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04 Nov 2021
Blog Post

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM

living in San Francisco working at a data science startup as a product manager. I have always gravitated toward technology and science throughout my life, and machine learning, artificial intelligence, and... View Details

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

Education program called Managing Breakthroughs—From Science to Enterprise. "Wall Street has conventional and not always accurate measures of a company's value." Take Bank of America, which just renewed a $25 million, five-year... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

spread of epidemics, reducing congestion on highways, or finding ways to detect fraudulent transactions.The trend toward people analytics, Polzer says, is a logical extension of the era of big data, as the science of processing and... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

Rick Grinnell

frequent judge at MassChallenge. His contributions to the broader community include being on the Board of the Advanced Cyber Security Center, New England’s public/private security collaboration, the Board of Advisors at the Museum of View Details

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Polaroid Corporation Collection | Baker Library

extraordinary career of Meroë Morse—a key contributor to the development of instant photography, trusted advisor to Polaroid founder Edwin Land, and liaison to iconic landscape photographer Ansel Adams. At The Intersection of Science &... View Details

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Article databases: Which to choose? | Baker Library

Science Best for cited reference searches and journal citation reports for impact factor. Only citations are provided (no full text). Broad interdisciplinary coverage. Still need help? Our expert librarians are here to help you find what... View Details

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Krisha Patel | MBA

Krisha Patel Chemical & Physical Biology / Computer Science Dunster 2025 Cohort 6 Innovation and technology are true architects of change, especially when used to develop solutions that are user-centric, socially responsible and... View Details

01 Mar 2022
News

2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced

Emeritus, Stanford University; 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Alumni Achievement Award is given annually to a handful of alumni who represent the best traditions and highest aspirations of the School. For more than 50... View Details

19 Mar 2019
News

A Quick Study

over online flashcards. By 2012, the pair had left medical school to focus on the founding of Osmosis, in an attempt to bring their tools to a wider audience. A recent profile by the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied View Details

03 Nov 2016
News

17 Ventures Join the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab

life science and biotech ventures further, faster. The fully equipped wet lab environment, collaborative coworking space, and educational resources will support high-potential biotech, pharma, and other life sciences-related ventures that... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

Colorblindness: Emergence, Practice, and Implications Authors:Evan P. Apfelbaum, Michael I. Norton, and Samuel R. Sommers Publication:Current Directions in Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the pervasive endorsement... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

care, so as to facilitate high quality research on this topic. Data sources. The ISI Web of Knowledge database, which draws articles from MEDLINE, Social Science Citation Index, and Science Citation Index.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, but was denied a transfer to the university’s all-white College of Arts & Sciences when he wanted to change his major to chemistry. His... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

make up for lost years, he was surprised to find himself at Harvard at age 23. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013)... View Details

04 May 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Accounting for Product Impact in the Telecommunications Industry

Keywords: by George Serafeim and Katie Trinh; Telecommunications

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Harvard University's Real Estate Academic Initiative website. If Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Design seem miles apart both literally and culturally, John Macomber is determined to bridge the... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

2013
Book

Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability

By: John Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman

Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Culture; Behavior; Society

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May–June 2015
Article

Big Data: Big Deal or Big Hype?

By: Sunil Gupta

Google Flu Trends article of November 2008 heralded a new age for big data where it is possible to leverage the vast amount of data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a short span the pendulum swung from big data... View Details

Keywords: Big Data; Analytics and Data Science; Management Practices and Processes

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