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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to hers. Roche asked how his research was going, and in the... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Learning to Use: Stack Overflow and Technology Adoption
By: Daniel Jay Brown and Maria P. Roche
In this paper, we examine the potential impact of Q&A websites on the adoption of technologies.
Using data from Stack Overflow – one of the most popular Q&A websites worldwide
– and implementing an instrumental-variable approach, we find that users whose questions... View Details
Brown, Daniel Jay, and Maria P. Roche. "Learning to Use: Stack Overflow and Technology Adoption." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-001, July 2023.
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established markets, aspiring providers of new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
along with companies like Apple, Facebook, and Progressive Insurance, is a leading example of firms that are thinking about customers in a new way—much like how a museum curator orchestrates the experience of patrons. Weaver, an assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
virtual event that included the Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Masters Series. Lambert went on to recall Fitzhugh’s mentorship during her undergraduate years at Howard University; he encouraged her to apply, attend, and... View Details
- 07 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'
job, says Isamar Troncoso, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. They often turn to photos when they must compare two final candidates with comparable skills. “It was from my own experience as a user... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
How Coaching Can Help You - Alumni
committed to helping alumni realize their unique career visions. They are trained to assist HBS alumni with all aspects of the career development process including: Self-assessment and career vision Developing job search strategies Resume... View Details
- 09 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing
James Evans, professor at the University of Chicago, and Misha Teplitskiy, assistant professor at the University of Michigan. People in the same discipline “ask the similar questions and approach those questions methodologically in... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 22 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have
There’s a virtual elephant in AI’s room: It’s nearly impossible to make the technology forget. And there are an increasing number of scenarios where consumers and programmers may not only want to remove data from a machine learning... View Details
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Middle East & North Africa - Global
million series A funds to refine and expand its digital safety platform while refining its target markets and ideal customer profile. As the company implemented new approaches to create value for its clients, such as developing an AI-powered View Details
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Press / Media
By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- Web
Help - Alumni
review the Visit Campus page for the latest on visiting campus. While in-person tours may not always be available there are virtual tours and other resources to fill the gap. Is there a map of campus? There is an interactive map available... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
Acceptance Rate 3% More Key Enrollment Statistics New Faculty Twenty-three faculty members, including new tenure-track professors, visitors, and practitioners, participated in START, a deep-dive orientation to the School that took place View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?
empirically predicted with a machine learning model, suggests work by Shunyuan Zhang, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and collaborators. “Our research represents the first empirical attempt to characterize the... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
risky collateral led to a dramatic expansion in the issuance of structured securities, most of which were viewed by investors to be virtually risk-free and certified as such by the rating agencies. At the core of the recent financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?
Players have long been able to buy virtual items with real money in video games, such as special weapons and features. But Nintendo raised the ire of parents and regulators in 2018 when it added so-called loot boxes—a View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic
discussions to intrude on meetings scheduled for other purposes. “Grabbing a marker and sketching ideas together on a whiteboard—that's much more difficult in the virtual environment,” says Ashley Whillans, View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
HBS OnBoard To inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards The OnBoard program was created to develop alumni leadership skills critical for modern governance. OnBoard consists of virtual synchronous sessions on current issues,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details