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- August 2019
- Article
When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation
By: Yicheng Song, Nachiketa Sahoo and Elie Ofek
Sometimes we desire change, a break from the same or an opportunity to fulfill different aspects of our needs. Noting that consumers seek variety, several approaches have been developed to diversify items recommended by personalized recommender systems. However,...
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Recommender Systems;
Personalization;
Recommendation Diversity;
Variety Seeking;
Collaborative Filtering;
Consumer Utility Models;
Digital Media;
Clickstream Analysis;
Learning-to-rank;
Consumer Behavior;
Media;
Customization and Personalization;
Strategy;
Mathematical Methods
Song, Yicheng, Nachiketa Sahoo, and Elie Ofek. "When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation." Management Science 65, no. 8 (August 2019): 3737–3757.
- 16 May 2013
- HBS Seminar
Robert Gierkink, Chairman, Datalogix
- Web
Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online
safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website or Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Do not share your password...
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- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
work, and resistant employers may have to compromise on this dimension even more if retention becomes harder. In addition, without the threat of a non-compete to curtail more entrepreneurial and innovative employees from starting their...
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- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
its hourly wages and offering signing and retention bonuses. The company also started to rethink the jobs themselves. “If you can't find people to recruit because they don’t care for the job, another tactic is to modify the job, so they...
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by Pamela Reynolds
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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA
cross-training, and optimal store layouts—freed up employees to create a better service experience for customers. This led to increased profits, a re-investment in their workers, and higher employee retention when compared to competitors....
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Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces
Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details
The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million
The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change
practices to reinforce inequalities, not only in society, but right here in our company? This is often a challenging step for leaders. If you’re not using scorecards, dashboards or some other measurement system to analyze how everyone’s doing with hiring, promotions,...
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How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting
collaboration, along with employee retention and growth, are the true goals. To achieve these ends, leaders must create work environments where employees truly feel comfortable being themselves, and know that they can and should call out...
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- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
Science Quarterly, a research team finds that shifting the focus to an employee's personal identity leads to an increase in both employee retention and customer satisfaction. "Organizations will talk about recruiting from outside the...
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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports)
on Using Refinitiv Workspace: Retention of reports: To comply...
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- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,...
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by Rachel Layne
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Consumer Information - MBA
of Attendance Leaves of Absence & Withdrawals Satisfactory Academic Progress MBA Degree Requirements Support for Students with Disabilities Career and Professional Development Drug and Alcohol Prevention Retention and Graduation Rates...
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- 16 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta
on employee engagement data, Bastian could see that while talent retention was high at Delta, too many frontline employees felt stuck and unable to gain opportunities to advance professionally at Delta. Despite their best efforts to...
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- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
opportunities to learn how the organization could do its core work better. Monitor and recalibrate their development efforts. Businesses track indicators of whether people are thriving—like promotion and retention rates and employees’...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
retention issue for employers.” Employers are responding. Bank of America has expanded its mental health benefits to include free access to virtual behavioral health professionals; 24/7 confidential counseling sessions for workers and...
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- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
Leonard M. Miller University Professor and former dean of the University of Miami Herbert Business School. You Might Also Like: Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage Employee Feedback: The Key to View Details
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by John Quelch
- 27 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards
daycare for a child, or maybe they have another job because you only employ them part-time to avoid paying for healthcare benefits." You Might Also Like: Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation Your Best...
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- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
Any discussion of the future of retail—or how we work—has to include Walmart. As of 2017, 90 percent of the US population lived within 10 miles of a Walmart store; with 11,766 locations worldwide and $514 billion in annual revenues, the discount store also has the...
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