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- 22 Dec 2015
- News
Algorithms Need Managers, Too
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
cuts that eviscerated core services such as street sweeping and litter-bin collection. The results were both predictable and unpleasant: a “visibly filthier” city, to use Tisch’s phrase, and an exploding rat problem. The funding and... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
analytical work. I did a piece of research that uncovered or discovered the equivalence to Moore's law from the computer industry in the space industry. And I had full understanding of how Moore's law, 2x performance every two years, had... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
many stocks in a lot of countries and weighting the countries more or less equally. It's simply too difficult to predict which market's going to be down 67 percent and which one's going to be up 102 percent in any given year.” Biggest... View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
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OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
sorts of negative consequences,” Toplansky says. “My point was that this is a critical part of future business strategy.” He described six different business strategies where AI—through predictive analytics... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
anyone access to content; US-based Jupiter, the leading provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk and resilience; and Unifa, which provides AI technology that helps childcare providers track... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
emotions and anger and all those things. And the new brain or the neocortex is the analytical engine, that's the thing that knows what is a cat and how to telephone your mother and how to do a math equation. So, we are really studying the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize data makes me more... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
practice in the use of statistical, accounting, and financial analytic tools. A resident of Westwood, Massachusetts, Hayes sits on four corporate boards, chairs the investment committee at Swarthmore College (his alma mater), and is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance
provide a critical set of analytical and procedural skills." Along with grasping the basics in making a deal — the issues, priorities, similarities, and differences — Valley says it is crucial to consider with whom you are negotiating.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was typical for an HBS Leadership Fellow. The program catapults new grads into high-level positions at nonprofit and public-sector organizations, offering access to CEO-level management and decision-making. Meanwhile, organizations benefit from fresh talent, View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
before we fully locked and loaded the business case. It’s a great example of how we are trying to shift to be customer-focused, take some of the emotion out, and let the analytics help drive it.” “The genius of all-day breakfast,” says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
course there is the obvious upside. As IBM says, such business analytics systems “help cut costs, boost profits, manage risk, and make better predictions about your customers and your market.” One area in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
so what is the mission? What is the tactical plan to get this done? It’s in four phases. The first phase is the analytical phase. This is where we take a blood sample, a muscle biopsy from my brother to dive into the details of what is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce startups—launched Trendalytics, a visual View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
while Khanna was studying emerging markets in the 1990s through applied math and the analytical social sciences. It was Nitin Nohria, before his tenure as Dean, who noticed the overlap and suggested they put their heads together. “When we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
that sold them on Casper—it was the numbers. The company had tested well in a revolutionary predictive model built by the venture firm. The idea to vet possible investments in such a way hit Coats about a decade ago: Maybe, he figured, he... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
divides resources to a process-based perspective focused on ways to link and leverage the individual competencies and capabilities that exist within the organization. And," he concludes, "they need to shift their attention from sophisticated systems that often result... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
business expertise," he notes. "When China opened, we were at the right place and right time to take advantage of that opportunity." Now that Hong Kong is part of China, the relationship between the two is bound to get even closer. Fung View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes