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- 30 Jan 2013
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Why Running a Family Doesn't Help You Run a Business
- 08 Jan 2020
- News
Unpacking Amazon’s Workforce Development Strategy
- June 2008 (Revised February 2011)
- Case
Year Up: A Social Entrepreneur Builds High Performance
By: Allen S Grossman and Naomi Greckol-Herlich
Year Up, a nonprofit job-skills training program for low-income, urban youth has run four successful programs in four cities for the past seven years. Now, after an ambitious capital campaign, the organization is poised to grow into a national program in an attempt to...
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Social Entrepreneurship;
Growth Management;
Quality;
Nonprofit Organizations;
United States
Grossman, Allen S., and Naomi Greckol-Herlich. "Year Up: A Social Entrepreneur Builds High Performance." Harvard Business School Case 308-032, June 2008. (Revised February 2011.)
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Elon Musk Has Big Ideas for Twitter. Users Should Buckle Up.
- 24 Oct 2016
- News
The Table: Closing the Skills Gap
Christopher T. Stanton
Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- Video
2021 Climate Symposium: Climate Trailblazers
- September 2017
- Article
It Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Question-asking Increases Liking
By: K. Huang, M. Yeomans, A.W. Brooks, J. Minson and F. Gino
Conversation is a fundamental human experience, one that is necessary to pursue intrapersonal and interpersonal goals across myriad contexts, relationships, and modes of communication. In the current research, we isolate the role of an understudied conversational...
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Question-asking;
Liking;
Responsiveness;
Conversation;
Natural Language Processing;
Interpersonal Communication;
Behavior
Huang, K., M. Yeomans, A.W. Brooks, J. Minson, and F. Gino. "It Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Question-asking Increases Liking." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 113, no. 3 (September 2017): 430–452.
Mind Your Money
Morgan Housel and Doug Boneparth discuss how yelling "fire" in a crowded Twitter thread can lead to a crisis, why individuals always feel gloomy about their personal finances, and what the layoff wave in tech means for the industry's... View Details
- 09 May 2014
- News
MOOCs’ disruption is only beginning
- 13 May 2011
- News
Rebuilding America's inner cities
- 02 Dec 2005
- News
A New Agenda for Business Schools
- May 2017
- Teaching Note
Promontory, Inc. (Brief Case)
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amy Handlin
Teaching Note for HBS No. 917-535. The Promontory teaching note covers a) how and why buying processes in Promontory’s market generate the array of selling approaches illustrated in the case; b) the impact of incremental sales increases on the firm’s cost structure and...
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- 11 May 2015
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What It Will Take to Fix America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
- 01 Nov 2013
- News
Does Management Really Work?
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
patterns. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53100 June 12, 2017 Harvard Business Review Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here's How to Fix It By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Yuchun Lee Abstract— U.S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 2014
- Case
Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Greta Friar and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa
In 2006, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, was looking for a way to solve Netflix's customer churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings determined that a...
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Keywords:
Crowdsourcing;
Prizes;
Digitization;
Algorithms;
Recommendation Software;
Disruption;
Transformation;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Knowledge Sharing;
Applications and Software;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Lakhani, Karim R., Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Greta Friar, and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa. "Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A)." Harvard Business School Case 615-015, August 2014.
- Career Coach
Deborah Resnick
consultant with McKinsey & Company, former Director of Professional Development for McKinsey's Midwest offices, and a current consultant and facilitator of leadership training at multiple tech companies, Deborah is a calibrated...
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Adaptive Machine Unlearning
By: Varun Gupta, Christopher Jung, Seth Neel, Aaron Roth, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi and Chris Waites
Data deletion algorithms aim to remove the influence of deleted data points from trained models at a cheaper computational cost than fully retraining those models. However, for sequences of deletions, most prior work in the non-convex setting gives valid guarantees...
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Gupta, Varun, Christopher Jung, Seth Neel, Aaron Roth, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi, and Chris Waites. "Adaptive Machine Unlearning." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 34 (2021).
- March 2024
- Case
ixigo
By: Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani
Ixigo is India’s second-largest online travel aggregator (OTA) and the market leader among private train OTAs. It has overcome numerous near-death crises to emerge as a customer-centric, profitable firm. It aspires to become the leading OTA in the next billion Internet...
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