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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
WASSERMAN: Shining the light of data on entrepreneurial ventures in order to chart the terrain founders will face when they set out to pursue their dreams. Watch Professor Wasserman explain key insights from his book, Founders Dilemmas... View Details
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman
August. The search for a new chairman was prompted in mid-2017 after activist investing firm Elliott Management bought a 9 percent share of the company. That move also triggered about $100 million in cost-cutting changes, including 400... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
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
Keywords: April White
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
Tamin Pechet (MBA 2007) founded and manages a platform of firms that support and invest in innovative water and infrastructure resources. He is CEO of Upwell, chairman of Imagine H2O, and founder of Banyan Water. In this interview, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
explores these differences in a working paper titled "Limits to Globalization: Organizational Homogeneity and Diversity in the Semiconductor Industry." Extensive interviews with managers at nine major firms (four American and five... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
coming out of labs over the next 10 years will surpass anything we’ve experienced in the past,” says HBS senior fellow Richard Hamermesh, who co-chairs the accelerator with Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985). “Looking ahead, we expect to have the ecosystem in place to improve... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of accounting rules and regulations. What’s more,... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
loyalty, dedication to continuous improvement, high levels of education, technical capability — are evident. What has to happen is the government must implement economic reforms. I believe it will happen. But the question is when. — Garry... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
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, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
corporate performance. Using archival sources, Kang examined data from all publicly held firms in the U.S. textile industry from 1983 to 1992. "I was able to look at an industry with different kinds of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
company can ever be completely safe — even if a firm disconnects from the Internet, unauthorized personnel or disgruntled employees inside the company’s facilities can figure out ways to access its computers — some firms, especially those... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
data mining to coding. Eventually, there will be industries that are fully automated and certain jobs will go away, but new ones will be created in that process. From Baker Library: Not surprisingly, high tech and telecom View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
consumers prefer single songs over music “bundles.” The result? It is time for the industry to rethink its products and prices, writes Associate Professor Anita Elberse. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6312.html. India Transformed? Insights from the View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
On the Horns of an Investment Dilemma Financial management firms that focus on sustainable investing have been gaining ground for twenty years now. As an example, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a global association of nearly... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
of product management for search and data at AT&T Interactive, then joined Elsevier, where he is using search to make the world a better place. “I am driven by a passion to understand the needs of people and apply technology to meet those... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
Sanskrit to the uninitiated, and the conversation it sparks is equally impenetrable. “Could the claustrum be represented by the ‘where’ region?” “Does orientation get anchored like grid cells?” “Is there any physiological data that tells... View Details