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- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
consequences. HBS faculty offer their views on what methods and actions firms can turn to some 54 years after the first Earth Day in 1970. Robert Kaplan: Measure better for a net zero trajectory Despite annual Earth Day celebrations since...
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by Rachel Layne
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
cheaper, simpler, smaller, and more convenient to use. Consider the small off-road motorcycles introduced by Honda in the 1960s, Apple's first personal computer, and Intuit's QuickBooks accounting software. These innovations all initially...
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- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
For more than a century, the long, stately rows of Encyclopædia Britannica have been a fixture on the shelves of many an educated person's home—the smooshed-together diphthong in the first word a symbol of old-world erudition and...
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- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
too narrow, or underconfident. When combining probability forecasts, users need to adjust for those individual tendencies. Measuring accuracy and tracking performance are crucial to improving forecasts. Just as there are different methods...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Perhaps not surprisingly, Oliver “Chip” Brewer III (MBA 1991) found his first job in golf while playing the game with a friend who happened to know the founder of Adams Golf. At the time, Brewer was working...
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Julia Hanna
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
messaging in marketing. Given the hype around AI that has raised everyone’s curiosity, an AI-forward positioning might be an effective strategy to get a first meeting. However, when it comes to actual buying decisions, customers do not...
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by Rocio Wu
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
Intense preparation helped Hillary Clinton command the podium in her first debate with Donald Trump in September 2016—the most-watched presidential debate in US history. In one of the debate’s most memorable moments, Clinton called out...
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by Danielle Kost
- Web
Why Voice Is The Next Disruptive Platform Technology - Forum for Growth
device for help cooking at least once a month (Statista). It is already “good enough.” Smart speaker adoption has grown dramatically since Amazon first introduced Alexa in 2014. At the time the technology felt gimmicky, its primary use...
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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
that’s the process that I went through in the first year or so when I was at HBS. DM: Take me through that process. What did you reflect on and were you surprised by the result? PP: The process starts with really getting in context of...
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Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
outdated or even offensive, while individuals or subjects once thought too unimportant or tangential to mention are now described fully.When describing or cataloging original materials for the first time, staff choose terms and subjects...
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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
such, from the perspective of the trader, the market works much like any other stock exchange. Movies have an initial public offering once the project first takes shape, and traders can buy, sell, cover, and short stocks just as they can...
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- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
targeting efforts. The First Cut Customer attrition is a widespread problem that affects firms in a variety of industries. For example, US credit card providers often deal with annual churn rates of about 20 percent, and mobile phone...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
psychological biases and errors that reduce the accuracy of human perception, sense making, estimation, and attribution.1 These can hinder the human ability to analyze failure effectively. People tend to be more comfortable attending to...
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
one’s pre-tenure years when the opportunity cost of time seems especially high,” he writes. Colleague David A. Moss concurs. “The first priority should always be to identify truly important problems to work on,” says Moss, the Paul Whiton...
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Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment Initiative Careers...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
diaphragm up and down, leading to blurry imaging, but now machines can understand that pattern of breathing and collect the data accordingly to avoid blurring. This results in better image quality and the improved diagnostic accuracy we...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
history of reviews to identify factors considered by reviewers—the accuracy of a reviewer can be determined, for example, by studying how far that person's opinions stray from the long-running average of the restaurants they review. The...
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- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
be less likely to predict that John also enjoys conducting social science research at Harvard. FIVE EXPERIMENTS The researchers conducted five studies to determine when and why people assume that others are incapable of liking dissimilar things. In the View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
being developed by a tiny company in Massachusetts; her investment in Summit Technologies helped the company to become the first FDA-approved LASIK technology provider. Laser eye surgery is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. "When I...
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- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
Monica Mandelli (MBA 1998) There’s no shortage of movies about Wall Street—Trading Places, The Big Short, Wall Street, Boiler Room, Margin Call, Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolf of Wall Street—to name but a few. Of course they portray Hollywood’s version of Wall Street,...
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