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  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

a three-person startup based out of our home. The difference in size and scale is often challenging, but is training me to compartmentalize my head space, wear different hats, and stay grounded! “While the PCL group is expanding borders... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Again Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing. ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN Tip: Use technology to scale your organization to current conditions An old canard applies to today's environment: Nobody notices information... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2023
  • News

Yahoo Acquires Alumni Startup Wagr

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Last week, Yahoo announced that it had acquired the sports betting startup Wagr, which was cofounded by Mario Malave (MBA 2020) and Eliana Eskinazi (MBA 2020). "Yahoo Sports offers us a stage to build products... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

polarized light and mirages and Wood's own way of doing things. . . . I decided that the world needed a synthetic polarizer, an extensive sheet of polarizing material, in order to be able to carry out on a large scale all the things... View Details
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

investment analysis. Highlights Climate-Related Risks and Responses Generate Capital Show Hide Details Concepts The Era of Climate Change Asset Allocation Amid the Climate Crisis Funding and Scaling Up Climate Innovation Featured... View Details
  • Web

Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services

maps; synthetic controls) Visualizations Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Natural Language Processing State-of-the-art data retrieval (e.g., Twitter data, Google news posts, location data) Optical Character Recognition (OCR; digitizing text such as... View Details
  • Web

Global Activities 2020

Fellowship (GO: Africa), are working to encourage and scale businesses on the continent from their base in Ghana. Asia Pacific HBS Engagement Across the Region The Harvard Shanghai Center and HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

"a theoretical sweet spot where scale fosters innovation, beyond which the complexity starts to stifle it?" A third executive will raise questions concerning the impact of the Internet on the management of these processes. He... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

a large scale into selling refrigerated meat and dairy food from New Zealand and Australia to Europe. 3 The upshot was the creation of diversified 'investment groups,' or business groups in the terminology preferred here, around the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

economy is going to falter, even if their reasons are wrong, in the short term the economy may well falter. If consumers believe that they'll soon be in economic trouble, they will reduce their consumption and start scaling back on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that matches the problem.”... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer
  • 20 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

each other for longer than five years. First, the participants rated jokes on a scale from “extremely funny” to “not funny at all.” Then, after seeing their partners’ ratings for four of the jokes, they predicted their partners’ ratings... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

major players by virtue of their scale and the scope of their activities, and in some communities they have been the only consistent service providers in a generation," he observes. "They can assess their performance much further down the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

Introduction to Launching Tech Ventures ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Launching Tech Ventures $1,850 Next 5-week session starts April 16th Enroll Now Gain proven frameworks to build a viable, valuable tech... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

in states like Massachusetts to be unduly expensive and prevents growers in states like California from achieving economies of scale because of limited market size. Small, fragmented markets also limit cannabis suppliers from incurring... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

without charisma. As he himself wrote, “Some reporters weighed me against Steve Jobs and rated me low on the charisma scale ... I’m a good administrator ... Steve captivates audiences.” Amelio was preparing for Apple’s bankruptcy soon... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Profile

Cait Haught

perspectives." In addition to participating in classes, Cait has taken leadership roles on campus. In her second year, she served as Conference Chair of the Women's Student Association conference. "I had run events before, but nothing on this View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

The approach has been successfully applied in more than 100 organizations and readily scales up even to companies with hundreds of thousands of products and services, dozens of operating departments, and thousands of customers. The end... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan