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  • January 2022 (Revised November 2023)
  • Supplement

Uber in China (C): The Cost of Success for Didi

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
On June 30, 2021, ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (Didi) raised $4.4 billion in its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the largest IPO of a Chinese company listed on an American exchange since Alibaba raised $25 billion in 2014.... View Details
Keywords: Uber; Didi Chuxing; Start-up Growth; Regulation; Ride-sharing; Transportation; Business Startups; Business and Government Relations; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Growth and Development; Policy; Competition; Laws and Statutes; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; China
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  • August 2017 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Busbud: Building a Data Company

By: Srikant M. Datar, Alistair Croll and Caitlin N. Bowler
The case features the work of LP Maurice (HBS '08) as he decides to take on the fragmented bus travel industry and launch an online business that aggregates and shares bus schedules for routes around the world. His first challenge: finding that the data he needs is... View Details
Keywords: Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Business Startups; Knowledge Acquisition; Customers; Measurement and Metrics; Transportation Industry
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  • 03 Jan 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

process posing other more interesting propositions for consideration. Tony Wanless emphasized the importance of knowing the way leaders learn from experience, suggesting the need for "a synthesis of thinking that adds value to the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

tremendous way for developers to learn quickly, and for both developers and technology companies to reap real benefits.” About the author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: gorodenkoff] Related Reading 6 Ways That... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

    Lynda M. Applegate

    Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

    • 02 Jul 2019
    • Blog Post

    Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach

    faculty discussing cases they’ve written and the lessons they impart. If the Key to Business Success is Focus, Why Does Amazon Work?Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta explores the infiltration of Amazon into dozens of industries including web services,... View Details
    • 2022
    • Article

    A Human-Centric Take on Model Monitoring

    By: Murtuza Shergadwala, Himabindu Lakkaraju and Krishnaram Kenthapadi
    Predictive models are increasingly used to make various consequential decisions in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, finance, and policy. It becomes critical to ensure that these models make accurate predictions, are robust to shifts in the data, do not rely on... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Research and Development; Demand and Consumers
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    An Experimental Design for Anytime-Valid Causal Inference on Multi-Armed Bandits

    By: Biyonka Liang and Iavor I. Bojinov
    Typically, multi-armed bandit (MAB) experiments are analyzed at the end of the study and thus require the analyst to specify a fixed sample size in advance. However, in many online learning applications, it is advantageous to continuously produce inference on the... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods
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    • 16 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter

    What stories were readers like you diving into this summer on HBS Working Knowledge? Your interests varied dramatically, everything from how researchers use machine learning technology to predict CEO performance to the power of rituals in... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Alumni

    #CorporateLife #IvyLeague #HarvardAlumni #Leadership #BusinessLeaders #CorporateNetworking #FutureLeaders #BusinessCommunity #AlumniEvents #Podcasts # @HBSAlumni @hbsalumni From bioengineering to business, women’s health to backyard farming—this HBS student’s journey... View Details
    • 05 Sep 2008
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

    conviction," and foster the realization "that life is filled with ambiguity." Tony Prehn pointed out that "The case study method ... is also an organic learning tool that updates itself as business environments and... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education
    • Profile

    Brittani Rettig

    blogging has led to other opportunities to share my healthy tips and inspirational stories on major media outlets like Good Morning Texas, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In online community, and on Greatist.com. In addition to the blog, I have... View Details
    Keywords: Consulting; Services; Health Care
    • September 2023 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation

    By: Sandra J. Sucher, Fares Khrais and Marilyn Morgan Westner
    This case is written to help students explore how companies can maintain and develop trust while innovating, how to identify and respond effectively to warning signs that they may not be as trusted as they believe, and how being trusted can aid in expanding and growing... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Trust; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Using Technology to Augment Professionals, Instead of Replacing Them, for Innovative Problem Solving

    By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Felicia Ng, Aniket Kittur and Robert Kraut
    While in some technological and scientific areas innovation is flourishing, in others it is stalling, leaving important problems unsolved for decades. One explanation is professionals’ limitations as problem solvers, as accumulating depth of knowledge enhances one’s... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Expertise; Future Of Work; Crowdsourcing; Artificial Intelligence; Problem Solving; Professionalism; Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development
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    • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
    • Case

    LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)

    By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
    LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns... View Details
    Keywords: Data Science; Data Analytics; Investing; Loans; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Model
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    • 24 Apr 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

    April 2018 Management Science Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits By: Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno Abstract—Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Jun 2020
    • Blog Post

    Delivering Solutions During a Crisis: an Interview with Hans Kristian Furuseth

    When Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019) arrived at Harvard Business School in 2017, his goals were clear. He wanted to build the skills necessary to be a leader who makes a difference in the world. Now as CEO of Farmasiet.no, Norway’s largest View Details
    • 30 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

    Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Publications - Faculty & Research

    broad range of corporate actions from a nonpecuniary perspective. Our core findings, based on large-scale online surveys, are that (i) self-reported nonpecuniary concerns are large, both for stock... View Details Keywords: Public Opinion... View Details
    • 02 Apr 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?

    the CEO and founder of BandPage, an online service that allows musicians to post information and connect with fans. Their conversation touched on power dynamics, as-yet-untapped areas for future digitization, and a question from the... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Music