AI and Machine Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away

the media vertical) more profitable. A May 2011 investment memo [cowritten with former colleagues Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) and David Cowan (MBA 1992)] had this to say: Peter and his team were “pioneering the... View Details

21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

market—and we have to electrify it. And to do that, we have to solve the storage issue. “So, given that technology is going to change, I think the most important things to learn at HBS are how to manage... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977

risky start-up founded by some kid who left Harvard early. “High tech” had a slightly different meaning: Nice offices had big IBM Selectric II typewriters featuring a prancing steel ball. Fax machines were cutting-edge, View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

themes? Eric: The first theme is mechanization. If you were a young person in the early Republic in America and you could build a machine that did what had been traditionally done by hand, you were in the... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff

and the computer with one of the partner's secretaries," she recalls. She spent two-and-a-half years there, learning business at a high level. "It was like drinking from a fire hose." But something was... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

Minister) Dr. Manmohan Singh. Up until that time, government controls on production (referred to as the “license raj” or “permit raj”) created a stagnant environment for competition and entrepreneurial activity. MBAs who came home during... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

24 Mar 2022
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Well Said

struggled with, specifically? Words, phrases, communication points. And how did you get over them? AL: So many. I had so many struggles. So, I mean, there's lots of sounds that are present in English that] just do not exist in Albanian.... View Details

03 Jul 2024
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Surviving the Iditarod

villages, Elim and Golovin that are about 20 miles apart or so. And somehow the mayor of one of the communities heard that we were in a pickle and came out on his snow View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

while showing off an industrial refrigerator stacked with free-range eggs and 25-kilo blocks of Normandy butter. Trays of madeleines cool on racks. A few feet away, workers monitor a machine that wraps the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

of the research problem, at this point. I’m the subject and I’m the researcher. I’m like a perpetual-motion machine of happiness research.” In this conversation with the Bulletin, Professor Brooks talks... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

learning how to manage. Ultimately though, he would go on to spend 35 years at the company, becoming CEO in 2001. He was so dedicated to GE that, at age 50, he got the company's logo tattooed on his leg. Immelt, now venture partner at New... View Details

02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

also brought about change. In 1874, Dun placed an order with E. Remington and Sons for 100 of the newfangled machines at a cost of $55 each, assuring the future of the young, struggling company. After that,... View Details