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- 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
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Cost-Accounting/9780132109178.page Mixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Rhythm & Blues
By: Willy Shih
The bankruptcy filing of Rhythm & Hues, who received an Oscar for the arresting visual effects in Life of Pi, raised questions about the challenges faced by the firms like it as well as the broader post-production industry. The rapid pace of technology certainly... View Details
Keywords: Post-production; Visual Effects; Digital; Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Los Angeles
- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
portfolio management which created a great preamble before Harlem Capital.” While working at ICV, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques were also part of the Management Leadership for Tomorrow career program, an organization founded by John Rice (MBA... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
company’s financials. Ballard also knew that Black men were nearly three times more likely to be denied a loan than white men, and that the figures weren’t much better for women, Latinos, or immigrants. So he challenged a group of data scientists and View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Business School Case 215-026 Longbow Capital Partners Longbow Capital Partners is a value-oriented long/short hedge fund focused on stocks in the energy sector. In January 2011, Longbow had invested in NiSource, a Fortune 500 company that owns a diverse View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30
onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and enforcement of government regulation. In this paper, we argue that the considerable moral hazard associated with private regulatory monitoring can be mitigated by understanding conflicts of interest in the monitoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
particular industry—both software engineers and fashion models are considered "specialized"—but 60 percent of the visas go to workers who specialize in science, engineering, and high-tech occupations. Top recipients of H-1B visas include... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
1926–2014 and international sector returns 1985–2014, we present four findings: (1) Fama is correct in that a sharp price increase of an industry portfolio does not, on average, predict unusually low returns going forward; (2) such sharp... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
markets. Portfolio inflows that capture those financial market investments are much higher in South Africa than they are for other regions of the world. Q: Your case describes the complexities of good FDI and "bad" (or at least... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
decision of a portfolio manager, Andrew Fisher of LXE Capital, who is considering investing based on insights drawn from Recorded Future's software interface. The case asks students to grapple with a new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
on? Are they concentrated in a specific industry or business type? A: Inventors can file for patents in many technology fields, ranging from chemicals and drugs to computer software to agricultural machinery. Immigrant contributions are... View Details
- 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5
methodology using a novel dataset developed with the division of a large pharmaceutical firm. The dataset consists of all components in the enterprise architecture, the observed dependencies between them, and estimated costs of change for View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
you to raise money, and that would be a big deal." In modern terms, you can observe the same phenomenon in the basement programmer who designs open-source software as a calling card or the blogger who wants to establish herself as an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- June 2016 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Numenta: Inventing and (or) Commercializing AI
By: David B. Yoffie, Liz Kind and David Ben Shimol
In March 2016, Donna Dubinsky (co-founder and CEO) and Jeff Hawkins (co-founder) were struggling with a key question: Could Numenta be successful in both creating fundamental technology and building a commercial business? Located in Redwood City, CA, Numenta was... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Intelligence; Machine Learning; Strategy; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Information; Technological Innovation; Research; Research and Development; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Commercialization; AI and Machine Learning
Yoffie, David B., Liz Kind, and David Ben Shimol. "Numenta: Inventing and (or) Commercializing AI." Harvard Business School Case 716-469, June 2016. (Revised August 2019.)
- 01 Mar 2011
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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
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2270579 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 314-114 The Park Hotels: Revitalizing an Iconic Indian Brand Priya Paul, chairperson of The Park Hotels, an award-winning View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne