Machine Learning Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

"shaped" by many things—colleagues and friends, homes, climate, culture, and even our machines and gadgets—as well as our jobs. As he put it, "We are the product of a set of genes and their interaction with a myriad of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
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TetraScience: Noise and Signal

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn

In 2019, TetraScience CEO “Spin” Wang needed advice. Five years earlier, he had cofounded a startup that saw early success with a hardware product designed to help laboratory scientists in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical spaces more easily collect data from... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Digital Platforms; Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Organizational Structure; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Boston

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Tamara Lynn Nall

"Faster than a speeding bullet... able to jump buildings in a single bound... it's a bird, it's a plane, NO!... it's Superwoman!!!" I want to be a role model to show the world that a woman can do everything... I want to: Record... View Details

01 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

Artificial Intelligence and the Machine Learning Revolution in Finance: Cogent Labs and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

into a disruptee. Learning To Chicken-scratch If a technology is to succeed, in theory at least, it should not require people to radically change their behavior. Instead, companies that promote the technology should hope for a gradual... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

which makes it slightly smaller than New York City. Yet with Yeo's hand on the rudder of its economy, it tacked from the manufacturing of labor-intensive finished goods like washing machines and televisions in the 1980s to the making of... View Details

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

Twittersphere that they would investigate. Technology is undeniably transforming the financial services industry. Fintechs, Big Tech, and banks are using increasing volumes of data, artificial intelligence, and machine View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

March 2024 (Revised June 2025)
Teaching Note

CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub

By: Frank Nagle and Maria P. Roche

This teaching note is the companion to case N9-624-010 CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub, which takes place in late 2021. The case briefly describes the history of both GitHub and Microsoft with a particular focus on open source software (OSS)—software... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Open Source Distribution; Product Development; Commercialization; Competition; Resource Allocation; Technology Industry

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25 Feb 2020
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From Das’s Desk

reunion model in several ways. First, we are taking a page from the positive response to the Insights program introduced at last year’s reunions. These sessions feature faculty members and other speakers addressing 10 key topics that... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

24 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand

mining and exploratory analysis, and familiarized herself with the ins and outs of various machine learning models. Ho took this newly acquired data and analytics knowledge with her to HBS, and,... View Details

Keywords: Technology

24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Data-Driven and in Demand

mining and exploratory analysis, and familiarized herself with the ins and outs of various machine learning models. Ho took this newly acquired data and analytics knowledge with her to HBS, and,... View Details

07 May 2020
News

Ensuring Student Equity

Once the public schools in North Chicago decided to close in mid-March because of COVID-19, it took Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) and her staff less than 72 hours to totally revamp the business model for the nonprofit she runs, North... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

04 Sep 2019
News

A Measured Approach

machine learning model, which enabled the organization to locate between 50 and 200 percent more out-of-school children for no additional cost. “That’s the sort of success case that gets us really excited,... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

Memoir, by Anna Wiener The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, by Robert Iger —Kurt Daniel (MBA 2000) Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering, by Makoto Fujimura A reflection on... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds

students spend 15 weeks and $5,000 launching a business. Patrick Petitti (MBA 2014), Rob Biederman (MBA 2014), and their teammates started with some zany ideas—manufacturing knitted nose warmers, for instance—before settling on the model... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

technologies and the eventual creation of a regulatory structure to prevent entrepreneurial chaos. LR: To follow up on that, Professor Spar, you've created a four-phase model of how companies develop along the technological frontier—from... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Oct 2000
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Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices

problems for learning and for change." Jensen believes this tendency is the source of most so-called people problems in organizations. Jensen's model defines two regimes of behavior: the Resourceful,... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)

26 Jun 2025
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The Vinyl Revival

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details

02 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?

"as part of a small team building a new company ... the time we spend together (as opposed to the day per week that she and her colleagues telecommute) ... is the most valuable." Jack Downey makes the case for the doubters: "Humans are social animals who... View Details