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- October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)
By: Willy C. Shih
This case 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 "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the...
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Analytics;
Big Data;
Business Analytics;
Product Development Strategy;
Machine Learning;
Machine Intelligence;
Artificial Intelligence;
Product Development;
AI and Machine Learning;
Information Technology;
Analytics and Data Science;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy C. "Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 616-025, October 2015. (Revised October 2016.)
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
it recalibrated, iteratively creating continuity and restoring order. Daini survived the crisis without an explosion or a meltdown. October 2014 Article The Transparency Trap By: Ethan Bernstein To get people to be more creative and...
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction. However, at a micro level,...
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- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
“Now, brands are working with a lot of influencers, and it’s difficult for them to centralize content. Second, they probably don’t want to centralize content because they actually want to leverage the authenticity and the creativity of...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
Institute of Technology - Bombay Shirish is the co-founder of SquelchAI (Natural Language Processing company focused on enhancing customer experience through AI ) and President of Nanoheal (AI automation software company), where he has...
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- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,...
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- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
makes consumers more willing to pay for safety features." Already during the pandemic, companies have been creative in identifying "low-hanging fruit" that could be quickly implemented in their operations. Grocery stores...
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by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Enterprise Track Runner-Up An AI driven digital platform to help people with chronic pain. CardioPhi Nishu Uppal (MD/MBA 2022), Sajad Mousavi Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite Offering AI-based analysis of cardiac arrhythmias to...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
Illustrations from VectorStock.com The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) aims to supercharge HBS’s research agenda by applying a lab-based model similar to that used by the scientific community for problem solving, which will both complement and...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
retribution. Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future By Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) and Venkat Venkatraman Harvard Business School Press Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
conventional venture capital fund, creates two-thirds of its portfolio startups in-house; the Black List, a highly anticipated annual publication in Hollywood that ranks the year’s unproduced scripts based on nominations from hundreds of film executives in the...
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Himabindu Lakkaraju: Recipient of a 2021 Fairness in AI Grant from the National Science Foundation and Amazon. Himabindu Lakkaraju: Winner of the 2021 Google AI for Social Good Award in the Public Health...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
that they want to invest in for the long term.” “Private equity firms look at water as a critical asset that they want to invest in for the long term.” But the path to further innovations and technology in the water space, says Littlefield, needs some View Details
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
The signature song in the show is “Advertising Ruins Everything”, the tongue and cheek nature of it. This was all on social media, and then coupled with the actual live performance was one of the most interesting and creative strokes of...
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance” with Nicholas Otis, Rowan Clarke, Solène Delecourt, and David Holtz. 2023 Zoe B. Cullen: Recipient of a 2023 National Science Foundation Research Grant ($368,490) for "What's My...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
whole experience was an experiment, says Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration. In designing the Business of AI SIP, Lakhani had as his thought partner HBS executive fellow Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA...
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April White
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
Clubs News Clubs News Demystifying AI at Orange County Leadership Breakfast At its first HBS Leadership Breakfast event since before the pandemic, the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC) tackled the potential of AI with a talk titled The Dawning of Artificial...
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Margie Kelley
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A-Z List of Tools | Information Technology
A-Z List of Tools An alphabetical list Login information may be required to access some links. 3 3Play A Adobe Creative Suite & Components Alumni Portal B Buy-to-Pay C Canvas Case Template Catering Classroom & Conference Room Audiovisual...
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade - Course Catalog
as electricity, nuclear power and computing? What commercial opportunities and risks will they create for business leaders? What ethical choices will they force business leaders to confront? In November 2022, the introduction of ChatGPT brought the potential and power...
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