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  • 01 Apr 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

huge deficits stretching back and forward for a decade,” according to Kautz. “I believe that an emerging disinflationary era, driven by more intelligent machines and continuing globalization, is why they are right. Most importantly for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

extra boost in development. A new tool by Harvard and MIT researchers promises to do just that, with the help of machine learning and the biggest library of urban images on the Internet: Google Street View.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

disclosure. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50424 forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2018
  • News

Source Code

surroundings, and learning as we go. That’s biological intelligence. But artificial intelligence—at least the way that it’s currently constructed—doesn’t work this way. Let’s use Google as an example. HEAR MORE Listen to Donna Dubinsky... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

"We were selling seven to eight million cubic feet per day and I was responsible for it. I thought we should take a better interest in it," says Thomas. The problem was that although he was in charge of the machines that... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The One That Got Away

the media vertical) more profitable. A May 2011 investment memo [cowritten with former colleagues Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) and David Cowan (MBA 1992)] had this to say: Peter and his team were “pioneering the use of machine View Details
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

everything else—but everything else is really under a lot of pressure. With dollar stores you have this shopping trip interrupter that dissuades you from going to Walmart—they have paper, milk, frozen food, bread. The Walmart machine was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

"feeling tone" he engendered around himself. He truly—passionately—believed you could learn from anybody. Because ordinary people knew that, they taught him all they could. Humility was a trait which no one ever accused Charles... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
  • 19 Jan 2023
  • News

Forged in Fire

conclusion that's different than mine? They have some level of experience, some level of wisdom that I haven't learned yet, and there's something that I can take from this person. So how do I bring that out of this person so that I can... View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

Raymond Burke of Indiana University took on the broader question of how to evaluate new retail technologies, uncovering insights in past technological successes and failures. Here, in an excerpt, Burke offers ten lessons retailers should View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

Paris,” among other awards, for its innovation and performance. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-046 Spotify In November 2014, Spotify's chief content officer Ken Parks View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2025
  • Case

AI Meets VC: The Data-Driven Revolution at Quantum Light Capital

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
Ilya Kondrashov, CEO of Quantum Light Capital, was driven to harness AI for identifying high-potential scale-ups. Collaborating with Nik Storonsky, founder of Revolut, the duo observed that most venture capital (VC) decisions were heavily influenced by emotion, with... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Business Finance; Data Analysis; Angel Investors; Cognitive Biases; Scale; Venture Capital; Investment; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Public Opinion; Private Sector; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Business Earnings; Behavioral Finance; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; London; United Kingdom
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  • 01 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

Artificial Intelligence and the Machine Learning Revolution in Finance: Cogent Labs and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

data are often voluminous and unstructured, presenting analytical challenges for traditional tools that were designed for well-structured, quantitative data. We adapt methods from natural language processing and machine View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 15, 2015

account for the majority of sales and revenue. To tackle this challenge, we use machine learning techniques to estimate historical lost sales and predict future demand of new products. The nonparametric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

Buildings By: Herron, J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Robert G. Eccles, Jr. Abstract—Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 08 Jun 2018
  • News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

last minute was the junior cost accounting trainee at an automotives machining plant, wherein I learned the wisdom of going on for further education, the discipline of making sure all the numbers actually... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

A Summit Higher Than Everest

called them. In fact, he was just now planning an expedition to a blank area of southeast Alaska. But a summit higher than Everest? Carpé flipped through the book to learn more about the mountain better known as Minya Konka, but the... View Details
Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

self-refining algorithms (aka machine learning) and wearable sensors and computers, and offer a compass for making the right choice for CEOs and CLOs who are guiding executive program design. Ultimately, this book serves as a guide to... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2017
  • News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things.... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page