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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report

of job displacement and the fairness of the systems themselves. As IBM’s work shows, machine learning models can inherit and amplify human bias if the training data lacks representation or context. This can... View Details

03 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen

everything from temperature to light intensity and humidity. Machines assist a small production team that cuts and bundles roses for sale. Image source: the authors Once cut, the flowers are handled differently depending on the tastes of... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

encapsulates what I have learned about American business history during three decades of research and teaching the subject." Highlights from the conversation follow. How did you choose the seven men profiled in your book? First of all, I... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

founder. LTV is complementary to Scaling Tech Ventures (STV), which focuses more on post product-market fit startups, and Founder Mindset, which focuses more on human issues and a founder’s psychology. LTV helps students learn the... View Details

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3), the School is researching how technological advances such as machine learning and artificial intelligence will be crucial for business success in the... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

Memoir, by Anna Wiener The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, by Robert Iger —Kurt Daniel (MBA 2000) Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering, by Makoto Fujimura A reflection on... View Details

February 2025
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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

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01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach

while the startup won’t have the same advantage over its competitors once it moves beyond cyber-insurance, Iram and Itskovich believe the company’s nimble, data-driven approach will continue to give it an edge. “We can still automate the hell out of those products, use... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

06 Dec 2017
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The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference

(VC) funds. The unifying theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future We’re Building’. At the baseline, we wanted to discuss emerging technologies and trends such as blockchain, augmented reality/virtual reality, cryptocurrency, autonomous vehicles, and artificial... View Details

Keywords: Technology

08 Sep 2011
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What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

Schultz. Wall Street demanded increasing growth, internationalization, better productivity, and new products. And Schultz's successors responded by opening up to five new stores per day; extending business to many new foreign markets; introducing a faster, higher... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

05 Nov 2024
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Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

assistant who knew all about the business, including the goals and preferences of the owner. What if this bot could respond to requests in plain English to perform daily tasks and improve sales and marketing. Marshaling the predictive power of artificial intelligence... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

16 Jun 2023
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The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)

balance the technical and business aspects to help educate our listeners about opportunities in this emerging field of climate tech. Our first series in 2023 addressed how businesses are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine... View Details

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

technologies developed by the Sony Corporation. In this same astonishingly brief period, Japan's computer makers had become Europe's dominant suppliers of large computer systems and had captured the U.S. market in memory chips. International Business View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

24 May 2023
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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

April 2024 (Revised November 2024)
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Moderna: Pioneering a People Platform to Accelerate Science Innovation

By: Tatiana Sandino, Emil Dy and Samuel Grad

Moderna was founded in 2010 to explore how messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) could be used to create breakthrough medicines by encoding instructions for the body to create antibodies. When Stéphane Bancel (HBS 2000) took over in 2011, he bet on the potential of this... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Selection and Staffing; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Strategy; Innovation and Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Alignment; Employee Relationship Management; Science-Based Business; Expansion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States

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22 Sep 2021
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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

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

04 May 2017
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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 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
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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

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