Happy End Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

intermediate fix—even more pressing. “An open problem is whether you can train a generative AI model from scratch on your own data, preserve privacy, and still have good utility,” says Neel. Differential privacy—the practice of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

27 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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Skydeck - Alumni

Hotel Scarface , and the lasting allure of 1980s Miami Living the Quantitative Life What Paul Grana (MBA 2009) has learned from eight years of personal data tracking Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation Author and former Walmart executive... View Details

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Japan - Global

an in-person event featuring Professor Charles Wang in August. Professor Wang led a discussion about the merits and problems associated with stock buybacks. He presented the latest research insights on these payouts and explored their... View Details

May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Benetton Group S.p.A., 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

On May 31, 2012, after 36 years on the Milan Stock Exchange, Benetton was officially delisted and taken private by Edizione, the Benetton family's holding company. Since 2000, Benetton shareholders had seen its market value fall from $4.3 billion to $720 million at the... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Fashion; Retail; Privatization; Family Ownership; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Globalized Firms and Management; Change Management; Restructuring; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Italy

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01 Mar 2024
News

In My Humble Opinion: Role Model

One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; acting; theater; diversity; career path; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

anti-trust immunity. Capitalism is not a natural system and it did not emerge or spread by an unguided process like biological evolution; it has only existed since the liberation of the markets for land, labor, and capital, i.e., the end... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

working with startups and chemical companies. But they also acknowledge that, while the company is a trailblazer in the space, this problem is a global one and requires a solution involving all relevant stakeholders. Finally, we were... View Details

02 Nov 2023
News

Seeding Startups

readily admits now, was the extensive research necessary to validate his idea. He quickly discovered that the demand simply wasn’t there. “We were too early,” he says. The story of TeamOn Systems, the email-technology company Nadkarni founded in 1999, has a View Details

Keywords: April White

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

20 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

group of people around a mutual desire for change. “Effective agitators are able to draw attention to a problem and convince others that it requires both some corrective action and collective work to bring it about,” Battilana writes in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

entrepreneurship research while contributing to the literatures on innovation and competition through networks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46977 Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1999 (Revised April 2000)
Case

drugstore.com

By: Richard L. Nolan

On a clear day in August 1999 in the new headquarters of drugstore.com, against a backdrop of the Blue Angels flying in formation over Lake Washington practicing for their hydroplane Seafare Cup performance, Peter Neupert was pleased with his company's IPO performance.... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Retail Industry

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03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

a second-hand truck for $120. This purchase set McLean on his lifelong career in the transportation industry. McLean soon began hauling dirt, produce, and other odds and ends for the farming community in Maxton, where reliable... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

09 Nov 2023
News

From the Brink

and that gave us a lot of credibility in the court with stakeholders. That’s helped me at HBS a lot. If I’m going to say something, I’d better be prepared and know the numbers.” All three alumni say it would have been nice if PROMESA and the successful debt... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

Established companies historically have struggled when trying to create new markets. Success seems fleeting and unpredictable. Recent research indicates these problems are systemic. Most companies that are started fail. Of those that... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

12 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

United States. But appearances can be deceiving. What may look to more casual observers like the end of globalization—or, at least, a major step back—is anything but, suggests a new working paper. Call it instead the “great reallocation,”... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

07 Mar 2023
HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

AI system contain bias, she contended, the outputs will contain the same bias, a problem that multiplies as the size of the dataset grows. In 2020, Gebru and Emily Bender, a linguistics professor at the University of Washington, led the... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

can study happiness and read statistics about what percentage of people say they're happy, but that's not what this is about,” Singer shared. “With these amazing video case studies, you can see somebody with your exact View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

when finance becomes a common language Happy Returns HBS celebrates reunions on a grand scale Complete Table of Contents June 2022 Alumni Achievement Awards 2022 This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor demonstrate how family,... View Details

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