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Health Care - Faculty & Research
Kumar, Kevin Schulman and Karen Staman Health care administration educators are at a crossroads: the health care sector is rife with inefficiencies, erratic quality, unequal access, and sky-high costs, complex problems which call for innovative solutions, and yet,... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
and synthetic biology- that have passed commercial viability and are on-track to change the foundations of business and society by 2035. These technologies predict behavior and increasingly create behavior. They learn and improve... View Details
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
decisions Recognize trends, detect outliers, and summarize data sets Analyze relationships between variables Develop and test hypotheses Craft sound survey questions and draw conclusions from population samples Implement regression... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Redefining How Businesses Operate
In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up We create credible, fun online content on women's health/sex, plus sexual assault prevention events. Business Track, 2015 RapidSOS Michael Martin Nick Horelik Kellen Brink Alex Santana Kaiying Liao Joe... View Details
- 06 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion
words still ring true for me five months later. For one of my team’s late nights, we retreated to my apartment to test whether our “alarm” could detect when a shower was running. But the evening was also an opportunity to have a brief... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
assistance of Richard Kriebel, Land presented the science behind his invention in a series of engaging public forums. In 1936, the young entrepreneur introduced his synthetic light polarizing discs at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New... View Details
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Harvard Business School
company's devices enable agents from the Department of Homeland Security, United States Customs and Border Protection, and about sixty foreign governments to detect even the most cleverly concealed drugs, cash, and guns. Harris notes, “I... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
‘godlike technologies’ that have passed commercial viability and are on- track to change the foundations of business and society in the next decade – AI, Blockchain and Synthetic Biology and examine their impact on who we are as... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
cybersecurity resulted in losses of $500 billion in 2014, but we’re only spending about $100 billion to address the problem. There’s a huge gap between the size of the threat and our ability to detect it. + ONLINE web-only View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility—the platform owner with smaller standalone... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
credit card companies have become much better at shutting that down quickly.” Now hackers look for personally identifiable information—think birthdays, social security numbers, and addresses—that they can sell on the underground market and use to build View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Publication:Environmental History 13, no. 4 (October 2008): 684-694 Abstract The ability to detect and measure the presence of synthetic chemicals at trace levels in humans coupled to increased environmental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
necessary to produce vast quantities of vaccines. Governments could also invest in parts of the supply chain necessary for making vaccines. One input, for example, is a chemical necessary for detecting toxins in vaccines, which in nature... View Details
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Cookie Information | HBS Online
specific functions when you access or use our Services. The data collected or generated by these technologies helps us perform a variety of functions such as operating the Services, measuring and improving the performance of the Services, understanding your... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
Akuete’s companies. By keeping the processing and manufacturing in Ghana, where the company has two facilities, Akuete can guarantee unrefined shea butter without added chemicals, agents, synthetic processes, and transcontinental... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
other fields, including professional sports. Artificial intelligence (AI) is also having its moment, with the rise of ChatGPT and the ripples through the tech and content worlds that it continues to generate. Some big data projects have... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
with collections of thousands of pieces of curated educational content to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in some of the most impoverished countries around the world lacking in basic educational resources. Founder and executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
candidate much benefit of a doubt. “They might just think if you look uninhibited, you’re an idiot, and they don’t want to hire an idiot.” She adds that future research might look at ways to avoid sharing content that you later stand to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
sample of 82 ads for 30 brands in their homes or workplaces. The research relied on webcams that track visible changes on a person's face as they watch an ad, responding to funny, or amusing content. The software detects the slightest... View Details