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  • 24 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

dive deep into a topic via the HBS case method and open discussion approach, to engage with faculty and other experts in the room on specific, far-reaching topics, and to learn by example of businesses making change and using different... View Details
  • 13 Jul 2020
  • News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

Courtesy Meaghan Fitzgerald How did you become interested in virtual reality (VR)? “I have always been a fan of sci-fi and future tech. VR seemed to hold this promise of being something between a teleportation machine and a future... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

themselves to understanding the needs of less-affluent customers and using this knowledge to devise creative solutions to customer problems. Employees of China's Haier, for example, discovered through visiting rural customers that they frequently used their washing... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • January 2025
  • Case

AI Meets VC: The Data-Driven Revolution at Quantum Light Capital

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
Ilya Kondrashov, CEO of Quantum Light Capital, was driven to harness AI for identifying high-potential scale-ups. Collaborating with Nik Storonsky, founder of Revolut, the duo observed that most venture capital (VC) decisions were heavily influenced by emotion, with... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Business Finance; Data Analysis; Angel Investors; Cognitive Biases; Scale; Venture Capital; Investment; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Public Opinion; Private Sector; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Business Earnings; Behavioral Finance; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; London; United Kingdom
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  • February 2025
  • Supplement

Intenseye: Powering Workplace Health and Safety with AI (B)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Shane Greenstein and Sadika El Hariri
Intenseye used its $25 million series A funds to refine and expand its digital safety platform while refining its target markets and ideal customer profile. As the company implemented new approaches to create value for its clients, such as developing an AI-powered... View Details
Keywords: Safety Performance; Occupational Safety; Innovation; Safety; Operations; Health; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Digital Transformation; Supply Chain Management; Performance Improvement; Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Customer Relationship Management; Value Creation; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; United States; Europe; Middle East; Turkey
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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.

1984 to promote a more peaceful, inclusive world. When she learned that USIP had begun working with a consortium of global NGOs to craft an Environmental Peacebuilding Framework, she began learning more... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

into a disruptee. Learning To Chicken-scratch If a technology is to succeed, in theory at least, it should not require people to radically change their behavior. Instead, companies that promote the technology should hope for a gradual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

which makes it slightly smaller than New York City. Yet with Yeo's hand on the rudder of its economy, it tacked from the manufacturing of labor-intensive finished goods like washing machines and televisions in the 1980s to the making of... View Details
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Turning High Potential into Real Reward

that strand of wool into the tapestry of a brand. You see that way of realizing the core product-customer link, and then going out and building an alliance with merino suppliers, so that he's got a steady supply of a rare product, and with View Details
Keywords: Re: Joseph B. Lassiter; Consumer Products
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

upset me.” Machine dream: “There were companies that displayed different rates and prices. But none of them ever considered why people would want all that information on one screen, with it placed in charts and graphs that allowed users... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2019
  • News

The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

SAAS solution for small businesses to introduce machine learning by text to their business finances’ (or something like that). The folks we met on Shark Tank made things like a container for your sandwich so... View Details
  • 04 May 2017
  • News

Going the Distance

governor’s office of economic development in Utah, last year wrapped up an 11-year path of voyage and endurance spanning 38 countries, climbing 14.5 vertical miles, and sailing 35,000 nautical miles. “Real learning and personal growth... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55668 2019 Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Multivariate Unsupervised Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The One That Got Away

the media vertical) more profitable. A May 2011 investment memo [cowritten with former colleagues Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) and David Cowan (MBA 1992)] had this to say: Peter and his team were “pioneering the use of machine View Details
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

produce and sell personal computers. They all learned the importance of being smart, effective stewards of themselves, their employees, and the opportunities and resources they controlled. They saw the importance of carrying out their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 06 Mar 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

laid the blame at the foot of "an engineer who had difficulty forecasting simple activities and (the) time to accomplish them." Joseph Mello commented that " part of the problem comes from the view of an organization as a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • May 2024
  • Case

Pernod Ricard: Uncorking Digital Transformation

By: Iavor Bojinov, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon, Nikolina Jonsson and Emer Moloney
This case study explores the opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation journey of French wine and spirits company Pernod Ricard. As part of the transformation, the company launched four key digital programs (KDPs) aimed at using data and artificial... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business Divisions; Talent and Talent Management; Global Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Advertising; Sales; Organizational Culture; Product Development; Decision Making; Technology Adoption; Alignment; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe
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  • 04 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM

living in San Francisco working at a data science startup as a product manager. I have always gravitated toward technology and science throughout my life, and machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science were fascinating as... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS

Administration and the founder and codirector of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University. "Our stakeholders expect HBS to be excellent when it comes to their digitally mediated interactions." In this conversation, Lakhani speaks about the lessons... View Details
Keywords: April White