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- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing problem in retail worldwide.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
resilient, and it’s quite flexible. These are things to build on. We wouldn’t want anybody to interpret what we are saying as the sky is falling. While there are some issues around policy, and there are some issues around management, it’s... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
and professor Josh Lerner draw on their extensive research on venture capital organizations to illuminate the workings of this important industry. In a series of interpretative essays, the book expands on common themes in research they... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
of scientific inquiry in gene-based hearing loss and inner-ear drug delivery: “In some infants with profound hearing impairment, there’s a mutation in one of those genes that results in loss of a protein that inner-ear cells need to convert sound waves into electrical... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
around in my car and heard some great interpretations of Christmas songs. Then they played one for Hanukkah, but it was just so blah. I went home and started tickling the ivories, so to speak.” Map it out: “At HBS, Ben Shapiro was a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Professor Davenport and his coauthor offer practical tools to improve understanding of data analytics and enhance managerial thinking and decision-making, including the crucial skills of how to formulate a hypothesis, gather and analyze relevant data, View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Now there seems to be a third group, which is just trying to figure out what is going on. That group hasn’t been served very well by this tendency for people to interpret information in this heroic way, to make everything more extreme.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan made you a better manager? Before I came to Japan, I was not a great listener. Here, 99 percent of my meetings are in Japanese; I have a full-time interpreter and spend practically the whole day wired up with an earpiece. Because of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
creative when they are engaged in aspects of their work that they find intrinsically rewarding? Yes, and that is probably the most fundamental and enduring discovery of my thirty-year career of studying creativity. But “enjoyment” shouldn’t be View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
for solutions to make the next generation of microfinance tools even more transformative. One of the great surprises of microfinance has been the astonishingly high rates of loan repayment, at around 96 or 98 percent. How do you interpret... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
might be important to think about when we’re interpreting SAT scores. Since then, I’ve been able to go back to the field, with that knowledge from the lab, and look at how policies that reduced skipping among test-takers—removing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
letter aloud to him. The black activist strongly urged the chief executive to keep it to himself. If he sent it, Douglass said, the missive would be interpreted “as a complete surrender of your anti-slavery policy, and do you serious... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
Then you have the self-improvement people who can’t read and interpret the science, and some of it’s wrong. Where it is really exciting now is the seam between science and self-improvement, and that’s what I’m working on. In the course... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
develop a personal investment blueprint, design a solid financial plan to help you gain number clarity, hire an advisor who understands you and values your voice at the table, interpret the mumbo jumbo of investment language, and pull it... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
political risk. When it comes to territory, there will be some differences of opinion among geologists, I think, in interpreting the shape, structure, and composition of certain parts of the Arctic Ocean floor. Some experts have said the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards, 99.7 percent win election. Also, thanks to the Delaware courts’... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
justify the investment. While HBS remains a leader in the field, Nohria observed that “you need to worry when the health of the whole field doesn’t look promising, even when you are at the top.” The third interpretation of inflection... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
been widely interpreted as a way to signal China’s stance on safety issues in the wake of the melamine contamination and other lapses, such as the deaths in 2004 of thirteen babies in rural Anhui Province from malnutrition after being fed... View Details