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- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
doctors at an inquiry level while helping healthcare providers and admission units achieve greater levels of efficiency. Hospitals that purchase this plug and play software can use it to handle inquiries from prospective patients and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
Massachusetts. CORe is expected to broaden its application pool to other national and international students in subsequent waves. But how to recreate that adrenaline-fueled, edge-of-the-seat energy that is a hallmark of HBS classrooms... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
with a rapid increase in capital commitments have led to less restrictive partnership agreements, large investments in portfolio firms, and higher valuations for those investments. These patterns have led many practitioners to conclude... View Details
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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are As if foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to HBS because of its Social... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Oakville, Ontario Energy management applications Paul Grana (MBA 2009) Tigo Energy Los Gatos, California; Munich, Germany; and Osaka, Japan Hardware and software that brings new levels of power output... View Details
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717430-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-033 A Note on Healthcare IT and Applications to the Healthcare Industry This note provides an overview of three key healthcare IT areas: electronic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
a long list of adjectives and verbs as masculine or feminine then scanned a popular job site to look for those words. They found that job ads in male-dominated fields (like software programming) tended to use masculine-coded words such as... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 2013
- Working Paper
Separating Homophily and Peer Influence with Latent Space
By: Joseph P. Davin, Sunil Gupta and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
We study the impact of peer behavior on the adoption of mobile apps in a social network. To identify social influence properly, we introduce latent space as an approach to control for latent homophily, the idea that "birds of a feather flock together." In a series of... View Details
Keywords: Social Influence; Social Network; Mobile App; Peer Effects; Latent Homophily; Latent Space; Proxy Variables; Familiarity; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Applications and Software; Social and Collaborative Networks; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Power and Influence; Social Media
Davin, Joseph P., Sunil Gupta, and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski. "Separating Homophily and Peer Influence with Latent Space." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-053, January 2014.
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
A.S.—(Norway)—The Cenapio Project Harvard Business School Case 806-090 Describes the creation of an open source software venture in Norway, Australia, and the United States that lands a strategic OEM deal with a leading Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation Course Number 6756 Senior Lecturer Satish Tadikonda Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 12 Sessions Paper Click here for application due August 16. Career Focus Creating, launching and... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
percent. For much of the past decade, H-1B visas have run out within a single week (see Figure 4). Despite even the COVID-19 pandemic, the government received 275,000 applications in March of this year for the 85,000 slots in fiscal year... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
the number of the investment choices in the 401(k) plan and the quality of optimal portfolio achievable given those investment choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-086.pdf When Power Makes Others Speechless: The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2021
- Teaching Note
IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center
By: Shane Greenstein and Mel Martin
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-022. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Failure; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Care and Treatment; Product Development; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Houston; Texas
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
visibility, to a network of peers. Many of them felt isolated.” Amadio sensed these challenges were not unique to neuroscience startups, and he began looking at the consumer software sector to see how innovation there seemed to happen so... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
Business Review, Merton, a Nobel laureate, urges senior corporate executives and boards to view derivative applications not just as tactical measures but as strategic tools that convey competitive advantage. A first step is distinguishing... View Details
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Judith Prior Lawrie Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
worked for consulting firms that specialized in transportation issues and the emerging field of software development. Concentrating her strengths and areas of interest, she later worked as an analyst and View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Capital Tech Opportunities who invests in B2B software companies in the late-stage growth phase. Hopkins cites an example that was brought to life in a case discussion attended by the protagonist, a founder of a company who had placed his... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
itself, can obscure meaningful variation in individual use patterns, we investigate how the concentration of use within a team (the extent to which use is limited to a few members versus more evenly distributed within the team) affects performance. Using archival data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Comparative Treatment of Business Method and Software Patents in the United States and European Union Harvard Business School Note 309-023 This note analyses and compares the legal definitions and practical View Details