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  • 03 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund

the same time, students get a valuable learning experience which prepares them for careers in impact investing. Conception Originally conceived in Spring 2020, the objective of the impact fund project was to explore options for setting up... View Details
  • Web

Field Course: Venture Capital Journey - Course Catalog

superseded by this course. In VCJ, students will learn all aspects of the venture capital process, including: Deal sourcing Developing an investment thesis Conducting due diligence Investment decision making Determining valuation and... View Details
  • Career Coach

Troy Peterson

an uncommon intention for a military veteran with a history degree: to jump into the tech world and work in product. After working through challenges getting & preparing for tech interviews, Troy joined a team at Facebook building industry-leading View Details
  • Profile

Pranav Kothari

Curiosity has always propelled Pranav Kothari. As a child in India, he was intrigued by his family's wholesale textile business. "I was always interested in how things work, how they're made, how machines produce," Pranav says.... View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

CRM and AI in Time of Crisis

By: Michelle Y. Lu and Navid Mojir
A crisis can affect the incentives of various players within a firm’s multi-layered sales and marketing organization (e.g., headquarters and branches of a bank). Such shifts can result in sales decisions against the firm’s best interests. Motivated by the backlash to... View Details
Keywords: CRM; Artificial Intelligence; AI; B2B Marketing; Decision Authority; Crisis Marketing; Intra-organizational Conflict; COVID-19 Pandemic; Customer Relationship Management; Technological Innovation; Decision Making; Strategy; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; AI and Machine Learning
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  • October 2018
  • Case

Shield AI

By: Mitchell Weiss and A.J. Steinlage
Shield AI’s quadcopter – with no pilot and no flight plan – could clear a building and outpace human warfighters by almost five minutes. This was not to say that it was better than the warfighters or would replace their jobs, but it was evidence that autonomous robots... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Artificial Intelligence; AI; Entrepreneurial Sales; Government; Defense; Shield AI; Brandon Tseng; Ryan Tseng; Andrew Reiter; Robots; Robotics; UAV; UAVs; Government Sales; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Sales; Government Administration; National Security; Business and Government Relations; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Facing Ambiguity

tragedy. “Most disasters, when you look into them, had smaller indicators of what might happen along the way,” says Edmondson. “We often downplay early warnings and wait to see what will happen. You almost have to go against your instincts and aggressively View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Space Research and Technology; Government
  • 2024
  • Book

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen G. Mills
The second edition of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, builds on the groundbreaking 2019 book with new insights on how technology and artificial intelligence are transforming small business lending. This ambitious view covers the significance of... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; AI; AI and Machine Learning; Small Business; Economy; Technology Adoption; Credit; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities

By: David S. Scharfstein and Sergey Chernenko
We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement bias in... View Details
Keywords: Racial Disparity; Paycheck Protection Program; Measurement Error; AI and Machine Learning; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Forecasting and Prediction; Outcome or Result
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  • October 2019
  • Case

Feeling Machines: Emotion AI at Affectiva

By: Shane Greenstein and John Masko
In 2016, Affectiva—a Boston-based emotion AI software company with a long track record of building emotion-sensing software for market research—had attempted to expand into new verticals by releasing a mobile software development kit (SDK) that downloaders could adapt... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Market Research; Business Model; Finance; Revenue; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Market Entry and Exit; Applications and Software; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • 19 Aug 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

stand to gain from quantum computing are paying attention. In addition to BASF, Merck, and LG, the chip manufacturer NVIDIA, which produces the digital GPUs that power AI systems, is working with SEEQC to integrate the startup’s quantum chips into its View Details
  • 20 Mar 2017
  • Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

on what the company wants to achieve in their business model. Machine learning is one of the new core technologies that allow for data science. Many companies are relying on it for their advances. Google,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jan 2019
  • What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

inputs to machine learning and the creation of artificial intelligence. Each of these related fields of activity and opportunity encompasses a wide swath of the economy. Together, they describe a sector that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

think the technical SEAS programming would have been a value add to your MBA? "I think the technical programming would have added huge value. Many of the methods in data science and machine learning... View Details
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Who We Are | Research Associates

ask—and answer—meaningful questions. Some of our researchers arrive at Harvard Business School (HBS) as seasoned professionals. Others are recent graduates. It could be your experience with statistical methods or machine View Details
  • Student-Profile

Talia Gillis

Arts and Sciences and of HBS. The primary responsibility for the program’s coursework is with the Economics Department and supervision of Business Economics doctorates is partially by professors in the Economics Department. The uniqueness... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • News

Stick with Plan A

interest to me. Fortunately, I got in." HBS provided the frame of reference that Maddy was lacking. "I have applied quite a lot of what I learned to my career," she says. "For me, the discipline that the case-study methodology teaches has... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications
  • Profile

Rob Casper

As a Marine captain with experience in the Middle East, East Asia, and Afghanistan, Rob Casper has learned to learn from mistakes. “When I went into the Philippines, I had what I thought was a brilliant plan... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2013
  • News

Engineering a More Secure World

Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and motivating teams, citing... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services