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- 02 Feb 2022
- News
AI Could Cut Hiring Biases as Companies Make Push to Find Workers, Proponents Say
Photo via Pymetrics Photo via Pymetrics A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal highlights the efforts of Frida Polli (MBA 2012), a neuroscientist and CEO of Pymetrics, an AI-powered recruiting and job matching platform, to employ View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
division. When Ralph Clark (MBA 1993) took over as CEO of ShotSpotter in 2010, he inherited a groundbreaking technology and a broken business model. The company uses sensors, strategically placed throughout an urban area, to instantly locate a gunshot and alert... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
population thinks that democracy is broken, the system is rigged, their votes don’t count, and the only people who have sway are those with money and power. The idea that “nobody is paying attention to me... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
Photography by Robert Schoen Lori Schock, copresident of the HBS Student Association, defines her leadership role as being an activist for students' priorities. “When I go to meetings, I'm constantly thinking of the hundreds of other... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
while at the same time, a range of stakeholders can question, claim their share, or put up guardrails around that headlong rush toward change. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems — particularly by business itself... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Student turns family health crisis into online solution
When Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014) and her family tried to navigate the world of health care in the US to help Hoffman’s father with his medical issues, the electrical systems engineer looked at the problem from a distinct perspective. “No... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Bringing Teachers to All of America
education system that work quite well. The real injustice and the real opportunity for improvement is in low-income districts and in high-poverty schools. That is where we're missing the mark and where we need to make the biggest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
other words, if a retailer only gives the manufacturer warehouse stock information rather than actual sales data, or if the data is sent by fax instead of electronic transfer (which can be more efficiently verified), VMI may not pay off. To the degree the View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
true. But this has really made me think more about the role that institutions and public policy play and about how vulnerable the system is unless we really do have checks and balances. In addition to formal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
Blended learning looks like the vehicle to do a lot of this, but we're thinking of it more as a student-centric system that allows for mastery-based learning. Undergirding that approach with technology is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
risky, you’re creating moral hazard implicit federal guarantees by that very process. Third, you’re assuming that we can know in advance every institution that’s systemically risky, but I don’t think that’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
will look not at the trees, but at the whole forest.” He also called for new government power to impose an orderly liquidation of any failing financial institution. Lacking that authority, Paulson said he had to use “duct tape and baling wire to keep the View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
delivery systems take advantage of new approaches for interacting with patients. Historically, telemedicine has been seen by many health care systems as a source of competition; my hope is that more View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Sid Yog, MBA 2004
measure, if I look at my life over the last nine years, I see that the relationship to HBS is always present, directly or indirectly. I founded my company with a professor from HBS; half of my investors have a relationship with HBS. This support View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
ingenuity built this country. New ideas involve a kind of thinking where you’re able to challenge orthodoxy and look at the world in a different light, from a different angle, and sometimes combine existing elements in a different way. I... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
shortage—which the National Education Association estimates to total some 300,000 vacancies. In this excerpt, Dwinal-Palisch discusses the problem set that the American education system is facing—and how she and Reach are tackling those... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
structures and systems as well as reconciling the varying speeds at which divisions within a company may develop. Merson explores these different aspects of growth and outlines strategies and tactics to enable businesses to move forward... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
referring physicians. We think that health plans are also the logical place in the system at which to aggregate medical records. Right now, the medical record resides with each provider, and providers must... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these View Details