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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
use of AI in everything from facial recognition to predictive sentencing. She found it nonetheless. The online rental platform uses its pricing tool to increase host revenues by dynamically adjusting rental prices according to demand.... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
of data from this survey highlights the need for business leaders, policymakers, and academics to collaborate on practical ways to make progress,” something well within the nation’s reach, he added. In fact, the Project seeks to inspire... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million reviews. Today, it has more than 71 million reviews, and the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
taught in a practitioner structure, so that when you enter the workforce, you look a lot more like a fifth-year teacher than a first-year teacher. Our third layer that I think has the most systems-level potential is this data play. So the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
of business and society is changing not only how we work and live, but also how we tackle the toughest issues. Lakhani oversees the Crowd Innovation Lab, a Harvard University initiative focused on crowdsourcing. He conducts field experiments using View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
eyeballs affect the quality and subject matter of online content? Bloggers Analyzed For their study, the pair drew on a data set from a leading Chinese media website that offers a range of services,... View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise
is a good lead for further data tracking. Business and management literature ABI/ProQuest - best for finding articles on all aspect of business and management topics including some company SWOT analysis. Covers industry and... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
chart from the same two years. Chances are, those two charts look pretty similar. Sure, there are organizational outliers, like online shoe-seller Zappos, which famously adopted “holacracy,” a structure of no job titles and no... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
particular issue or set of questions to be explored through experimentation, observation, and analysis. The principal investigators are assisted by doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, data scientists, visiting... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
817-095 Yemeksepeti: Growing and Expanding the Business Model Through Data In October 2016, Nevzat Aydin, co-founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti, the Turkish online food-ordering company, was looking over the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
going to help fill a gap for those people who find themselves without a job and want to learn a new skill or brush up on an old skill to make themselves more competitive. I hope it’ll help people get employed faster or even pivot to a new career. Our own View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a Korean scientist living in Silicon Valley, so I spent a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
even seven figures because their expertise is just so valuable.” What does a digitization/tech economist do every day? Problems they work on include: Online advertising design. Advertising inventory on search engines is often sold via... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus
(WSJ photo illustration) (WSJ photo illustration) The online fashion innovator Rent the Runway—brainchild of Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss (both MBA 2009)—is continuing to go brick-and-mortar. The Wall Street Journal details the new... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
Don’t let the fact that first-year MBA students immerse themselves in the beer industry fool you—they are learning about product development by participating in an online simulation. In fact, the use and complexity of simulations in the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
platform. We merge online with offline data, adding exogenous factors, like the weather, to identify targeting opportunities based on customer behavior." BulkWhiz is now raising Series A funding for three objectives: develop AI technology... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
higher-priced items first can simultaneously increase the average selling price and the overall purchase rate. We test these predictions in a series of field experiments conducted with an online fashion and apparel retailer. Using... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Global Climate Change
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
relationships; OkCupid, founded in 2004, which popularized the idea that data could solve the dating dilemma; and niche sites from JDate and ChristianMingle to FarmersOnly. The number and diversity of the sites helped reduce the stigma... View Details
Keywords: April White