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  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Anti-Social Media

Li Photo courtesy Altimeter Group A former executive at Forrester Research and consultant at Monitor, in 2008 Charlene Li (MBA 1993) founded the Altimeter Group, which designs pragmatic strategies to help companies leverage disruptive trends. She is also the author and... View Details
Keywords: Information; Information
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

One-on-One with Peter Cuneo

Illustration by Michael White In the universe of superheroes and rock ’em, sock ’em action, a comic book tracking the adventures of “Turnaround Man” has yet to appear. If and when that happens, the most likely inspiration for such a character would be Peter Cuneo (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; comic books; Information; Information; Information; Information
  • November 2015
  • Case

Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work

By: Feng Zhu, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti and Aaron Smith
Upwork, the world's largest freelance talent platform, was the result of a merger between the two leading online freelancing companies in 2014, Elance and oDesk. After the merger, the company operated as Elance-oDesk and continued to manage two online... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Employment; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Business Processes; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Job Search
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  • 18 Nov 2011
  • News

A Gift to Honor Professor Arthur Segel

Keywords: professorship; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 24 Sep 2012
  • News

Wells, Mathews elected to Harvard Corporation

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Legal Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

1991 to 1994, he served as the first senior associate dean, director of financial and information systems, at HBS. He has coauthored five books and written nearly two hundred cases and articles. The Managerial Implications of Deregulation... View Details
  • August 2023
  • Article

Explaining Machine Learning Models with Interactive Natural Language Conversations Using TalkToModel

By: Dylan Slack, Satyapriya Krishna, Himabindu Lakkaraju and Sameer Singh
Practitioners increasingly use machine learning (ML) models, yet models have become more complex and harder to understand. To understand complex models, researchers have proposed techniques to explain model predictions. However, practitioners struggle to use... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

What Triggers National Stock Market Jumps?

By: Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis and Marco Sammon
We examine newspapers the day after major stock-market jumps to evaluate the proximate cause, geographic source, and clarity of these events from 1900 in the US, 1930 in the UK and 1980 in 12 other countries. We find four main results. First, the United States plays an... View Details
Keywords: Uncertainty; Policy Uncertainty; Stock Market; Financial Markets; Volatility; Risk and Uncertainty; Policy; Newspapers
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  • 2021
  • Article

Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services

By: Samantha Bates, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Jonathan Zittrain and Yunhan Xu
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet’s global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its distributed resilience given the rise of cloud-based hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least... View Details
Keywords: Domain Name System; Resilience; Entropy; Internet and the Web; Infrastructure; Performance Effectiveness; Safety; Cybersecurity
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  • May 2020
  • Case

Numenta in 2020: The Future of AI

By: David B. Yoffie, Cameron Armstrong, Mei Tao and Marta Zwierz
In 2020, Numenta’s co-founder, Jeff Hawkins, completed his pathbreaking research on artificial intelligence. His co-founder and CEO, Donna Dubinsky, had to find a business model to monetize the technology. This case explores the challenges of building a business... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Monetization; Information Technology; Strategy; Intellectual Property; Business Model; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry
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  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

Managerial Control of Business Press Coverage

By: Eugene F. Soltes and David H. Solomon
The business press plays a significant role in distributing firm news to investors. We investigate the extent to which managers can influence their firm's level of coverage in newswires and newspapers. We consider three choices under managerial control: press release... View Details
Keywords: Announcements; Governance Controls; News; Communication Strategy; Journalism and News Industry
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  • August 2004 (Revised April 2005)
  • Case

MK Taxi: Private Chauffeur Service

MK Taxi Tokyo has developed a system to allow customers to use their mobile phones to find and contact the cab closest to them, bypassing the dispatch center. The system, called the Private Chauffeur Service (PCS), makes use of NTT's i-mode service, which essentially... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Transportation; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; Tokyo
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  • January 2001 (Revised February 2002)
  • Case

Rambus, Inc.: Commercializing the Billion Dollar Idea

Rambus, Inc. was founded to develop a new type of high-speed memory chip technology to enable DRAMs to keep up with ever-faster microprocessors. After developing the technology, Rambus chose an unusual licensing approach to commercialize it. This case focuses on the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Commercialization; Information Infrastructure; Cooperation; Technology Industry
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  • 03 Feb 2023
  • News

Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road

As part of the HBS Elective Curriculum, MBA students can enroll in an Immersive Field Course (IFC). These courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections and provide students with an opportunity to get out of the classroom and put the skills they’ve... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2014
  • News

Market Reaction

Keywords: FIELD program; FIELD 2; Retail Trade; Manufacturing; Health, Social Assistance; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Allston to Get Harvard Museum

A new Harvard art museum will join the University’s planned life-sciences complex on Western Avenue across from HBS — the first two structures in Harvard’s long-range expansion plan in Allston. University officials announced the selection of the 1.6-acre site at 224... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Aldrich Renovations Reach Halfway Point

Students taking classes in Aldrich Hall this year can literally place one foot in the past and one in the future where the old and newly renovated halves of the building meet on each of the three floors. To avoid disrupting classes, facilities planners arranged to... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 25 Aug 2010
  • News

Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

In the first part of “Classroom Hijinks” last week, I discussed catchphrases, cheers, and mascots as examples of section spirit engendered by the fortunate decision to have a first-year section’s courses all taught in the same classroom. Here I cover the classroom... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

HBS Alumni in Harvard Leadership Roles

With new and continuing appointments, HBS alumni are playing key roles in the governance structure of Harvard University. In September, Theodore Wells (MBA 1974/JD 1976) was elected to the Harvard Corporation by members of the Corporation and with the consent of the... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

of large corporate databases. A management information systems specialist, Professor James I. Cash, Jr., focuses on how companies use information technology to improve organizational effectiveness and how... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young