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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things....
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
419-039 Note on Managing Workforce Reductions Each individual who enters an organization will, at some point, leave. And yet most future leaders spend significantly more effort learning about recruiting than departures, despite the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
the five tenets of the mission at the Smithsonian's NMNH is to be a catalyst for the use of object-based science education in the K-12 school system. With a large education department that relies on close to four hundred volunteer docents, the NMNH runs four hands-on...
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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
writing some 75 comments have been submitted. Finally, I thought you would be interested in learning the most popular WK articles since we set up shop. You can see the results here. Thank you to our more than 2 million annual visitors who...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
theory, happen to also tell her how unlikely her theory is. We investigate which combinations of errors, situations, and preferences tend to induce such incidental learning vs. factors that render erroneous beliefs stable. We show, for...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
superpower come toward your actual meaningful work, the things that you’re doing to learn from the data, seems significant. Do you also anticipate that level of improvement in the productivity of the work itself?Spataro: We do. I noted...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt rule that limits the maximum amount of debt is analyzed and compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not perform well, the debt rule...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
significant role. An experiment compared a condition where participants sequentially predicted the colored outcomes of a virtual roulette wheel spin with a condition where the wheel's past outcomes were presented all at once. In a third...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15602 PublicationsSeven Lessons for Leading in Crisis Author:Bill George Publication:Warren Bennis Series. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2009 Abstract Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis outlines the seven critical lessons leaders...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to teach girls to code.” How do we teach them? Do we teach them in school? Do we teach them outside of school? What’s the number that you teach? Where do we teach them? So it became clear that to introduce computer science as a topic that every girl should View Details
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systems globally. Innovating in Health Care (IHC) enables students to: Identify the one primary purpose of the innovation—technology-commercializing, consumer-facing, or cost-controlling. Learn the differing organizational, financing,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Silas on rewiring HR for a remote-first e-commerce company How do you re-engineer the people function to support a post-Covid virtual organization? Shopify’s CHRO explains. Bill Kerr: For many businesses, the post-Covid “new normal”...
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- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
sit-at-the-desk jobs where the hours matter, but an increasing number of jobs are run by self-managed work teams, in essence, where employees join virtual teams working from anywhere. IBM has done surveys that show that on any given day...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
The Pressure Drop anchored above the Mariana Trench in May. (photo by Tamara Stubbs) A potentially new species of sea squirt discovered in the Indian Ocean’s Java Trench in April (courtesy Five Deeps Expedition) Victor Vescovo has always been an adventurer. He View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
crucial decision, he saw it through, even when virtually everything around him seemed stacked against such a commitment. This adherence was not the result of stubbornness or self-righteousness. Rather, it came from the care that Lincoln...
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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
would any of you like to test it? And we’ll literally have hundreds of thousands of people that will raise their hand and volunteer to be our virtual QA team. And what that means is that when we get ready to roll a feature out to our...
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- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-081.pdf Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration Authors:Daiji Kawaguchi and Soohyung Lee Abstract Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
compensation. We would note similar problems if we were to look at auditors, at investment analysts, at rating agencies, at virtually every aspect of the governance system in our economy. It's not true of every one of every kind of...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on HBS graduates decades after...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
learned some unexpected—and unwelcome—lessons about the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the process of fundraising for the company. “It honestly never occurred to me that I was having a different professional experience than my colleagues...
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