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01 Mar 2024
News

The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

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03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

turns out that the people who created the internet, primarily White men, didn’t classify or tag themselves as anything. This means that when you ask the AI system – which uses information up to the year 2020—to show an image of a white... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

9:00 a.m. Welcome Srikant Datar, George F. Baker Professor of Administration, Dean of the Faculty 9:15 a.m. Roles, Responsibility, and Expectations: What Is Business Meant to Do? Two trends are increasingly converging across the United States, and shifting the View Details

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Help - Research Computing Services

HBSGrid Saving plots and images created by R on the HBSGrid requires minor modifications to the typical R code for saving these files. Connecting Remotely to WRDS on Windows Directions for how to connect remotely to WRDS on Windows using Stata, SAS, and other... View Details

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

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01 Dec 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

a more favorable market environment for our impact model, so there was some concern as to whether our model was portable. That building is now one of PD’s best-performing assets.” Inspiration: Former NFL wide receiver Jerry Rice. “No one... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

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12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

inspired by the stories of these students. Visit @prideathbs on Instagram for more information and features about the LGBTQ+ community at HBS. Eduardo Avalos (he/him/his), Class of 2024 “Te quiero, mijo.” When my six-year relationship... View Details

January 1982
Article

A Negativity Bias in Interpersonal Evaluation

By: T. M. Amabile and A. H. Glazebrook

Two studies were conducted to demonstrate a bias toward negativity in evaluations of persons or their work in particular social circumstances. In Study 1, subjects evaluated materials written by peers. Those working under conditions that placed them in low status... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Status and Position; Prejudice and Bias; Performance Evaluation; Situation or Environment; Perception; Attitudes

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

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15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

an associated 90% confidence interval of (2.3%, 17.8%). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49523 2015 The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Information Technology and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

therefore presents a natural environment in which to evaluate alternatives for these and other design choices. In this piece, I review the basics of online advertising, then turn to design decisions as to ad pricing, measurement,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

Running Jobs Running a Program/Submitting a Job 23ms After choosing resources, picking the software application and environment is the next, important step in running or job or submitting a program. With software selected, users can then... View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

experiences, but most were financial industry professionals located in the U.S.. More than 80% of the participants listed investment management, real estate, private equity, or banking as their industry. Figure 1: Share of Respondents by Industry The respondents... View Details

30 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

speakers on campus such as Indra Nooyi (ex-CEO of Pepsi), Ginni Rometty (ex-CEO of IBM), and Nurtac Afridi (CEO of Godiva). We also strive to provide an environment where women can share thoughts that are more intimate and specific to... View Details

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Oct 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

including one I prepared about the New York Police Department. At NYPD, in his first stint as Police Commissioner, Bill Bratton led massive changes in nearly every aspect of the department, including the focus of the city’s policing, the use of new technology, changes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

elements of the course by offering feedback on others’ reflections and contributing to conversations on the platform. Participants who fail to complete the course requirements will not receive a certificate and will not be eligible to retake the course. More detailed... View Details

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