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  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

than 10 months of cash on hand, Tom Leung, the founder and CEO of Yabbly, must decide where to focus his resources. His startup, a question-and-answer application for shopping decisions, had benefited from a strong showing at the SXSW... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses and (2) application and removal of three different casts in the orthopedic cast room. Students calculate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2018
  • News

Source Code

moment of saying, ‘Every banker’s going to have one of those things,’ ” she says. VisiCalc was presented on an Apple computer, and Dubinsky—not knowing the difference between hardware and software back then—saw the machine’s logo and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg
  • 18 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

experience with skin tone-matching technology and samples; CareTech (Vivek Agrawal, Felicia Hanitio, and Mili Sanwalka), a personalized learning platform for domestic care workers; and Space Factory (Conan Cooper, Cyrus Hessabi, Malory McLemore, and Aaron Yang), View Details
  • October 2018
  • Case

American Family Insurance and the Artificial Intelligence Opportunity

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Automation; Analytics; American Family; American Family Insurance; Insurance; Business Organization; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk and Uncertainty; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Transformation; Insurance Industry; Technology Industry; Wisconsin
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  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712442-PDF-ENG Ensighten Lena G. Goldberg, and Michael J. RobertsHarvard Business School Case 812-050 Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019

expenses in fiscal 2019. Consequently, controlling IT costs is an important financial priority for the School. Initiatives currently underway include shifting toward reliance on software as a service platforms and away from custom View Details
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

Cooke, Mario D. Parrilli, and José L. Curbelo. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012 Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=US&id=14530 Evaluating the Impact of the Mozilla View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including the simple matching estimator, in the presence of clustering.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

for reducing waste, requires a modular approach to construction with extensive prefabrication. This also makes it possible to embed technology, such as sensors and actuators, into the very fabric of the building. But the greatest contribution of technology is through... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

the world after COVID-19 and will perhaps expand further. I believe that startups that offer technology and software that enable physicians to confidently practice medicine from afar will become more valuable. My sense is that this trend... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 09 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

School Case 515-052 Philips Healthcare: Marketing the HealthSuite Digital Platform In June 2014, leading healthcare and consumer technology company Royal Philips (Philips) announced its HealthSuite Digital Platform to house healthcare data and enable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

interpersonal team diversity. Using detailed project—and individual-level data from an Indian software services firm, we find that the interaction of task change with intrapersonal diversity is related to improved project performance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

highly efficient, and environmentally friendly service anywhere in the country through a national network of independent waste haulers and recyclers. A player in the sharing economy, Rubicon was developing an on-demand mobile application... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire outside specialists to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing staff to perform these functions.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Print View - Course Catalog

Intelligence (AI) – Bringing the cost of cognition to zero (approximately 50 percent of class sessions): We cover the application of AI to a number of early and late stage companies and look at the ways in which AI can be used and... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

product dubbed a “wearables game changer”; and enjoyed a loyal customer base, particularly among technology early adopters and the community of software developers that created applications and watch faces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne