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- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
atoms. But what we can do is simple experiments and simulations to predict important properties of molecules, like how much it might cost to synthesize. The other part is using machine learning to connect... View Details
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR
By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Plan; Disruption; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Nationality; Race; Residency; Higher Education; Learning; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Job Search; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Corporate Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Valuation; Value Creation; Employment Industry; United Kingdom
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
still hold true. But a great deal of research over the past 20 years or so have put a lot of meat on those bones. As one example, we’ve come to learn more about creating the high-trust environment that leads to engaged employees who... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
of life work, behave, and relate to each other. To thrive in a world driven by data and powered by algorithms, we must learn to see, think, and act in new ways. We need to develop a digital mindset. But what does that mean? Some fear it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
and the computer with one of the partner's secretaries," she recalls. She spent two-and-a-half years there, learning business at a high level. "It was like drinking from a fire hose." But something was missing. Sender felt like she still... 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
led the way in developing computers, atom smashers, medical devices, and new machines that desalinated brackish water. Doriot even backed George H.W. Bush’s first company, Zapata Off-Shore Company. “He was very important because he was... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Knowledge-Enabled Financial Advice: Digital Transformation at Edward Jones
By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
Edward Jones, a wealth management advisory firm that prided itself on its interpersonal connections and face-to-face interactions, was eager to augment their services with AI capabilities. Built on 1-to-1 close-knit relationships, the firm had more than 15,000 offices... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Innovation And Strategy; Financial Advisors; Big Data; Artificial Intelligence; Digitization; Financial Institutions; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Technology Adoption; Business Plan; Technological Innovation; Interpersonal Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Communication Strategy; Transformation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Customer Relationship Management; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Strategy; Financial Services Industry; St. Louis; Missouri; United States; Canada
Cohen, Lauren, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger, and Sophia Pan. "Knowledge-Enabled Financial Advice: Digital Transformation at Edward Jones." Harvard Business School Case 225-009, July 2024.
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
powerful machine learning technique known as Thompson sampling to address the challenge of balancing the exploration-exploitation tradeoff under the presence of inventory constraints. Our algorithms prove to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
of the research problem, at this point. I’m the subject and I’m the researcher. I’m like a perpetual-motion machine of happiness research.” In this conversation with the Bulletin, Professor Brooks talks about why happiness has become such... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
disappointments? To learn more about some of the ramifications, pitfalls, and managerial issues associated with the M&A; process, the Bulletin asked a number of HBS faculty members to comment on the M&A; phenomenon from their several... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
themes? Eric: The first theme is mechanization. If you were a young person in the early Republic in America and you could build a machine that did what had been traditionally done by hand, you were in the sweet spot of entrepreneurship.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
had learned as a corporation how to do things that all corporations must do if they are to succeed. Two of these deserve special note. First, Intel had learned how to grow. Second, it had View Details
- June 2024
- Case
Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform
By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney
In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; Business Startups; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Private Sector; Entrepreneurial Finance; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Medical Specialties; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Technology Adoption; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Laws and Statutes; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Distribution; Product Development; Success; Performance Efficiency; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Health Industry; Israel
Stern, Ariel D., and Susan Pinckney. "Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform." Harvard Business School Case 624-046, June 2024.
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
We implement a variety of machine learning methods to forecast daily sales. We find that using social media information results in statistically significant improvements in the out-of-sample accuracy of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
(D^3) and the Institute for Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). The purpose of D^3 is to study how technological changes such as machine learning, digitalization, and artificial intelligence are affecting business and society. The... View Details