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  • May 2017
  • Article

The Reference Wars: Encyclopædia Britannica's Decline and Encarta's Emergence

By: Shane Greenstein
The experience of Encyclopædia Britannica provides the canonical example of the decline of an established firm at the outset of the digital age. Competition from Microsoft’s Encarta in 1993 led to sharp declines in the sales of books, which led to the distressed sale... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Britannica; Diseconomies; Encyclopedias; Applications and Software; Books; Competition; Publishing Industry
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  • 2014
  • Case

Yonyou 2013

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
The case describes how a leading Chinese management software provider Yonyou (formerly known as "UFIDA") disrupted its value chain-based business model to transform itself into a platform provider. The case describes Yonyou's past success, the market forces and... View Details
Keywords: Business Models; ERP; Platforms; Strategy; Transformations; China; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; China
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  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

2 + 2 = All Smiles

In June, recent college graduates accepted into the HBS 2+2 Program enjoyed a preview of what to expect when they return to Soldiers Field as MBA students in the fall of 2011. The 2+2 Program targets high-achieving college juniors studying in a wide variety of fields.... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2023
  • Article

Benchmarking Large Language Models on CMExam—A Comprehensive Chinese Medical Exam Dataset

By: Junling Liu, Peilin Zhou, Yining Hua, Dading Chong, Zhongyu Tian, Andrew Liu, Helin Wang, Chenyu You, Zhenhua Guo, Lei Zhu and Michael Lingzhi Li
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have transformed the field of question answering (QA). However, evaluating LLMs in the medical field is challenging due to the lack of standardized and comprehensive datasets. To address this gap, we introduce CMExam,... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Health Industry
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  • February 2021
  • Tutorial

Getting Started in RStudio Cloud

By: Chiara Farronato and Caleb Kwon
This video provides an introduction to the free programming language R using an online cloud version of RStudio, which is the most popular editor and interface for writing and executing R code. The video begins by providing a brief background of R and RStudio and... View Details
Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Analytics; Experiment; Experimental Design; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Applications and Software
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  • October 2019 (Revised March 2021)
  • Background Note

Modern Automation (B): Robotics

By: William R. Kerr and James Palano
Driven largely by advances in perception and situational awareness, robots in the 2010s were gaining functionality that allowed them to be applied to fundamentally new types of work. The expanding range of new tasks that could be completed by machines had significant... View Details
Keywords: Robotics; Artificial Intelligence; Future Of Work; Technology Commercialization; Information Technology; Commercialization; Employment; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 2014
  • Case

Zenglibao: An Internet Money Market Fund Run by Tianhong Asset Management Co., LTD.

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Yongjun Jin and Xiaohui Li
Mobile Internet has imposed an increasing impact on traditional finance. Firstly, some financial business modules can be operated via mobile Internet, and the corresponding transaction cost is greatly reduced. For example, payment by traditional bank draft is replaced... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Internet; China; Mobile Devices; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; China
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  • 1995
  • Article

Technology Development and Integration: An Empirical Study of the Interaction between Applied Science and Product Development

By: Marco Iansiti
Keywords: Information Technology; Research and Development; Integration; Information; Science; Product
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  • September 1974 (Revised April 1975)
  • Case

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. (A)

At the conclusion of a small-scale pilot survey, management must decide whether to invest in a larger survey or terminate the project. The objective of the study is to use psychographic measurement techniques to study the alternative positions of cranberry sauce.... View Details
Keywords: Surveys; Product Positioning; Mathematical Methods; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Curtain Call

Love, tragedy, honor, and betrayal — just business as usual at HBS, at least when the curtain rises on the annual HBS Show. This year’s April production, Somewhere over the Footbridge, featured four HBS students who have somehow gone missing at the Hong Kong restaurant... View Details
Keywords: HBS Show
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 25 Aug 2021
  • News

Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) first began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools system, she saw that elementary schools seemed to be getting better in the Chicago area. But once students reached middle and high... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Students craft their post-HBS lives

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. As part of a first-year required course, MBA students are asked to imagine that it’s their 10th reunion and write an alumni profile—detailing their first decade after graduation. “Students... View Details
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • News

And Now, a Word from Our Graduates

Keywords: alumni; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Student Benefits from Class of 2006 Fellowship

GOLDBERG: Bringing a passion for education to the MBA classroom. For the third year in a row, the MBA graduating class has established a fellowship that will benefit future HBS students. The Class of 2006 broke fundraising and participation records by raising almost... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

HBS Students Mentor Kids

GOOD BUDDIES: (from left) Todd, Richie, Rory, and William. During his time at HBS, William Pritchett (MBA ’06) learned an enormous amount from his professors and classmates. But he also learned a lot from 13-year-old Rory, a student at the Manville School of the Judge... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future

I knew there had to be a hitch when HBS invited its alumni volunteers — fund agents, reunion organizers, and my fellow Class Notes correspondents — back to campus in early November for two days of free food and learning. Sure enough, when I opened my registration... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton; alumni; volunteers; conferences; cases; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations

528150a8b80a2637fd6896e3fe5228e5 Christine Fairchild, who has played a key role in HBS alumni relations for the past fifteen years, has been appointed executive director of External Relations, with overall responsibility for alumni outreach, communications, and... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Class Day & Commencement

Class Day Student Speaker Brendan McGeever (MBA ’03). More Class Day and Commencement photos. Photography by Stuart Cahill and Thomas J. Fitzsimmons Conditions were cloudy and cool but the mood was festive on June 4 as members of the Class of 2003, their families, and... View Details
Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

HBS Seeks Deeper Ties with China

CHINA INITIATIVE: HBS professor emeritus Warren McFarlan speaks with Jessie Chen (MBA ’99) and Rodney Smith (MBA ’99) before his presentation at the Harvard Center Shanghai. HBS professor emeritus Warren McFarlan, a longtime advocate of closer academic ties with China,... View Details