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Podcast - Business & Environment

mesh networks detect wildfires at their inception and transmit real-time alerts to their customers. He also discusses the technical challenges of embedding machine learning into low-cost sensors, the... View Details

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Competing in the Age of AI

Learn about the AI tools at your disposal, and how to deploy them in your organization. Machine learning isn't the future, it's the here and now. Develop the skills, master the... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar | About

and machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has published his work on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based competition, new product development, bottleneck management,... View Details

19 Dec 2023
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The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

People Get Ahead?Society seems to reward people with particular facial features. Research by Shunyuan Zhang and colleagues uses machine learning to analyze traits that people associate with charisma. The... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

07 Jul 2022
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How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

heights of dealing with Disney, to all the troubles that befell us years later, and ultimately to the bankruptcy. It comes from chasing that star and flying too close to the sun,” recalled Smith. A machine parts company from Oregon... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and-barely-to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation's hard-won independence from Britain. Buy the book:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2023
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Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

applications, internet and mobile communications, and AI, especially when tied to machine learning and deep learning. “One of the major effects of big data on businesses is that their dependence on the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology

29 Oct 2008
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The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

sales depend on two things: the launch of new, higher-priced, higher-featured, often customized products that persuade consumers to trade in their existing appliances before they break down (think cellphones), as well as household penetration of products such as fax... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

14 Feb 2022
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Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

their actions. They must learn to see their decisions and actions as working hypotheses that they can only validate by collecting feedback on their impact as expeditiously as possible. Leaders will be blindsided if they rely only on their... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

2024
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The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem Solving

By: Léonard Boussioux, Jacqueline N. Lane, Miaomiao Zhang, Vladimir Jacimovic and Karim R. Lakhani

The rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) open up attractive opportunities for creative problem-solving through human-guided AI partnerships. To explore this potential, we initiated a crowdsourcing challenge focused on sustainable, circular economy... View Details

Keywords: Large Language Models; Crowdsourcing; Generative Ai; Creative Problem-solving; Organizational Search; AI-in-the-loop; Prompt Engineering; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation and Invention

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16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

toward sharks. Given that nature documentaries are often regarded as objective and authoritative sources of information, it is critical that documentary filmmakers and viewers are aware of how the soundtrack can affect the interpretation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2024
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Using LLMs for Market Research

By: James Brand, Ayelet Israeli and Donald Ngwe

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly gained popularity as labor-augmenting tools for programming, writing, and many other processes that benefit from quick text generation. In this paper we explore the uses and benefits of LLMs for researchers and practitioners... View Details

Keywords: Large Language Model; Research; AI and Machine Learning; Analysis; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

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14 Feb 2012
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PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jan 2008
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If Marketing Experts Ran Elections

Maybe they have to register in advance, wait in line at the polling station, and use an out-of-date polling machine to do so. The commercial marketplace is much more convenient. Consumers can cast their votes at millions of... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

interpreting a multiple variable regression analysis using Excel Apply multiple regression analysis to a staffing challenge faced by a hotel Expand the range of your analysis by using dummy and lagged variables Free E-Book Advance Your... View Details

Frank Nagle

Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

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Mark Giragosian

College and Northwestern University, including internships in consulting and investment banking. Upon retiring from the Joffrey, Mark worked at Morgan Stanley. “I wanted to have another career, not just another job. I looked for opportunities to View Details

31 Jan 2022
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Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

available doesn’t guarantee that teams will use it. Can employees access data easily? Is it integrated into employees’ workflows and processes? Do employees—regardless of seniority, experience, or age—know how to interpret the data? While... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

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Vi Mai

to the States when I was nine. I learned English by watching TV, reading grocery catalogs, and interpreting for my parents at doctor visits. As I grew older, I came to realize that the problem was not my... View Details

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Financial Accounting is an 8-week, 60-hour online certificate program from Harvard Business School. This course teaches the fundamentals of financial accounting from the ground up. Participants learn how to prepare and View Details

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