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- 28 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard
effectively managing teams, compared to medical school, where there is no formal training around these skills. I think this is really important and part of why MD/MBAs will be well poised to address many of the challenges facing American... View Details
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
Integration on Stock Valuations. One example of this was when I was asked to evaluate a large OEM company based in Asia. I evaluated the company’s ESG performance by applying the Sustainability Accounting Board’s (SASB) ESG Integration framework and View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
graphics, to target the right audience, and to measure responses instantly. But many experts contend that Internet advertising is still in its infancy. There is a widely held belief that in the future we will compare today's Web ads with... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- Web
Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Waijenburg : 2010: Winner of the Prize for Best Master’s Thesis Completed at the Faculty of the Humanities at Utrecht University for “Living Standards in British Africa in a Comparative Perspective, 1880–1945: Is Poverty Destiny?” Marlous... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
merger and acquisition activity in the year following the interview. Also, the communication styles that emerged from jointly utilizing text and image data had more statistical power in explaining variability in the data, as compared to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
This is important because drivers of long-term survival remain comparatively undertheorized. There is little theory on whether mechanisms of competitive advantage are sustainable, replicable, and relevant to survival that persists over... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
artificial intelligence, and related technologies in the twenty-first century Making Sense of RecommendationsWe compare computer recommender systems to human recommenders in a domain that affords humans many advantages: predicting which... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2019
- Blog Post
Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA
we want to be can be hard. As a mother/parent, it may actually be easier, and this is because your boundaries are so much clearer. Being a mother/parent grounds you – don’t miss the good part of it! Don’t compare yourself to others. Your... View Details
- 29 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)
compared to any racial or ethnic demographic in the United States. 4. Latinos currently represent $1 trillion of spending while their market share continues to grow. I hope to use my education here to help change these statistics in my... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
patents to find out how past inventions influenced future innovations. Among patents granted to companies in 2010, those that benefited, directly or indirectly, from federal largesse were cited 6.33 times, on average, in the next five years, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos The Revolution in Advertising: From Don Draper to Big Data Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales What do you think? What big flops and bold wins have businesses... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
pairs and filled out worksheets about their strengths and weaknesses as salespeople. They then compared notes and talked through how they could improve. In the other, pairs of employees received a financial bonus based on their combined... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
resilience of consumer spending has saved the day. Until recently, it has accounted for 72 percent of the American economy, compared to around 60 percent in European countries where government spending is higher. Given the likely depth... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- Web
Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
NOVEMBER 2018 (REVISED JANUARY 2019) Mark Tercek, Charlotte Kaiser, and the NatureVest team have spent almost a decade structuring investments in conservation. While proud of their work to date, the $200M they have raised is insignificant View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis
- May 2017
- Other Article
Stepwise Distributed Open Innovation Contests for Software Development: Acceleration of Genome-Wide Association Analysis
By: Andrew Hill, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, Iain Kilty and Scott Jelinsky
BACKGROUND:
The association of differing genotypes with disease-related phenotypic traits offers great potential to both help identify new therapeutic targets and support stratification of patients who would gain the greatest benefit from specific drug classes.... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Genome-wide Association Study; Logistic Regression; Open Innovation; PLINK; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Hill, Andrew, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, Iain Kilty, and Scott Jelinsky. "Stepwise Distributed Open Innovation Contests for Software Development: Acceleration of Genome-Wide Association Analysis." GigaScience 6, no. 5 (May 2017).
- 26 Mar 2014
- HBS Seminar
Brian Kahin, MIT
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
challenges facing professional negotiators whose work is very high-stakes? If it's possible to generalize, how do you view the skills and practices of most negotiators working on high-stakes issues? Are there large or different "skill issues" View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
of several reasons for the careful planning of executive succession. Further, many pay packages are determined on the basis of what others in comparable jobs, regardless of performance, are being paid. This creates a natural disconnect... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
long-standing feature of economics. The theoretical arguments focused traditionally on the ability to exploit gains from trade, essentially leading to higher productivity by exploiting comparative advantages. Over time, arguments related... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels