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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
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
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game theory under three learning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
model, the company would sell sequencers at a higher price to those entities that already purchased sequencers, primarily major research labs and pharmaceutical firms, but position its machine as a faster alternative to existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
What have you learned about Japan? It’s a land of clarity and ambiguity. Think of a Japanese painting with a beautifully detailed willow branch against a landscape of fog. Contradictions and paradoxes abound. While it’s a very... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
short course for first-year MBAs on leadership, values, and decision-making. I reasoned that I would learn more about the questions that had troubled me by teaching the course. I became increasingly interested in practical questions of... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
Professor of Business Administration, and colleagues Dr. Eva Guinan and Jin Paik more about the study and results. They are referred to as the LISH team below. Martha Lagace: How did you learn about the problem and connect with... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care By: Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger Abstract—In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar New Dean Srikant Datar talks about his background, immediate objectives, and recent accomplishments. What makes HBS so special? What makes him proud? What is he most looking forward to? Learn more about... View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
Companies should "always try new things," he emphasizes. "But we have learned to focus on and apply this innovation to our current customers." Updated advice: Make sure that a sizable percentage of your current... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 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
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
companies can more nimbly pursue innovation. “In this case, the bigger players were able to integrate this radical technology into their existing machines without being disruptive,” says Galasso. “It didn’t require a substantial redesign... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
organizations in private industry could learn from the example of Data.gov to the extent of unlocking data from individual silos in their firm even though data remain protected within firewalls. HBS assistant professor Karim R. Lakhani,... View Details
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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Marketing track. Introduction to Creating Brand Value LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra learning at no extra cost. Enroll now and unlock a GenAI Bonus Bundle featuring complimentary lessons on AI fundamentals. Download... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
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
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
Courtesy Meaghan Fitzgerald How did you become interested in virtual reality (VR)? “I have always been a fan of sci-fi and future tech. VR seemed to hold this promise of being something between a teleportation machine and a future... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
process. Can algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence help Tailor Brands outperform graphic designers and branding agencies in developing brand identities? And, can Tailor Brands differentiate itself from the many other... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that help interpret this correlation. One implication of this finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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