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Profiles - MBA
hearing-impaired community and gain a closer perspective on the necessities of a specific group. After validating the accuracy of the developed prototype, community members encouraged me to take it to the market as a developed product.... View Details
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
situations. When you are able to project yourself into a future situation, almost as if you were actually in it, you can better anticipate which motivations will be most powerful and prepare to manage them. The point of increasing your View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
exacerbating the drilling accuracy problem. "No one person, or even one leadership team, or one organization or agency, could have successfully innovated to solve this problem" Rescuers soon divided into subteams to experiment with... View Details
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Generative AI - Alumni
hiring manager. Read more Of course, ChatGPT won’t replace the cover letter and resume writing process entirely. You should still spend time editing the text outputs for accuracy and to make sure your voice is present. Think of GPT as a... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
processing orders) but how long it takes to complete one unit of that activity (the time required to process one order). Once again, precision is not critical; rough accuracy is sufficient. In the case of our example, let's suppose that... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- Web
Health Care - Faculty & Research
to rapidly build and iterate on new AI products, was central to Hillen's vision of giving VideaHealth a competitive edge in the market. VideaHealth’s AI technology aspires to detect dental conditions on x-rays with a level of accuracy and... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
with the accuracy of the receivers' suspicions. They also noted instances in which receivers showed no suspicion toward deceivers. On average, receivers tended to trust the bald-faced liars far more than they trusted the allocators who... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
too narrow, or underconfident. When combining probability forecasts, users need to adjust for those individual tendencies. Measuring accuracy and tracking performance are crucial to improving forecasts. Just as there are different methods... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
aligned with IBM's needs and capabilities. But think about IBM's value proposition to this woman. She types 80 words a minute and almost never makes a mistake. IBM was telling her, "Why don't you change your behavior and use a system that gives you lower View Details
- Web
Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online
Unbiased Samples The Normal Distribution Confidence Intervals Amazon's Inventory Sampling Featured Exercises Calculate sample statistics and apply the properties of the normal distribution Calculate confidence intervals to estimate the View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
Zhu, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School, who details the rise and fall of the information giant in a new working paper. "There has been lots of research on the accuracy of... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
similarly strive to develop and quickly market a minimum viable algorithm. This approach may take some convincing; the DNA of founding technical teams is often around solving technical puzzles and increasing accuracy from 90 percent to 95... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
so will its golfers. (Japan is Callaway’s largest market after the United States, followed by Europe.) On Topgolf: “Callaway is a part-owner. You hit a ball that’s been microchipped to track accuracy and distance and score points for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
recommendations that the company offered a $1 million prize in 2009 to anyone who could build a system that improved prediction accuracy by just 10 percent. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/o3PhIjbcup30mxRiWNTV][/div] “Companies now... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
give candidates equal access to voters, and monitoring the accuracy of handouts and social media posts that campaigns share. “It’s important to make sure that all campaigns are able to get their message out through these powerful... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
can map them with ever more accuracy is always within your reach. We can all observe the environment we’re seeking to influence; and knowing that everyone harbors a deep need for safety and self-esteem, you can gain insight into how the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
Swiss watchmakers realized they could no longer cite time-keeping precision as the main selling point of a handcrafted mechanical watch, Raffaelli explains. Quartz enabled mass-produced accuracy on the cheap. A revival depended on a new... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
every single person on planet Earth. The data that we have today is impacting about a billion people by the accuracy of the weather forecast that they had. We have customers in 65 countries, but there are 192—and there are 8 billion... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
relatively good forecasts of actual box office returns. In fact, the forecasting accuracy is what makes it such a valuable research setting. I used HSX to measure how the involvement of a movie star affects likely theatrical movie... View Details