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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
For one thing, Black hosts were underrepresented in the data that was used to train the algorithm. What’s more, says Zhang, societal bias may result in different demand curves for Black-owned properties versus white-owned ones. Renters... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
1968 at the age of 30. In this environment, the company, now the world's fourth-largest maker of motorized scooters, three-wheel vehicles, and motorcycles—India's most common forms of transportation—was limited to producing just 20,000 units a year. Supply and View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
second-year MBA course Reimagining Capitalism in 2012, Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, has been helping students explore the roles that the corporation and its leaders can play in addressing these existential crises. View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
in losses suffered mostly by poor farmers in developing countries. They have made a huge sacrifice. However, culling as a protective measure occurs unevenly across countries. Does a market-based system adequately respond to the need for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
taught by Professor Ross Graham Walker and others, a company’s numbers had value far beyond mere record-keeping. Statistical data could instead be used proactively as a general management tool for analyzing an organization’s production and operations and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
financial stability in countries worldwide—information that researchers hope could help prevent a potential crisis. Regulations have also helped enforce resiliency, including a measure forcing banks to hold at least twice—in some cases... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
million shares raising $5.47 billion. “In addition to the financial analysis there’s a lot of judgment involved in deciding where to price an offering. You may have an oversubscribed deal, but how far should you push it? It’s not a simple supply and View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
would serve for three years, from 2012 to early 2015, leading the country through some of the worst years of the crisis. His government was tasked with implementing the austerity measures demanded by its... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Skullcandy products are currently distributed in over 70 countries, a number that expands every month. So a major challenge for us is how to establish our brand in each local market. Good brands are globally consistent, but they’re locally relevant. We have to build... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Beth Terrana clocked the seventy-hour weeks demanded of someone in her position. “I’d get home from work, eat dinner with my family, put the kids to bed, and work until 1 a.m. I was in a constant state of exhaustion,” she recalls. Then,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
With demand growing, Khan eventually left his full-time job as a hedge fund analyst to devote himself full-time to Khan Academy, bootstrapping it for the first nine months before receiving early support from Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976),... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
of realistic, technology-agnostic best practices for supporting hypergrowth in nearly any environment. In this new edition, they add many new examples, plus case studies from many exceptionally demanding sites, including Etsy, Nasdaq,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
you with a stinging rebuke. When informed that his demand for a 30 percent annual return was unrealistic, despite assurances to the contrary from his bank’s investment adviser, the retiree groused: “If you guys from Harvard Business... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
changed the world. In this book, Doerr identifies the measurable OKRs we need to reduce emissions across the board and to arrive by 2050 at net zero—the point where we are no longer adding to the heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
these trends? Professor Regina Herzlinger on creating breakthrough services, products, and business models in health care Consumers are busy. It used to be that we called health care consumers “patients,” as in “wait and be patient.” But hard-working consumers are... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
right to nominate directors into something that is real — and has a real chance of holding boards of directors accountable to company owners.” Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding... View Details