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- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
girls’ JV high school basketball team and ran a tutoring program. “I realized I was happier doing that and wanted to be in education full time. That’s what I’m passionate about,” says Agarwal, who took a leap of faith and landed at Success Academy, a View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
the space agency in applying open innovation approaches to big data and computational challenges, and works with Harvard Catalyst, the University-wide initiative led by Harvard Medical School. What are some examples of different kinds of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
when energy use is lowest; companies will begin to use data to predict and prevent home maintenance issues. Soon: New homes will be wired for connectivity just as they are wired for electricity. “Think about a world where, instead of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
face with realistic business situations right in the classroom." Building rapidly on the skill base and fiber network already in place at the School, such an initiative has indeed been launched. Progress to date has included the... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
challenge. In 2012, she launched the Intrinsic Schools, a network of public charter schools with an innovative approach to the middle school and high school experience. Rather than employ the data from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
of business and society is changing not only how we work and live, but also how we tackle the toughest issues. Lakhani oversees the Crowd Innovation Lab, a Harvard University initiative focused on crowdsourcing. He conducts field experiments using online View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
governments, NGOs, foundations, and other international development organizations, to enable more effective decision-making. IDinsight has offices in three countries and works across a diverse set of development sectors. In India,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
is that bad guys have so much data that they just haven’t gotten to yours,” says Thomas. It’s easy to steal your credit card. “The only hard part is using it without tipping anybody off.” There is evidence of the relative ease of these... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
Lakhani co-directs, and the HBS Digital Initiative, led by its director, David Homa. Platforms such as the Learning Network will amplify the Institute’s work, explains Stefan Esposito, senior director of the Learning Network. “It will... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
lending rates and economic activity. Prevailing economic theory holds that the cost-of-capital effect is negligible in an ideal market. Malcolm P. Baker, the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, has investigated this... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
thought the client wanted and needed. Her case was strong, the data sound. But the executives didn’t bite. “I just remember presenting this incredible data that spoke directly to the very thing they hired me... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 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
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
What is Web3?
NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS (NFTs) are digital tokens, each of which is individually unique and thus has a distinguishable owner on the blockchain. These are commonly used for establishing ownership over digital art and collectibles, event tickets, View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
education data company BrightBytes found that an estimated 30 percent of ed tech licenses that schools purchased were never used in the classroom, and nearly 98 percent weren’t used “intensely”—that is, students got less than 10 hours of... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
startup financing. To be sure, venture capital offers many benefits, including the networks and insights that experienced investors bring to the table. But all of that comes at a price. Most obviously, a founder who takes venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 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 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
Bush Photo courtesy athenahealth Main article: Where Innovation Rules What do you do if your start-up turns out to be a little too far ahead of its time? If you’re Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997), you use what you’ve learned to jump-start a successful venture in a related... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
full effect when we won the Section Olympics. 2008C had “12 Wagons,” which we screamed with much delight. And when someone was late to class, we would boo them. 2008J had a call and response: One person: “Whose house?” The rest of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
difference in our world." CURRENT READING The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman As president of New York City-based Women's World Banking (WWB), Nancy Barry has changed the lives of millions of poor women and their families around the globe. The nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Research Brief: The Best Medicine
clinical trials,” Schwartzstein explains. That in turn could lead to lower levels of representation in clinical trials and less data on Black patients. Actually increasing representation in trial populations could help break the cycle,... View Details