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- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
Essentially, subjects are shown dots on a screen representing 25 cities and asked to make a route that hits all of the cities and returns to their starting point. The goal: find the route requiring the shortest distance. “It’s actually a... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
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Meet the Team | Information Technology
Fight , a documentary film he recently directed and produced featuring the stories of female musicians in the Greater Boston Area that was screened at the 2023 Independent Film Festival Boston and other festivals. Ivan Audouin Lead... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
'76), have developed an astounding array of community outreach services -- from elaborate food pantries to job assistance programs; from tutoring, mentoring, and counseling services for children and young mothers to retirement planning courses for the elderly; from... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
network, based on a breakthrough proprietary technology that we developed. It makes possible the show I do now. With a mouse click, anyone with a webcam can beam into the show, go through a screener like calling in to a radio talk show, appear on split View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
Lastly, companies can set up some kind of screening process, by which only actual customers can vote, but giving out a voting code attached to products. That way, those voting are more likely to be invested in the actual outcome and may... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
ideas and ventures; and the drag of middle management screening of ideas in large organizations that is absent in startups. They concluded, among other things, that the bottom-up RAP process still held the most promise if top management... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
crunching. Acxiom, say analysts, has constructed the world's largest consumer database. Nearly 25,000 servers track data on 700 million consumers worldwide, including most US consumers, assembling approximately 1,500 data points per person. Even if you use different... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
employer. It helps screen talent and certifies that it is of high quality. In the United States there is a rich ecosystem of similar business schools that compete and, through the process of competition, need to remain honest. Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
Sharks have been stigmatized on screen for decades, from the 1975 movie Jaws, in which a gigantic great white shark terrorizes a resort island off the coast of Massachusetts, to the 2013 movie Sharknado, in which the eponymous spout of... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
services. “We’re working to introduce these technologies to clients in their 60s and 70s. These are people who don’t go to bed with their phones beside them.” Such technology, she says, includes screen readers for smart phones, for... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
their organizations. The second platform, HBX Live, is a virtual classroom housed in a Boston television studio where up to 60 people are engaged in real-time case discussions. The discussion leader — typically an HBS faculty member — sees participants arrayed on a... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
and accuracy and making screening more accessible to poor and under-served groups. Our efforts started a movement that vastly escalated breast cancer research funding, and gave patients and survivors a permanent voice in medical decision... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
Times were hard for Webvan this year. Like other online grocers and delivery services that hit the screen in 2001—among them, Homegrocer, Kozmo, and Streamline—Webvan finally called it quits in July after two years in business. Webvan may... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
Instead of taking big screens across the country by storm, this summer’s blockbuster has people glued to much smaller ones. Launched at the beginning of July by San Francisco-based software development company Niantic, Inc., Pokémon Go... View Details
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
researchers also closely examined outside ads by PACs, which have appeared on many radar screens in recent years. The Democrats had more ads by the candidate than the Republicans in each of the three elections. However, in the case of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
screening participants in drug trials and make it possible to track and troubleshoot unexpected problems that show up after a drug is introduced into the general population, like what happened with Vioxx. The potential of this technology... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53888 Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm? By: Vallée, Boris, and Yao Zeng Abstract—Marketplace lending relies on large-scale loan screening by investors, a major deviation from the... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
Lime is a Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center spinout from Dr. Dan Heller’s lab, utilizing a novel high-throughput screening approach for discovering lipid-targeting drugs for treating cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. Using its... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
in the next year or so. JH: That’s great. I’m just curious, to give us a sense of it as a product, what do you have on your lock screen that’s courtesy of Glance? NT: If I pick it up, given it’s the morning,[00:07:00] I’m pretty sure I’m... View Details