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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
earlier. But soon that story will be out of date or rather, won’t capture everything. One day, Watson will do more than just suggest likely illnesses, says David Kenny. It’ll get more granular and actually prompt doctors: Did you look for... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
starting a computer dating service (almost before there were computers), selling and installing waterbeds, launching discotheques in drive-in movies, trying to invent a new kind of lasagna pan, producing a just-miss Hollywood movie, or... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
at DIS, he focused on the most important issues: the division's overall strategy and the barriers to innovation. Through honest conversations, he quickly learned about the real cause of DIS's inability to get its new products to market. The division had a hierarchical... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
and make it modular enough so that it can go viral?” he said. “How do we help create a country where every entrepreneur in every community has the resources they need to draw from?” By stamping an end date on the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
scenario that seemed unlikely just a few decades ago — affect what we teach and how we carry out our research. We must test our ideas against a broader range of experience and bring work informed by this understanding back into our classrooms. Our research centers... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
106 eyeglass stores that to date has delivered word-class eyeglasses to 1.5 million people at the base of the pyramid at an entry price of under $15, when previously this was only available at $125 or more. It was profitable and readying... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
lack of data about the actual returns of a specific set of companies in this early-stage category has resulted in an ongoing philosophical debate that to date has been based largely on anecdotal investor experience. As far as we could... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level. Drawing on attribution theory in psychology, we investigate how individuals learn from their own past... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
epic quest of trying to create that infrastructure and that new kind of commodities marketplace. And that's what we've been doing at FreeMarkets ever since. The anniversary date of the day I left GE was the end of February, five years... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
turnaround distressed companies. But as CD&R entered into its fifth decade and its largest fund to date (nearly $10 billion AUM), competition, AUMs, industry "dry powder," and buyout valuations were all on the rise. Within... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
question-asking on liking. In addition to analyzing live get-to-know-you conversations online, we also studied face-to-face speed-dating conversations. We find that speed daters who ask more questions during their dates are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
academic approaches to date has provided an entirely coherent picture of the process, in part because of the contradictory models of the process that they generate. The article goes on to consider the planning processes that are involved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
long-standing tradition of being one of the state’s few Democratic pockets outside Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, with a history of labor unrest and unionization dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries. That energy carried workers... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative, to discuss the making of the book and to bring us up to date on the current situations in Argentina and Chile. The book demonstrates both the opportunities,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
not just a moment to praise or reprimand; and establish a culture where people are treated with respect. Amabile says that the study of creativity at business schools is a relatively new phenomenon, dating back to the 1980s or so.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American enterprise, Koehn includes more than 100 Times news articles, dating from 1869 to 2003, while developing and analyzing three major themes: The Corporation, The Changing Nature of Work, and Defining Moments in Technology. Excerpts... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
his leave of absence from the School. As the date of departure had approached, however, he and Hincks reconciled. They were now engaged to be married, and Moore had begun to worry about a future beyond mountaineering. Hincks was not on... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
research, for several years I have been working with colleagues in the HBS finance group on something called the Global Financial System Project. We are trying to understand the global financial system and the implications of institutional change. Our conceptual... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Orthopaedics and Spine Hospital, Emory University Hospital, and Wesley Woods Hospital in a staged rollout. While Dr. Bornstein felt good about how the implementation had gone thus far, as he looked ahead next month to July 13, 2009, the fast approaching go-live View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne