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- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
in a recent article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard Business School professors Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli suggest intervening at points along the algorithm’s decision-making chain using what they call... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
helps drive innovation and growth—and could even become more vital to global competitiveness in the future. “The debate is red-hot right now, but in the background, the workforces are rapidly aging in most advanced countries, and public debt levels are high,” he says.... View Details
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
philanthropist, and president of the First National Bank of New York, Baker was an extraordinary business leader. At the age of 23, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National... View Details
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
entry into a new market for Plámo, a company that created startup companies in Europe and emerging markets based upon existing successful business models. She had only been with the company a few months, and while excited by the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
startup experience. Colson spent the majority of her career managing natural gas combined-cycle plants at NextEra Energy. She also worked in management consulting at Boston Consulting Group, where she focused on managing... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Claire Zeng Business Track Runner-Up DoriVac (DNA Origami Vaccine) is a biotech startup for improving cancer treatment using a novel DNA nanoparticle platform. We develop treatments that teach patients' immune systems to recognize and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
the challenge. “When Elizabeth shared her experience and her ideas, I basically said, ‘How can I help?’” Klein says. “To me there was such a compelling need.” Many other HBS sectionmates supported the startup with seed funding to launch... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
sponsored by government agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) or the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Previously, it was possible to figure out what patents came directly out of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
with Karim Lakhani in 2022. Maria P. Roche : Winner of the 2022 Strategy Science Conference Best Paper Award for “Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub” with Annamaria Conti and Christian... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
National Institutes of Health that spurred more women to become scientists and discouraged biases among men in the field, Koning says. While male inventors far outnumber women inventors, biomedical patents secured by women rose from 6... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Judges - Alumni
machine learning), VR/AR, robotics/autonomy, and space. He has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 Venture Capital list. Brandon is currently a formal advisor to CASIS, the organization designated by NASA to manage, promote, and broker research on the International Space... View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
Education Week National news source focusing on pre-K-12 education policy. Serving as a bridge between the worlds of policy and practice, Education Week is recognized as American pre-collegiate education’s “newspaper of record.” The... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
space race have been blessed somewhat by the glamour of it all. Investors enthusiastically, maybe too much so, backed a host of startups including those headed by superstar names like Sir Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk. Rich... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt.... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
don’t we do our own nationally representative survey?” The result is a new working paper, Hunting for Talent: Firm-Driven Labor Market Search in America, that quantifies the steep increase in outbound recruiting by firms largely at the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn’t align with upper management’s. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined Cherokee View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
dating” between Harvard and MIT biotech PhDs and HBS MBAs, taught how to develop a pitch and business plan, and nurtured relationships with venture capitalists for funding opportunities. Hilton explained: “this was a unique way to get hands-on experience with climate... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
(PhDOB 2019) has studied the issues facing local papers from multiple angles. Now, as cofounder and CEO of the National Trust for Local News, she has developed a first-of-its-kind model to preserve local news as a public good. The premise... View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
while their core platform continues to serve the nation and globally, with over 10,000 unique visitors a month. What background do Climate Circle founders have? As you can begin to see from the founders I’ve regaled you with, Climate... View Details