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- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
entrepreneurial spirit from my mother.” Amadio became interested in medicine as a boy. He felt a calling to help other people and it led him to pursue a mix of science and computer classes and activities. When he was a teenager, his...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history....
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- Person Page
Media
Media
This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
horizon, implying that growth is less risky than value at long horizons. Investors with access to bills and bonds exhibit similar behavior when value and growth tilts are computed relative to the total equity allocation of the portfolio....
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
in games that require one to resist a selfish impulse for several minutes in order to benefit others. In one condition children make decisions in public view of the group of other participants, while in another they can make decisions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
Sender. She offers the US team's Cup itinerary as an example: It begins with a match in Natal, on the northeast coast, then travels to the Amazonian city of Manaus, before finally heading back to the northeast coast for a game in Recife....
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- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Cenedella tried several other ideas for job-industry companies before he came up with the idea for TheLadders. Michel spent years searching for the right business idea — even helping to start a pharmaceutical industry computer firm —...
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- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
the design choices that might mitigate these biases,” according to the paper. Acquisitions, exclusive deals, and strategy. Economists draw on economic theory and empirical methods to value exclusive deals in gaming platforms; analyze...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inept or complacent management drew the attention of raiders. "I give credit to that 1980s movement as a whole for having created the profit machine that we see in the 1990s," Hayes says. "We now have an M&A; movement driven by strategic considerations, especially in...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500 scene—first growing eBay from a staff...
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- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
and Yelp Review Fraud By: Luca, Michael, and Georgios Zervas Abstract—Review sites have become increasingly important sources of information for consumers. Because these reviews affect sales, businesses have the incentive to game the...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
perfect date into a massive computer, on punch cards. The computer spit out the most compatible pairings. Neither company lasted long, but the computer- assisted dating model they promoted had a lot in common with the early days of the...
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April White
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell Computer in the 1990s. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-063.pdf The Determinants of...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
Ventures, Kleiner-Perkins, and others. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806198 DVD War Harvard Business School Case 706-504 In 2006, the DVD was the most popular storage medium in the entertainment and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Tennessee, on his firm's collaboration with East Tennessee State University, the BlueSky Tennessee Institute, a work-based accelerated computer science bachelor's program based at the insurer's corporate campus. Joe Fuller: The increasing...
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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its trade-off between delay and fairness compares favorably. In our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
example of Jobs and Wozniak at the birth of Apple Computer. “Were they the right guys to create a hand-assembled computer motherboard company in 1976?” he asks rhetorically. Answer: sure. But—were they the right guys to build a major...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
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General Management: Processes and Action
General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,...
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Power and Influence;
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