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- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
School Case 816-072 Neurotrack and the Alzheimer's Puzzle Elli Kaplan founded Neurotrack in 2012 with a breakthrough noninvasive cognitive diagnostics test that will detect Alzheimer's disease in its earliest pre-symptomatic stages. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, Indian business groups are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
provided by multinational firms. Detection Defection: Measuring and Understanding the Predictive Accuracy of Customer Churn Models Authors:Scott Neslin, Sunil Gupta, Wagner Kamakura, Junxiang Lu, and Charlotte Mason Periodical:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
meanness level that a penal system based on "retribution" tries to detect when deciding the severity of the punishment. We find that when initial beliefs differ, two equilibria can emerge out of identical fundamentals. In the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Inequality in the Digital Age: A Conversation with Mahzarin Banaji - Blog: RGE Report
research show us that an algorithm can detect a tumor, or another malady, X percentage times better than the average radiologist. That’s very good. If an algorithm is catching more real tumors that a human was missing, that's what we want... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
what my priorities are. I actually didn't know what that mission-driven work would be at the time. But I came across a company whose mission it was to democratize access to genetic testing for hereditary cancers. It was that power of genetic information that led me to... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
also some sticks and penalties in it. The most important one is probably the first-of-its-kind fee on methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, which is boosting the developing market for equipment to detect and measure methane... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
protecting the Fatherland and doing his part to undermine the war effort. “The equivalent is likely happening in your organization today, with the same corrosive effect.” —From Simple Sabotage: A Modern Field Manual for Detecting &... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
out its Genetics Diagnostic Lab into a fully commercial entity. Claritas offered over 100 genomic tests to detect a range of conditions, including autism and intellectual disabilities, and was developing new tests that provided clearer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
Media) Show Hide Details Concepts Shifts in Operating Models Navigating Transition Is Transitioning to a Platform Right for You? Featured Exercises Articulate the benefits of transitioning a product or service into a platform Detect and... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
research to help address. EPA senior attorney-advisor Jon Silberman says he attended with potential research questions related to the agency’s Next Generation Compliance initiative, which aims to take advantage of new tools and approaches, such as advanced emissions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
How can online advertising fraud be detected and prevented? What should we look at, where should we look, and what methods and tools should we use? These questions are relevant to anyone who buys online advertising. According to HBS... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, and we also detect an impact of the prizes on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
coming up with a solution that could be off-the-shelf. So when they actually see solutions from this type of method, they're blown away. Recently, an internal science team at a U.S.-based major biotechnology firm was assigned to develop a method for rapid and simple... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company’s aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
tension now detectable at the very heart of Chimerica. For some time, concern has been mounting in the U.S. Congress about what is seen as unfair competition and currency manipulation by China, and the worse the recession gets in the... View Details
- 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
- Profile
Henry McCance
causes of the disease’s mind-robbing effects. Inflammation within the brain appears to play a key role, opening new treatment possibilities if the disease can be detected before symptoms develop. “We’ve made great progress thanks to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
changes HBS ultimately adopts, one thing is certain. The School will remain steadfast in its commitment to the case method. Reflecting on the discussions that took place during the faculty colloquium, Garvin says he detected “no sense at... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
and minimizes the expected time to detection under a pre-specified alternative hypothesis. We apply our method to a model in which the interdependency among the multiple adverse events is captured by a Cox proportional hazards model with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel