail store, selling... View Details

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Amy Sennett

and helped draft treaty language “for the codification and progressive development of international law.” Development as best diplomacy Through the HBS Social Enterprise Club, Amy has seen “a lot of ways for-profits and entrepreneurial... View Details

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HBS - From The Dean

community. It was also a year when we made significant progress on several important priorities. At a moment when AI took center stage with the advent of ChatGPT, our own digital transformation—exploring how we can leverage data and... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Illustration by Timothy Cook An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance Pleasure in Progress Teresa Amabile It sounds so obvious: Employees who make meaningful View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

conclusion by manually going through the data,” the lead doctor told the Japan Times, “but Watson’s speed is crucial in the treatment of leukemia, which progresses rapidly and can cause complications.” This is the beauty of Watson, which... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

private equity funds, and institutional investors." Jacqueline Crespo MBA 2015 | At the Nexus of Change "My experiences have taught me that there are no shortcuts or easy paths to solving the energy and climate problem. My view is that the game changing energy View Details

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

which finds (a) a shift in the object of observation from organizational outcomes to the detailed individual activities within them; (b) a shift from people observing the technology to technology observing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate

one is from normal science to provocateur," Tedlow said. "Ted's outrageous; there is just no other way to put it." For example, in the aforementioned "Throw Money" article, Levitt made this statement: "Every sustained wave of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2015
News

Living the Legacy

world examples and progress monitoring tools especially motivating. “I’m less intimidated about business after taking this course,” she confirms. “I already know the terminology.” Paul and Kevin, the Kusisto’s twin boys, have very... View Details

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government does that, the capital and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Oct 2001
News

Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

when it opens early next year. Plans are also on the drawing board for new facilities to house lifelong learning activities and academic activities related to faculty development and for an academic center and a major renovation of Baker Library. View Details

Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

Boston has always been fueled by an Enlightenment belief in scientific progress and human perfectibility. It is home to America's first public school, Boston Latin School (1635), and college, Harvard College (1636). After the American... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

major technological waves. We saw it with the rise of computing, and we’re already seeing signs of it with AI. Recent trends show that women are less likely to experiment with or adopt these tools. That’s deeply concerning, because this... View Details

17 Nov 2015
First Look

November 17, 2015

Societal and Political Dimensions of Innovation Innovation and Business Growth By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—Innovation and the pursuit of new business opportunities are essential for growth at the firm level; moreover, they provide the foundation for an economy to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more... View Details