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Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)

The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts. HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details

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reasonable steps to ensure that the acquisition, distribution, and consumption of alcohol otherwise complies with applicable law and University policy. A. Alcohol Service for HBS Events All alcoholic beverages at events on the HBS campus... View Details

November 2023
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Copilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub

By: Frank Nagle, Shane Greenstein, Maria P. Roche, Nataliya Langburd Wright and Sarah Mehta

This case tells the story of Microsoft’s 2018 acquisition of GitHub and the subsequent launch of GitHub Copilot, a tool that uses generative artificial intelligence to suggest snippets of code to software developers in real time. Set in late 2021, when Copilot was... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Product Launch; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; California

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04 Apr 2016
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Meet the Middle East & North Africa Club

convinced of their decision. Additionally, we encourage applicants to be fully themselves in the application process. It is easy to get distracted by benchmarking past View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. “AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn’t being used at Bath Iron Works,” he recalls. “I ran the numbers on the cost savings and—lo and behold—won the award. Management... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

November 2017
Case

The Digital Factory – Siemens: Electronic Works Amberg

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott F. Johnson

The Electronic Works Amberg (EWA) was Siemens' most advanced factory. The plant built industrial automation equipment using state-of-the-art manufacturing techniques. Siemens was considering creating a consulting business for its manufacturing clients. Given the EWA's... View Details

Keywords: Siemens; Internet Of Things; Industrie 4.0; Manufacturing; Consulting; Digital Factory; Ewa; Amberg; Electronic Works Amberg; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Technology Industry; Germany

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04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

Bennis and O'Toole trace origins of the argument back many years, but point especially to two studies in 1959 supported by the Ford and Carnegie Foundations. These studies suggested greater emphasis on the study, research, and application... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Dec 2021
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

gap. Why did you decide to pursue an MBA given your STEM background? At Citi my job was mostly to help make applications for whatever our traders needed. While I enjoyed developing technology, I also wanted to learn more about, and... View Details

22 May 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

Business of Aesthetics to second-year MBA students and select applicants from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The course looks at the role of aesthetics in strategy, organizational structure, succession planning, and investment... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

school’s piggy bank in his paper, How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics, forthcoming in Management Science. “Some of the top schools make enormous amounts of money—just extraordinary, close to $200 million,”... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

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Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?

thing that an applicant can bring to the call is an understanding of the type of problem they are trying to solve. Is there a specific challenge you are trying to overcome at work? Do you have a particular subject that you’re interested... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Sep 2024
HBS Seminar

Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia & Amazon

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

open source development process. For example, IBM released half a million lines of its Cloudscape program, a simple database that resides inside a software application instead of as a full-fledged database program, to the Apache Software... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

23 Aug 2023

HBS Perspectives from Taiwan

Join a panel of local alumni and current students from Taiwan who will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated their personal and professional interests while at HBS. This in-person event will be a great opportunity for prospective View Details

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

references to scientific studies and other patents. When companies apply for patents, they must cite all of the past technology, research, and products that underpin their proposed inventions. Applications that directly referred to at... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

a reseller to completely control prices, and the prices were quite low." On the flip side, Apple manages its iPhone App Store as an MSP, creating a space where application developers can market and sell a wide range of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

applicable relative to others? "Network approaches may be a tremendously valuable approach in the nonprofit sector that has often been overlooked," she concluded. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association

chose to join AFAA leadership to give back to a community that has provided me a lot of assistance, friendship, and support. During my application to HBS, one of the AFAA leaders, Phillip Jones, was incredibly helpful. Last year, as a... View Details

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