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- October 2018
- Case
BreezoMeter: Making Air Pollution Data Actionable
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Allison M. Ciechanover and Margot Eiran
The case focuses on an Israeli startup that provides actionable air pollution data and forecasts. The company has over 50 enterprise customers and its tool reached a million people daily in 67 countries. The co-founders wrestle with which markets and customers to focus... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Pollutants; Analytics and Data Science; Sales; Marketing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technology Industry; Israel; United States
Cespedes, Frank V., Allison M. Ciechanover, and Margot Eiran. "BreezoMeter: Making Air Pollution Data Actionable." Harvard Business School Case 819-058, October 2018.
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
Mookerjee recently served as managing director of Capital One’s Asia business ventures, based in Bangalore, India. When that assignment ended in June 2004, he decided to remain with his family in India and subsequently launched an View Details
Melody Koh
Apron as the first product hire when the company was 18 months old with 20 HQ employees. She helped scale the business through hyper-growth (25x in 3.5 years) and to its IPO, building and leading a 35-person team across Product... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- 12 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get
read so that anyone can understand what they did. But they often don’t.” Jonathan Tamblyn, the head of talent at L2, a consumer products digital marketing firm, sees the challenge through the lens of cutting-edge companies that have special or unusual demands. “Because... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
about the field of manufacturing, Union describes the pure pleasure of making a tangible, useful product. “Manufacturing offers so many analytical and intellectual challenges,” she adds. “It’s extremely satisfying to build a corporate... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- Fast Answer
Transforming Health Care Delivery
href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/guidestar.html" target="_blank">GuideStar Pro - Information about the missions, programs, and finances of more than 1.7 million nonprofit organizations. View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Countdown To Remote Learning
was a big undertaking, as most of them had never taught online before. “HBS has the highest teaching standards. We don’t like to do anything that isn’t phenomenal,” explains Datar. Fortunately, HBS had gained valuable experience and insights from co-developing the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development When I started my journey at Harvard Business School, I was eager to broaden my business knowledge... View Details
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
argues Timothy Butler, senior fellow and faculty advisor to Career and Professional Development Programs at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on career decision making. In this interview, Butler discusses his new book, The... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text Analysis: Discovering CEO Oral Communication Styles
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Dan Wang, Natalie A. Carlson and Tarun Khanna
We demonstrate how a novel synthesis of three methods—(1) unsupervised topic modeling of text data to generate new measures of textual variance, (2) sentiment analysis of text data, and (3) supervised ML coding of facial images with a cutting-edge convolutional neural... View Details
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Dan Wang, Natalie A. Carlson, and Tarun Khanna. "Machine Learning Approaches to Facial and Text Analysis: Discovering CEO Oral Communication Styles." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-064, January 2018. (Revised May 2019.)
- 19 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
About the MBA/MPA-ID Harvard Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA-ID) is designed to prepare the next generation of leaders in international development. It is an economics-centered, multidisciplinary program combining... View Details
- Profile
Vivek Garg
industries. "They bring ways of thinking about organizational issues from a variety of economic perspectives," says Vivek. "Their lessons can be applied to health care as well." Specifically, Vivek wants to accumulate experience in View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor... View Details
- Web
From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice | Baker Library
From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice Portrait of Phyllis Cary, 1954. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. TC 172-5-1 Jane Clifton completes field work at John Hancock Life Insurance Company for the Harvard... View Details
History's Guiding Light
entrepreneurs and business leaders from across emerging markets, was a goldmine. It allowed me to explore questions on emerging market business issues from the eyes of those on the ground. CEM also provided... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
As chair of the public health committee in the Massachusetts legislature, state senator Jason Lewis (MBA 1995) focuses on promoting prevention and wellness. In this video, he talks about applying his business training to public policy... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Embracing Digital Transformation
Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan Leaders today, in every sector and around the world, are grappling with the opportunities and challenges of digital innovation—from artificial intelligence to machine learning to data analytics and... View Details
- August 2012
- Article
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Subsidiaries; Production; Finance; Performance; Ownership
Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4, no. 3 (August 2012): 30–55. (Also NBER Working Paper No. 17141.)
Carissa Bryce Christensen
Carissa Bryce Christensen is the founder and CEO of BryceTech LLC, an analytics and engineering firm serving clients with deep tech-enabled missions, including NASA and the US Department of Defense. Known for driving strategy with... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna