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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Dressing by Number
of expertly picked goodies delivered to your door. (True story: That “aha” moment came courtesy of a delivery of farmer-endorsed seasonal veggies.) Now she’s translated that idea into Stitch Fix, the Pandora of fashion. This rapidly growing View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
all time. Data analytics firm Similar Web reported that in its first week alone, the app had been installed on nearly 11 percent of all Android phones in the United States, and surpassed Twitter’s daily usage shortly thereafter. Pokémon... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
IT WAS A CRITICAL demonstration that, if all went well, would likely land a big-time client for Gary Mueller, president and CEO of Internet Securities (www.securities.com), an online service designed to provide news and View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
really important, challenging problems is for me the single most important place to be investing in the next decade,” he said, adding he recently invested in Headspace, a company that provides guided meditation sessions online or through... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- Fast Answer
Web traffic statistics
demographics, geography and lifestyle information. Other resources to try: Article databases such as Factiva. Search for [website name] and Nielsen to find data... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
TripAdvisor demonstrates the reach and power of recommendation services for consumers: it has become the world’s largest travel site with 340 million unique monthly visitors and 350 million reviews online covering 6.5 million hotels,... View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
Staff Directory Chelsea Barrett Research Data Acquisition Specialist Baker Research & Data Services Areas of Expertise: data licensing and vendor relationships, View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
like to give is, ‘Would you get a better read out of someone’s weight if you asked them how much they weigh, or if you just put them on the scale?’ ” says Polli. The online game interactions are precisely timed, so they also offer greater... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
$1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
Administration, made educating students “to use data for judgment, and judgment for data” one of the top three priorities guiding the MBA curriculum. “AI is not just displacing human workers—it is changing the nature of firms, how they... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
businessman, he also saw the medical industry’s lost opportunity. The solution, Jarzabek says, is Trustedoctor’s secure online platform that streamlines communication between inbound patients and doctors. Hospitals that adopt the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
technology to erase debt CEO and cofounder Rohan Pavuluri (AB 2018) was inspired to launch Upsolve, which helps low-income and working-class families overcome financial distress, after learning that a bankruptcy lawyer costs a prohibitive average of $1,500. What began... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
always outpace static compliance requirements, so trying to meet them amounts to a misallocation of resources, often costly and with little promise of better security. The ever-increasing data gathered by Internet giants such as Google... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
do not waste. I hope it truly brings predictability to innovation that historically we just have not had before. Why do managers ignore the motivations of their customers? Is part of it because they are now awash with data and fetishize... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
to work in your favor for that next job. And privacy disclosure notices on websites, rather than convincing consumers that their private data is well protected, can make them less likely to make a purchase. Here is recent research on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary employee View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel