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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
program is a huge source of data for us about what is going on in the world," says SPNM faculty chair Herman ("Dutch") Leonard, the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at HBS. "The participants bring literally... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
better than the real-life me. They can start and stop and repeat me at will. How does Khan Academy change the standard classroom we all know? The nearby Los Altos school system, for one, is using Khan Academy on an experimental basis. It’s early, but View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
for soccer fans, FirstRowSports. The NFL’s as-yet-unnamed foray into online streaming will test the waters with an October 25 game only available online. The cable and telecom industry has taken note, evidenced by its heavy lobbying... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
each other. They do that today. They’ll ask for somebody to Photoshop a photo and tip them $5 with very informal mechanisms. We didn’t quite think about data licensing—that’s a business now, which we’ll talk about later. And then we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
otherwise take a decade to diagnose. But NextGen Jane is building more diseases into the pipelines. “There are so many understudied areas in women’s health we could explore,” Tariyal says. Illustration by Marcos Chin The Question: “The first View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
situations that test both of these abilities every day. “I’ve always tried to take stock of what opportunities were present in my life, and that’s my style of running the business, too,” he explains. “There is no roadmap for how we’re... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
lenders a better understanding of both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. Based on psychometrics research conducted at the Harvard Center for International Development, the questions on this test seek not to mimic the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
groups, and proprietary data sets in the market researcher’s toolbox, Ayelet Israeli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor, and her coauthors noted in a recent working paper. In a study that utilized GPT- 3.5, a predecessor to GPT-4, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Revolutionizing digital medical records
A two-time entrepreneur at 79 years old, Merle Bushkin (MBA 1960) created MedKaz, a unique system that encapsulates a lifetime of medical data on a keychain device. It gives patients control over their complete medical record from all... View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
challenge. In 2012, she launched the Intrinsic Schools, a network of public charter schools with an innovative approach to the middle school and high school experience. Rather than employ the data from standardized View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
In April, Dean Kim B. Clark announced that Harvard Business School will add the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) to the portfolio of criteria used to evaluate a candidate's application to the MBA Program, effective for... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
data and machine learning to improve health care. Kelley, who recently received a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS, aims to bring fast and accurate diagnoses to cancer patients around the world. “The majority... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
In Zambia and Uganda, it partnered with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Ministries of Health to test new policies in HIV, malaria, and maternal health. IDinsight has also worked in Cambodia and Rwanda and in other sectors... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
ordered not to eat anything in advance of a test but was still given his usual dose of insulin. At hospitals that have modern IT systems, when food is being withheld for studies, corrected insulin orders are automatically suggested in the... View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
experience. Rather than using the data from standardized tests (which are unpopular with both parents and teachers), and applying it to a school or grade or classroom en masse, Intrinsic employs it to... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
the classroom, in the form of Khan Lab School, an educational “R&D lab” in Mountain View, California. The fact that the school goes year-round – meaning there’s no summer vacation, kids – is just the beginning of how different the program is here. In addition to View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
testing in Canada, and how Canadian hospitals handled surges and so on,” says club president Kazi Ahmed “It was a great opportunity for our club to strengthen our relationship with the Cleveland Clinic.” According to the club’s board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed decisions using View Details