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- 29 May 2023
- News
Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas
As a center for creativity where innovation and entrepreneurship are intertwined, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem encourages the development of novel ideas, approaches, and technologies that inspire new ventures or ways of thinking that keep companies relevant.... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
preliminary results of the Retirement Transitions Study in August at the Academy of Management Conference in Chicago. She is still analyzing the data for a working paper with co-authors Lotte Bailyn of the Sloan School at the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
needs to decide whether to continue efforts to convince one of the big three console makers (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) to enable the EPOC on their platform or to settle for the PC gaming market. Alternatively, the company could have chosen a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
when big scandals happen, like Enron and WorldCom, the weak link often turns out to be auditors. Managers are mostly truth-tellers but have incentives to embellish and sometimes commit fraud. So we rely on auditors to mitigate that... View Details
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
to going to HBS, it wasn’t until I took “Investing in the 21st Century: Return, Risk and Impact,” taught by Professors Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi, that I had a chance to learn about what impact investing was and understand how big the... View Details
- 14 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
and data science. We even have a political-science-major-turned-software-engineer who learned to code at Dev Bootcamp. 2. There’s a wide range of industry experience I also expected everyone to come from a View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
biggest problems in innovation is that it can generate uncertainty, says Thomke. Even in an age of Big Data, companies are stymied by the fact that they don’t know what they don’t know. “If something is very novel, there is little View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
reaching into the billions. Then one evening he got a call from Noubar Afeyan, managing partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm that started Moderna, asking Bancel to swing by the company's Boston office and take a look at the latest View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Competing in the Age of AI
Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve used an AI tool like ChatGPT or... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Professor Stefan H. Thomke + More Info – Less Info When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often discover that intuition, experience, and View Details
- Web
Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
leaders About the Professor Mihir Desai Leading with Finance Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance "This course is about the big ideas of finance, and how they map the most important business and life decisions people make." Dates &... View Details
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Eva Ascarza : Selected as a Marketing Science Institute Scholar in 2020. Jill J. Avery : Winner of the 2020 Case Centre Award in the Marketing Category for “Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
a big lesson of this crisis: Several leaders in the New York financial sector stepped forward to rally a response. They included John Pierpont Morgan; James J. Stillman, who led City National Bank; and George F. Baker of the First... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
purchasing other relevant products, from movies and books to clothes and food. Global spending on big data and business analytics is expected to increase 12 percent to $189 billion this year, and rise... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang
especially true as the first in my family to go to grad school. The biggest influence in my life has been my parents. Throughout my childhood, my parents worked multiple jobs to give me the educational opportunities I had—that’s a big... View Details
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
not going to be incredibly successful. But, if they are, then that’s a conversation that the regulators need to be aware of. In the short run, my great worry is patient privacy. They’re going to get something like 10 or 15 years of patient View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
innovations that will move the School forward. I’m a big believer that you are never too old to learn new things. So I’ve made a practice of going back to my notes at the end of each week to see and reflect on what I have learned.... View Details