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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
higher than inflation of the competing currency(ies). I also don’t understand how it can be “legal” tender for any period of time since, in general, governments want to control everything, especially money, if possible. — Pete Pifer (PMD 20, 1970) Another View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services
events are big hits; nontechnical volunteers can build and maintain a club Web site; and the low cost appeals to small clubs with limited resources. HBS signed a long-term agreement last fall with Harris Internet Services, a leading... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
them to focus on. Recognizing that there's a lot of big wins people are making right now because their emissions are dropping because they're not going on those long trips that they had planned on doing otherwise and thinking more about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
graduates emerge ill-educated, Bistany counters); Investing money in education and schools raises quality (when what's important is how many books a student reads, not how big the library is); and Learning by memorizing is bad (rote... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
model that will draw faculty, students, and alumni from across the University to reinvent how companies compete and thrive in the 21st century. "How will we do this?" he said. "By focusing on big problems, on an open platform, with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
best-selling software package, while watching his wife do their finances by hand twenty years ago. "Computers — especially the ones we were working with in 1982 — are crummy at a lot of things, but they happen to be very good at calculation and View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
companies seemed really intriguing, but we had a hard time looking past the current portfolio of challenged companies to see that there might be some big winners in these particular sectors. Data Domain went... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
services, or business initiatives in the chemicals, technology, and consumer products industries. Amabile is working on a book based on the data from the ten-year study, which includes questionnaires, interviews, independent creativity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
there are also amazing opportunities, a viewpoint that is closer to Mark Zuckerberg’s thinking. But I’d like to see people who are interested in these big questions look beyond the media buzz. Don’t listen to Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
“We spoke to folks in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
and then I started a company with several MIT professors. And then I came back to academia after I was out for 10 years. And I had to get a doctorate in order to join the faculty here. And I brought with me a couple of big questions. And... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
more private letter, to choosing to use a credit card rather than cash for our purchases. Make no mistake: Big Data knows more about you than Big Brother ever will! Data-driven... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
innovation becomes clear, and acceptance is the eventual outcome. For patients, movement along this timeline requires a high comfort level with the fact that this new data will not be used against them in any way. Will the recent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
of HBS alumni and faculty, and by the School itself as an institution. Excerpts from the book follow. The Big Bang Fifty years ago, Kiechel writes, corporate strategy did not even exist as a concept, let alone as the foundational element... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
United States became a big part of the phenomenon. Twitch, which launched in 2011 as the YouTube of gaming, was designed for watching and streaming video game play and connecting with like-minded players. It was also the perfect vehicle... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
variety of data-related topics, from data privacy to digital health to the use of big data for social good (see sidebar below). Five of the six courses (Business Analytics... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
JP: Yeah, so long and strong relationships, first I would say, there's, much data that backs this up in terms of impact on happiness, in terms of impact on health and well-being. Some of that has been conducted at Harvard. Robert... View Details