Machinery and Machining - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2020
News

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

strategy. In addition, nearly 50 faculty members have conducted research and published articles in three broad categories: examining the effects of AI on particular firms, applying existing machine learning... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2017
News

Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

beginning stages of a re-architecting of our companies and economies based on digital technologies—notably artificial intelligence and machine learning,” he says. “With this... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Magician Turns HBS Upside Down

research and development that go into developing tricks. He personally creates technology and builds devices in his own machine shop to achieve illusions View Details

Keywords: magic; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

produce a machine based on the recently developed process named xerography. Invented by the patent lawyer Chester Carlson, xerography involved a process by which images were transferred from one piece of paper to another by means of... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

01 Jun 2010
News

Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops

with cement, pour the mixture into molds, and bake it into slabs. Italian polishing machines grind the slabs to custom widths and polish them to a glossy finish. The slabs... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing

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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

analyzing its marketing and the sales data. NOTE: Full list of client partners included Calendly, Branch Furniture, Coconut Cartel, Halen Brands, OWYN, Birchbox, Young Invincibles, Color Camp, Women 2.0 and... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Robots to the Rescue

wrote in third grade about wanting to make a machine that would do all my homework,” recalls Mountz, the affable founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts-based company that is revolutionizing the way... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; e-commerce; order fulfillment; robotics; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

Clarence W. Seamans

After making a name for himself in sales at E. Remington and Sons, Seamans and his associates bought the company and eventually merged it into what became Union Typewriter.... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

12 Jun 2017
News

Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO

Internet” — a term GE uses to describe how to use software and data to make machines smarter and more interactive. “He was miles ahead of the world in terms of redefining us as... View Details

Portrait Project

Polina Yampolska

Ten years ago, sitting in a cramped, unheated kitchen in my family's apartment on the outskirts of Kiev, I wrote the closing paragraph of my college application essay: "I like to be a small part in a huge machine that is called human... View Details

19 Sep 2019
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Predicting Human Behaviors

“Self-driving cars today know what they are seeing and how fast the object is moving, but they aren’t good at predicting what a human will do next,” explains Misra. “We want to help machines understand... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Nov 2018
News

Don’t Be Afraid of AI

Dubinsky: And we get example after example, I just used that one 'cause it's so visual, of ways in which there are things we cannot do today, or it's very dangerous for humans today, that if we had a machine... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

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A Manager's Guide to Leveraging Technology - Course Catalog

computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI is driving unprecedented levels of investment in IT. Globally, IT investments exceed $2.5 trillion, while in the United States, over... View Details

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Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

powerful industrial enterprise to which satisfied workers devoted themselves. Fortune magazine, for example—the quintessence of sophistication in graphic design and photojournalism—catered to the elite managerial class, portraying the... View Details

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High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy prospects is just starting to take off here in Bangladesh.” Jacob... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

George A. Schaefer

A trained accountant, Schaefer’s first task as CEO was to dramatically cut costs. Caterpillar’s large, earth-moving products were no longer in high demand as in earlier years, so Schaefer decided to invest in making smaller machines for... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

active ingredients for anti-nausea drugs, even the drug inside an EpiPen. There were also more mundane items like milking machine parts and telescopic gunsights for rifles. The careful selection avoided... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

Alfred N. Steele

grow out of its “poor man’s cola” image, and created a vending machine business for Pepsi. All of these changes allowed Pepsi to gain a great deal of market share, predominantly at the expense of Coca-Cola,... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Fast Answer

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools

Stamps Reading room on the CD-ROM machine (next to the Bloomberg terminal). PolicyMap: web-based GIS platform for the United States. It captures data through custom demographic maps, tables, reports and analytics.... View Details

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