Natural Language Processing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2000
News

The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum

will soon move from HTML programming language to XML. Ballmer stated that this shift would alter the current Internet balance of power in which consumers are in a reactive position as they relate to company (or "publisher's") Web sites.... View Details

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

emerging market entities as imitators. (Cases of bio-piracy indicate the opposite.) From a practical perspective, they wanted to suss out factors that might thwart bio-piracy altogether. In a series of new papers, the researchers trace a significant historical shift in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

Profile

Michael Maples

managerial capitalism, an entire new language of business had to be created. We take that language for granted today. I believe that a hundred years from now, the very language... View Details

May 2011
Article

The Growing Power of Non-financial Reports

By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim

We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance in terms of social, environmental and governance issues. In a breakthrough study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory... View Details

Keywords: Value; Reports; Performance; Management Practices and Processes; Globalization; Power and Influence; Natural Environment; Governance; Social Issues

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24 Mar 2022
News

Well Said

quickly noticed a disconnect between the English language of an Albanian classroom and the one spoken in a New Haven dorm room, with classmates constantly asking her to repeat herself. Inspired by her experiences both in personal and... View Details

Profile

Yubo Cui

precise as possible by determining demand and building only what was absolutely necessary.” In addition to the language barriers, the two companies faced a clash of cultures. “The Germans took pride in tradition and quality,” Yubo says.... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

01 Feb 2002
News

Church on Sunday, Work on Monday

marketplace on people's lives. The authors believe there are deep differences of worldview and language that need to be addressed before church and business professionals can truly communicate on this problem. "The church could be one of... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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1.10 Cross-Registration | MBA

Cross-registration takes place at the beginning of the term in which the course is offered. Availability may be limited at the host school, and it may not be possible to be placed in all courses of interest. Due to the intensive nature of... View Details

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

like a renewed democratic process and appropriate regulatory regimes. I believe that these problems are usually best dealt with by the state, but in many cases that is not happening." Moreover the private sector has resources and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Profile

Rye Barcott

provided the scholarship for his education, Rye studied Swahili and, in his junior year at the University of North Carolina, took his new language skills to Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in the world. "I lived in... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

Hamermesh continues. “The bad news is that the processes involved in delivering care haven’t kept pace with those advances.” “This is our way of having an immediate impact on practice,” says Professor Richard Bohmer, faculty chair of MHCD... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

to as "user-centered design." Yet, analysis of design-intensive manufacturers such as Alessi, Artemide and other leading Italian firms, show that their innovation process hardly starts from a close observation of user needs and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBS - From The Dean

community, listening to their hopes and dreams for our future. I believe in the power of data, and so I poured my notes from those conversations into a natural language processor to organize and analyze the... View Details

10 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: EF Education First

CEO, Chief of Staff, and other business leaders. Give us your elevator pitch – what is the one thing students should know about working for you? If you are passionate about the business of travel, language learning, or education, and have... View Details

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

successfully completed by thousands of students worldwide. It explains concepts in simple language with illustrative examples, provides review questions and quizzes after each chapter and section, contains two full-length practice exams... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

categories assigned value? One of the first studies of value construction as a detailed process in new market categories has been written by Mukti Khaire, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and R. Daniel Wadhwani, an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2011
What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

Summing Up The variety of responses stimulated by this month's column may help explain why our public institutions are so often perceived as responding slowly to natural or man-made "meltdowns." First, as Ravindra Edirisooriya... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

June 2001 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Plum Creek Timber (B)

By: Max H. Bazerman, Jack Troast, Hannah Bowles and Nicole Nasser

Plum Creek Timber Co. decides to go ahead with negotiations for a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) on its Pacific Northwest properties. HCP represents a new form of public-private-sector collaboration and innovation to improve upon command-and-control environmental... View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Government Relations; Forest Products Industry; United States