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- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
AI, they kind of sound the same. They talk about neurons, they talk about neural networks, they have some of those words. But they're actually not very biologically true. They don't have neuroscientists on their staff, they don't read the latest View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
their part.” “Our biggest challenge when we started the business was we were doing something that nobody had done before,” adds Minard. “It was a completely blank sheet of paper in terms of figuring out what we wanted the production... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
paper was the basis for an article, "The Coming Battle of Customer Information," in the January-February 1997 issue of Harvard Business Review. Catchy Pitches Individuals seeking to start a new business or simply develop contacts often... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
product and so-called paper competitors who have intellectual property rights but aren’t involved in the industry in any real sense. This abuse of the system certainly wasn’t what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they gave Congress... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
United States and Brazil could do a lot more together. There’s a lot of potential for partnership. Books you’re reading? Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell; The Snowball, about Warren Buffett. What’s the first Web site you look at in the morning? I read my e-mail. I’m a fan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
growth. Four of the five papers in this year’s volume highlight the increasing role of the Internet and digitization in our understanding of the changing nature of innovation and entrepreneurship and the impact of innovation policy.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
combine his undergraduate training as an industrial engineer with his business knowledge to become a securities analyst specializing in the chemical, drug, and paper industries. He then managed Rothschild's research department, viewing... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
"Wickham Skinner was a huge influence on me," he says. "He'd written an important paper back in the 1970s, and I wrote to him to refute a few of his points. He agreed with me and became my mentor. He told me to apply to HBS. To this day,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas just to kind of jolt people awake. And you might even start off with a joke to bring some levity to the meeting, especially because people are probably used to hearing bad news all day. My favorite joke recently was “why are people... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
sons whose mothers were employed spend more time caring for family members, a much-cited working paper by Professor Kathleen McGinn, Elizabeth Long Lingo (PhDOB 2005), and their coauthor found. Darrell Huntsman (MBA 1998) founded the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
taught me great discipline in how to study, how to prepare, how to think,” he says. Upon graduation he joined the paper and packaging company Rand-Whitney. From there, he and his sons created The Kraft Group, which controls holdings in... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
in the morning” — Parker missed managing people, not a priority for junior investment bankers. “I realized that money, by itself, was not enough of a motivator for me.” (He came to the same conclusion after writing a 100-page self-assessment View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
pitching. Her 2014 paper on the topic produced headlines: Investors prefer attractive men. Even when the content of the pitches—as observed both in lab experiments and in the field—was the same, attractive men were significantly more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
assistant professor in the Finance Unit. They detail their proposal in a paper titled “The Economics of Housing Finance Reform: Privatizing, Regulating, and Backstopping Mortgage Markets.” Scharfstein recently answered questions about the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
vocals, and precision highs. We’re pretty excited about that, and we think our customers will be too. We’ve recently brought our product development process in-house, so instead of sourcing products in Asia, we can take a concept from a blank sheet of View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
nature, he says, so “this is about designing a financial system that can save us from our own worst tendencies.” To illustrate, Hanson points to a paper he coauthored with Robin Greenwood that revealed lessons about the mix of firms that... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
public health, State agencies, any university researchers, graduate students or full professors, doesn't make any difference. We've made it very open for people to come in and participate in that organization. The first big project that we embarked on was to create a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
the Student Association, Herrero was impressed by what he saw of HBS as an institution. After graduation, he served as a president and board member of the HBS Club (later the Harvard Club) of Argentina. Following a long and successful career in the textile and View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
(both MBA 1996) proposed the contest as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. “We looked at it as not just a theoretical paper for class but a sustainable plan,” says Wagonfeld, who was then... View Details