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- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
this new market and product category to take off, but if they become the cognitive referent, they get an unequal share of the gains from doing so.” Is there a roadmap or strategy that firms can follow to gain cognitive referent status? Even View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
office here in New York City. I’d go into schools, and I’d go into their robotics classes and their computer science classes. I would just see lines and lines and lines of boys. I remember thinking, “Where are the girls?” I knew that...
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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
hair salon, a donut shop, and a hip burger restaurant, and students worked in small teams on problems such as marketing, finance, sales, and growth strategy. Making Robotics Fly HUBweek, a civic collaboration founded by The Boston Globe,...
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
aspiring to become leaders adept at navigating and leveraging diverse business landscapes for societal and economic benefit. Educational Objectives From cutting-edge robotics to technological art, from big data to nano-devices, Japan has...
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- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
minutes. This was not to say that it was better than the warfighters or would replace their jobs, but it was evidence that autonomous robots deployed in this fashion could keep up with the pace of operators, serve as a force multiplier,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
economy running at near peak efficiency because of the factors you mention? ... A new economy would have new governing rules, but I don’t see new rules taking hold today. Now, having a factory full of AI machines that learn and robot...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
1980s, under the leadership of Roger Smith, GM tried to transform itself into the "21st Century Corporation." 74 The plan was to revamp all of the assembly plants and replace workers with robots and other forms of...
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- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
occupations—management, medicine, law enforcement, and addiction counseling—and noticed three surprising patterns that cut across all four occupations. First, in contrast to the stereotypical image of an emotionally numb performer callously or View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
introduction of robots in place of workers, garnering the interest of academic economists, businesses and policymakers. Another contention was whether declining productivity was the result of secular stagnation, a more permanent economic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Pittsburgh had a second act (or third, counting the city's reversal from untenable air and water pollution levels in the 1940s). Pittsburgh's recovery offers a potential model for Detroit. It went on to become a technology hub, anchored in the computer science and...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
and other medical supplies for New Hampshire health care workers and then worked with FedEx and the State to get them delivered. “Dean Kamen is the hero today,” Senator Jeanne Shaneen told the New Hampshire Union Leader. Cobalt Robotics...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
patterns of bias? Or will job seekers use generative AI to get past robotic gatekeepers? Will HR functions flourish or disappear? But the debate over the use of AI in hiring obscures the extent to which the technology is already being...
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- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
his firm had a large investment in FANUC Corporation, a leading producer of industrial robots and software for machine tools. Loeb was demanding that the Japanese firm change its financial and governance policies (e.g., distribute more...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
learn advanced manufacturing given the advent of more robotics in the manufacturing environment, or to learn sales and break into, say, tech sales. These are many different pathways that our employers have been talking about for years and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
discrimination by casting a wider net—has excluded many qualified workers. In fact, it's not hard to trigger a robotic rejection. It could be gaps in the resume for caregiving or a spouse's work move, underemployment, a history of...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
works. The book is available at no cost to climate outreach and education organizations. Unfettered Journey By Gary F. Bengier (MBA 1981) Chiliagon Press Unfettered Journey is the story of Joe Denkensmith, an AI scientist who seeks to create true View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
metal-stamping machine is set up and the press is running, a single worker can operate two or three presses. “In fact,” says Chirchirillo, “our McHenry plant produces parts for a lower per-piece price than the high-quality Chinese factories can.” CGM recently purchased...
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Print View - Course Catalog
invaluable for students aspiring to become leaders adept at navigating and leveraging diverse business landscapes for societal and economic benefit. Educational Objectives From cutting-edge robotics to technological art, from big data to...
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