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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
schools seeking to hire new professors. In the stories that follow, the Bulletin presents four members of the next generation of business education leaders, a group as diverse in their backgrounds and interests as they are committed to what one student calls "the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods, published in the journal Organization Science, Nagle interviewed technology professionals and examined data from the Linux Foundation on... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
own emissions based on their spending data they could be spending less or more in any given month, so people who emit less might pay as little as $10 a month. For instance, students who have lower credit card purchases or people who have... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
enough data and information to do so. Plans, and the corresponding KPIs and other metrics that will empower your team to execute them, should be adjusted to address the company’s immediate needs and short-term goals, and communicated... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
trying out business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often discover that intuition, experience, and big data alone don’t work. What does work? Running disciplined... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
direct competition with each other elicit size effects: consumers like small brands more when they compete with big brands and like big brands less when they compete with small brands. We further explore the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
members of the platform community policing themselves? Facebook, for example, has about 30,000 people working on curation of the Facebook platform. The problem is there are more than 2.5 billion users. Thirty thousand people, even with the help of AI and sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
initial interviews, however, we kept hearing the same concern: "Thank goodness you folks are doing this. All of us collectively need to take a hard look at the state of business education." Srikant Datar: With that prompting, we expanded our efforts. We collected... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
is highlighted in her new book: Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream. KEY THEMES Small business is critical to the American economy. Artificial intelligence and big data will transform financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
that sold them on Casper—it was the numbers. The company had tested well in a revolutionary predictive model built by the venture firm. The idea to vet possible investments in such a way hit Coats about a decade ago: Maybe, he figured, he could use View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
digitalization and data science and artificial intelligence are deployed as management and business tools,” Lakhani explains. And that means HBS needs to think differently, too. Enter the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
algorithms that have been supercharged with more data and computing power, she says. “It’s not that they aren’t accomplishing interesting things—they are,” she notes. “But they’re not doing it in a way that your brain does it. So the next... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
first intranet for a Fortune 50 company. “That was my first exposure to the way innovative data management can transform a big organization,” she notes. “When I went on to HBS, that seed had definitely been... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
specialized expertise to the process—which some worry might create subject-area bias in the decision-making process and affect the quality of research. Assistant Professor Danielle Li takes a mathematical approach to examining this issue in a recent HBS working paper,... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
impact the public sector,” she says. This is, admittedly, a daunting undertaking that will require untold amounts of data and research — and funding. But Sadun says that’s a credit to another unique characteristic of her work-place. “HBS... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
they're really disassociated from the brain and the brain's neuroanatomy. They are very focused on what is really decades old algorithms that they have advanced and applied data and applied technology to solve some very View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
higher than inflation of the competing currency(ies). I also don’t understand how it can be “legal” tender for any period of time since, in general, governments want to control everything, especially money, if possible. — Pete Pifer (PMD 20, 1970) Another View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
orders, the relationship is yours to lose. Handing over the last mile to someone else would be a big mistake." Fortunately, bulk orders make it easy for BulkWhiz to justify deliveries. But it's the transparent View Details