Intelligent Assistants - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

Zhu, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School, who details the rise and fall of the information giant in a new working paper. "There has been lots of research on the accuracy of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

curtailing the use of such agreements. Andy Wu, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, is an entrepreneur and startup advisor who now researches how technology firms organize and mobilize resources to grow... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

14, just two years after losing his older brother to leukemia. That passion for flying carried through to three years of service as an intelligence officer with the US Air Force, where he fought to become a pilot, but found a completely... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

innovations in high performance computing and Artificial Intelligence to make AMD a tech powerhouse by late 2023. Lisa Su and AMD (A) and Lisa Su and AMD (B) are not standalone case studies. They are designed to be taught together. Lisa... View Details

26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

carry with me what I learned at HBS every day.” She also met Philip Erdoes, a classmate, while working out at Shad. She pursued him, and it worked out: the pair married four years later. Her eyes light up when she describes their life together: “He brings the View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

start of an unexpected educational journey. With a background in artificial intelligence and finance, Sasago thought launching a software or fintech startup might be in his future. But shortly after arriving on campus in 2018, he... View Details

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

increase their occupancy rates significantly, bringing their earnings more in line with the higher rental incomes of white hosts, according to a study coauthored by Shunyuan Zhang, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

can all be defused. Confusion Some idea-killing questions and concerns muddle the conversation with irrelevant facts, convoluted logic, or so many alternatives that it is impossible to have the clear and intelligent dialog that builds... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

08 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles

field studies, researchers tend to think that workers submit resumes to open positions. In fact, scholars have learned a lot about discrimination in labor markets by sending resumes to job postings to see who gets called back and who doesn’t. As Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

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Harvard Business School

assistant buyer and rose to overseeing buying in Europe and Asia. He was one of the first Black executives at Macy's. Wilkinson later moved to the New York City Transit Authority, becoming executive officer for surface transit with... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

offered at the payment screen during the enrollment process. Regardless of who submits payment, HBS Online must receive full payment for your course prior to the enrollment deadline. Participants may reach out to HBS Online Support for View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

important point: Once a scholar has conducted research that’s germane to practitioners, it’s important to let practitioners know that the research exists. “Ultimately, I conduct research to try to help people,” says HBS Assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

22 Nov 2024
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Deep Reading

type of artificial intelligence program trained on gigantic amounts of data that can perform natural language processing tasks such as summarizing content and answering questions. A pilot program was launched in November 2023, fed by 15... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

05 Mar 2025
News

Uncertain Terms

After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations,... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Aug 2022
News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

particular issue or set of questions to be explored through experimentation, observation, and analysis. The principal investigators are assisted by doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, data scientists, visiting... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

digitalization and data science and artificial intelligence are deployed as management and business tools,” Lakhani explains. And that means HBS needs to think differently, too. Enter the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard... View Details