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- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the health of communities around the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Illustration by Mengxin Li After years of speculation, 2020 was meant to be a big year for the implementation of 5G, the fifth generation of standards for broadband cellular networks. And somewhere between a pandemic and a mountain of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Accelerating Research in China
of the world will be critical for future economic growth. “Harvard Business School can play a key role in shaping aspects of these global economic relationships,” says Plummer, the chief strategy officer at TalkingData, China’s leading mobile View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
stakes for advertisers are huge. Americans were exposed to over 5.3 billion online video ads in July 2011 alone, with Hulu generating the highest number of video ad impressions at more than 963 million, according to data from comScore. So... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
Internet” — a term GE uses to describe how to use software and data to make machines smarter and more interactive. “He was miles ahead of the world in terms of redefining us as a digital company,” Flannery told employees on Monday. Immelt... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
popular in the 1950s and ’60s as a way of sifting through bulging applicant pools. After researchers questioned its reliability, testing fell out of use in favor of personal interviews. Now, with the emergence of big data, machine testing... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
the pass-through of both gas prices and nominal exchange rate fluctuations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54935 forthcoming Consumption, Markets & Culture Big Data By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Security & Privacy | Information Technology
Security & Privacy We all have a role to play in protecting Harvard Business School’s (HBS’s) data and systems—and our own. Practicing good security habits is always important, especially so in times of heightened risk. The following... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
they too often are based on the wrong things, what he calls the "noise" (short-term stock market action) rather than the "signal" embedded in the noise (long-term secular trends in the market). In his view, the problem may grow as the era of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
he seeks counsel from a panel of advisers, resulting in a wealth of teaching moments. Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right by Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville (Harvard Business Review... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
technology to deliver books to children all over the world. “I always think life is this combination of romance and practicality,” he explains. “And the romance was, maybe we can do something really big and really affirming and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
number of Harvard Business School Online courses, such as Global Business and Leading with Finance, as well as in a data science bootcamp designed to teach students how to leverage big View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
expressed the frustration that many people in the biotech industry feel as he clicked through the depressing data in gloomy graphs on a big screen. "It's not a very profitable sector of the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
systems, the influence of cryptography tools and big data on financial services, the deployment of different forms of capital into Web3 startups, and the ways in which blockchain technology will disrupt... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
Why They Buy The first big puzzle Professor Clay Christensen tackled when he joined the HBS faculty in 1992 was an elemental one: Why was success so hard for businesses to sustain? The search led to his theory of disruptive innovation,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
part, Serafeim studies how companies should respond to big problems—such as corruption or climate change—in order to sustain their competitiveness and how investors should integrate nonfinancial (environmental, social, and governance)... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
KarimLakhani Digital Task Force Chair Professor Karim Lakhani and a task force of 36 faculty and staff from across HBS, charged with envisioning a new digital future for the School, have mapped a path for digital transformation. The direction they have set is based on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Career Coach
Madhav Datt
problem, validating with users, building an MVP; (2) big tech recruiting - Madhav conducted over 50 interviews for candidate at Google; and (3) navigating hedge fund recruiting - understanding what funds are best fit for you, preparing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
malicious third party. “Push the RedSeal button, and the system says, ‘Ah, we know where that is,’ ” says Rothrock. “It’s this server right here, and here are the data servers that will be attacked next. Here’s how to fix it.” Fix it—not... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai