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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
finds that while before 1930 the Colombian government granted United Fruit generous concessions and helped repress labor unionism, after 1930 the company, responding to growing nationalism, a stronger labor movement, and increasing demands from local leaders for a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
Recognizing the potential of online learning, both to reach new audiences and to strengthen its engagement with alumni, the School is developing HBX, its own online platform. While sharing best practices with edX (a joint venture of... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- News
Education Without Limits
Keywords: onling learning; videos; tutorials; Khan Academy; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
In this new series, the Bulletin will feature occasional reports on faculty research in progress. Who Has Your Number? Customer information is the lifeblood of business. Indeed, a company's success often hinges on how well it understands... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Chances Are
Years ago, while Amram Shapiro (MBA 1978) and a team of researchers were busy creating the probability database at the heart of his new compendium, The Book of Odds, the daughter of a friend sat in on one of their weekly data reviews. A stat caught her attention: There... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
A COYOTE SPOTTED resting on Ohiri Field in November was later found wandering on Harvard Way near Morris Hall at 3 a.m. A Mass. Environmental Police investigation found that the animal "posed no danger." THE FALL I-LAB SCRAMBLE student start-up crash course: 40 hours... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
probability of being the wrong decision. If you can apply some data, you will heighten your probability of making a better decision." Howe isn't speaking theoretically. Today companies like his can capture, store, and analyze massive data sets, group individuals with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
Image by Brian Stauffer What would the "perfect" tax plan look like? Sheridan Schechner (MBA/JD 1983), managing director, Barclays Capital, USA I'd envision three simple building blocks: a consumption tax with no exclusions that eliminates the penalty to saving; a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
centered on developing more dynamic online resources, including an informative electronic newsletter and searchable, Web-based Class Notes embedded with e-mail hot links. Regarding delivery, the committee felt there should be more... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
Yahoo is able to collect data, such as click patterns, from its users and use the information to individually "tune" searches to users' personal tendencies. Such product improvements, Horowitz said, will change the nature of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- June 2023
- Article
How New Ideas Diffuse in Science
By: Mengjie Cheng, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith and Daniel A. McFarland
What conditions help new ideas spread? Can knowledge entrepreneurs’ position and develop new ideas in ways that help them take off? Most innovation research focuses on products and their reference. That focus ignores the ideas themselves and the broader ideational... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Adoption; Natural Language Processing; Knowledge; Science; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Analytics and Data Science
Cheng, Mengjie, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith, and Daniel A. McFarland. "How New Ideas Diffuse in Science." American Sociological Review 88, no. 3 (June 2023): 522–561.
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
You’re Never Done Learning
The popular Career Webinar series returns this fall with a full slate of targeted, practical sessions presented by Alumni Career & Professional Development. Hoping to increase your personal engagement at work? Looking to launch an independent consulting business? These... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
As a second-year student, Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) worked with Jingsheng Huang, managing executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai, to organize an impact investing conference in Shanghai. (photo courtesy Harvard Center Shanghai) As a second-year student, Cissy... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
produced innovations in information and other technologies. Some questioned the data. Others counseled patience. David Caulfield sees productivity improvement, but not necessarily among workers. In questioning the way we measure... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Read This and Write
short story can be written in an afternoon or a weekend. We all have stories to tell, and it is a thing of beauty to share your mind with the world.” For this year’s competition (deadline June 30), Koruth welcomes submissions at... View Details
Keywords: Momaya Press; short stories; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information
- 2011
- Article
Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia
By: Michael Zhang and Feng Zhu
In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between group size and incentives to contribute in the setting of Chinese Wikipedia, the Chinese language version of an online encyclopedia that relies entirely on voluntary contributions. The group at Chinese Wikipedia... View Details
Keywords: Rights; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Sharing; Behavior; Satisfaction; Size; Government and Politics; Economics; Information Technology Industry; Hong Kong; Taiwan; Singapore
Zhang, Michael, and Feng Zhu. "Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia." American Economic Review 101, no. 4 (June 2011): 1601–1615.
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
makes our nation more secure and more prosperous, because it enables our organization to be much more effective. “The threats that we see across the world cross all of our borders—and so as we share View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
fared in the current business climate. (Please see below for a more complete report on the Hong Kong conference.) These annual conferences are vitally important to our alumni community. Not only do they strengthen connections among our graduates, but they also provide... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
each other, the School has rolled out section e-mail lists. By accessing www.alumni.hbs.edu/class/section, you will be able to send an e-mail message to your entire MBA section or Executive Education class - a wonderful way to share news... View Details