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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
building was of paramount importance to the planners. All architectural details, the open and private meeting spaces, and even the tools to facilitate learning (such as multimedia technology and movable furniture) were designed to create... View Details
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How to Make Remote Monitoring Tech Part of Everyday Health Care
By: Samantha F. Sanders, Ariel Dora Stern and William J. Gordon
Remote patient monitoring is a subset of telehealth that involves the collection, transmission, evaluation, and communication of patient health data from electronic devices. These devices include wearable sensors, implanted equipment, and handheld instruments. During... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Technology Adoption
Sanders, Samantha F., Ariel Dora Stern, and William J. Gordon. "How to Make Remote Monitoring Tech Part of Everyday Health Care." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 2, 2020).
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
the holidays. He also recalled how the idea for thredUP came to him at HBS. “The original concept for how to deal with two-sided marketplaces, which is what thredUP is, came from HBS associate professor Andrei Hagiu’s Strategy & View Details
- July 2001 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
Centra Software
By: John A. Deighton and Laetitia Pouliquen
Centra is a pioneer in software eLearning. It is debating how to modify its go-to-market strategy, adding telesales to improve sales force productivity. At the same time, its market is evolving, and management thinks it may be about to "cross the chasm" in Geoffrey... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Learning; Emerging Markets; Growth Management; Salesforce Management; Conflict Management; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Deighton, John A., and Laetitia Pouliquen. "Centra Software." Harvard Business School Case 502-009, July 2001. (Revised October 2002.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Bairong and the Promise of Big Data
By: Lauren Cohen, Xiaoyan Zhang and Spencer C.N. Hagist
Bairong CEO Felix Zhang, in launching his credit scoring start-up that incorporates 74,000 variables per individual, found strong initial success. However, the shifting regulatory environment, growing breadth of competitors, difficulties in retaining top talent, and... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Big Data; Artificial Intelligence; Credit Scoring; Finance; Credit; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; China
Cohen, Lauren, Xiaoyan Zhang, and Spencer C.N. Hagist. "Bairong and the Promise of Big Data." Harvard Business School Case 221-068, February 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- October 14, 2019
- Article
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Health Care Delivery
By: Samantha F. Sanders, Mats Terwiesch, William J. Gordon and Ariel Dora Stern
The development of intelligent machines holds great promise for making health care delivery more accurate, efficient, and accessible, but challenges remain for incorporating AI into clinical and administrative settings. View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning
Sanders, Samantha F., Mats Terwiesch, William J. Gordon, and Ariel Dora Stern. "How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Health Care Delivery." NEJM Catalyst (October 17, 2019).
- March 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
Cadre
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers and David Lane
Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for investors in commercial real estate (CRE) equity. Cadre was a... View Details
- November 1999 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
VerticalNet (www.verticalnet.com)
By: Das Narayandas
VerticalNet, a leading creator of targeted business-to-business vertical trade communities on the Internet, is trying to expand its model to facilitate e-commerce. Mark Walsh, the CEO of VerticalNet, has to decide how far he can extend the firm's business model without... View Details
Narayandas, Das. "VerticalNet (www.verticalnet.com)." Harvard Business School Case 500-041, November 1999. (Revised June 2000.)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
(Above: photo by Christina Gandolfo) When Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) thinks about marketing her music, she thinks about it in consumer product terms. A feminist activist and former drummer for Grammy-nominated artist M.I.A., she wants her new electronic solo project,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100 companies and several of New England’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO of Little Rock, Arkansas-based... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
Due to racial discrimination, white vacationers have an easier time booking an Airbnb rental property than African-Americans do, according to a new study from faculty at Harvard Business School. The problem seems to lie in all the personal information—names and profile... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
in moving out of lower-value into higher-value paths as technologies and markets changed. Before World War II those managers became proficient in monitoring the processes of production and marketing in each of the different paths. After... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a principal at Troy, a venture capital firm investing in what we believe are the most transformational View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”
Sarah refine her search. “I looked at industries hyper-dependent on people, and concentrated on technology and financial services.” Like her HBS colleagues, Sarah launched a campaign to “reach out and connect to people,” perusing the... View Details
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Whitney Wilson
Camp is a pitch before a panel of VC and equity investors. “Two of the three investors were women who said they’d like to be our customers!” “I’m still figuring out what I’d like to do after school,” Whitney says. “I would love to start a business or join an... View Details
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Rocio Parra
With a father who has a PhD in electrical engineering, and two older siblings who also pursued engineering degrees, it seemed only natural that Rocio Parra would continue the family's engineering tradition. "I always assumed that I would go into business on the... View Details
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Matthew Mariner
to put those skills to work." Next year, Matthew intends to enter the business-plan competition, "with something that combines technology with finance and accounting-related functions; an online service for certain consumers and... View Details
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Allen Yang
connected to the Internet through their phones. It spoke to the power of technology. The trip was a very sobering experience, but it left me feeling very optimistic about what was possible. It captures what’s great about business: the potential to apply View Details
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Arjun Goyal
pitched Foresight to HBS Business Angels, an alumni investment group, and have high hopes for the annual New Venture Competition. “On a commercial level,” Arjun explains, “Foresight is innovative in the way it applies new technology to... View Details