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- 16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?
English. But it needed all synapses firing to fend off the flesh-and-blood HBS team (MIT finished a distant third). Named after IBM patriarch Thomas J. Watson, this Watson is endowed with a canned male voice that recalls the creepy View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
arm might lift a barbell.” The 229 RCs who signed up for lunch roulette were connected with three perfectly randomized HBS classmates. Hosted by the Student Association and the Digital Initiative, the project used an open source computer... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
organizations serve, but also for the people who have chosen to work for such organizations. “I laugh all the time that nonprofits work with duct tape and rubber bands,” says Lisle. “The goal is not to do that. It’s to get staff ample pay and new, not used, View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
paper by Professor Shane Greenstein with Andre Boik of UC Davis and Jeffrey Prince of Indiana University offers surprising—and helpful—insights for advertisers or anyone else hoping to win online attention. Greenstein and his coauthors analyzed activity on the primary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
computing changes the way people use data to make decisions. “We’re seeing more of analytics and big data as a means not just to support the decision a person wants to make, but also as a way to provide insights, questions, and ideas you... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
marketing of customer-tailored computers — along with the achievements of Heinz, Field, and Lauder — Brand New underscores the power of brands not only to transform start-ups and gain competitive advantage but also to shape new industries... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
at Wohl Capital, a hedge fund. At night, I’d call her, and using Yahoo! Doodle as a shared notepad, I’d tutor her in math via computer and telephone. Other cousins and their schoolmates soon wanted help, too. It was getting crazy.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
to spend time indoors. The other is prison.) ... Here’s a weird but helpful way to think about all of this indoor time, courtesy of Rich Corsi, dean of engineering and computer science at Portland State University, an outstanding building... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
blockchain. That’s a ledger of transactions maintained by a decentralized network of computer systems that validate and cross-validate the transactions. Stablecoins are a different type of crypto asset. They use the same underlying... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
range of ideas and voices assembled by a succession of talented editors. From ardent speeches on leadership by the School's founders, to impassioned editorials about the causes of the Great Depression, to insightful commentary on the dawn of the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the economy evolve from a manufacturing base to one driven by services and information. The Information Age had... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
the age of 57, Charles Rossotti made a self-described "huge detour" from a 28-year career at American Management Systems, Inc., the Virginia-based computer systems consulting firm he cofounded. He went from helping corporate clients... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
families,” says Akuete. “So there were a few children of her workers for whom she would buy computers or pay tuition. But it wasn’t really codified in any way, and there was no commitment to it at a broader level. My stepping in just made... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
General Manage-ment unit. With the growing importance of the Internet and the fact that the daily operations of most organizations now rely heavily on computer technology, IT "has moved to the top of the agenda of most CEOs," notes Nolan.... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
Harmeling and Henderson have found, is that most approaches are little more than window dressing—a few hours’ worth of training made up of PowerPoint presentations, computer quizzes, and surface-level Q&A, with little lasting impact.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
pretty typical these days, and there was malware on his computer that had gotten to him via a phishing attack. Phishing: 99% of all the problems start with you or me, the carbon pieces of this equation, making a mistake. The malware... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Forecasting ’15
Health Care: Data-Driven Diagnosis Robert Wah (AMP 175, 2008) President, American Medical Association; Global Chief Medical Officer, Computer Sciences Corporation “We’re entering the third phase of health information technology. The first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator
Boston, working at Wohl Capital, a hedge fund. At night, I’d call her, and using Yahoo! Doodle as a shared notepad, I’d tutor her in math via computer and telephone. Other cousins and their schoolmates soon wanted help, too. It was... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Ink: The Three-Step Startup
For the last two decades in his classroom at Brown University, Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) has been using a structured approach to teach entrepreneurship—what he calls “see, solve, scale.” But roles reversed when his students pointed out that the executive director of... View Details