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Everyone knows that success at work depends on being—and being seen as—both competent and likable. You need people to notice your growth and accomplishments while also enjoying your company. But if you draw attention to the value you’ve created, to ensure that managers... View Details

Keywords: Self-promotion; Success; Behavior

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November 1998 (Revised December 1998)
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Monsanto Company: Delivering on the Vision of Life Sciences

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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26 Feb 2015
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Thinking Like an Entrepreneur: The Science and the Art

10 Aug 2021
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The Science of Sales Conversations with Gong’s Amit Bendov

20 Feb 2017
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MBAs in space: rocket science absorbs business school thinking

Science Magazine Profiles Research on Family Planning and Fertility

Read the full paper: Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: A Study in Zambia

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30 Nov 2012
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HBS Professor Al Roth Named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science

18 Feb 2020
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The Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science Release Census for Open Source Software Security

26 Aug 2020

Joint Degree Series: MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Virtual Event

Join us for a virtual event with program faculty, Admissions staff and current HBS MBA students to learn more about Harvard's new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree. View Details

01 Feb 2002
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As the Future Catches You

Life Science Project at HBS, believes that the future will be defined by the genomic revolution and that world history today is at a fundamental turning point. Combined with advances and developments in other fields, the human experience,... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
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Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart (B)

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler

Supplements the (A) case. In this case, Wehunt and Morse are concerned about the logistic regression model overfitting to the training data, so they explore two methods for reducing the sensitivity of the model to the data by regularizing the coefficients of the... View Details

Keywords: Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Customers; Household; Forecasting and Prediction

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August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
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Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart (A)

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler

This case follows VP of Marketing, Jill Wehunt, and analyst Mark Morse as they tackle a predictive analytics project to increase sales in the Mom & Baby unit of a nationally recognized retailer, PriceMart. Wehunt observed that in the midst of the chaos that surrounded... View Details

Keywords: Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Consumer Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction

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March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
Technical Note

Prediction & Machine Learning

By: Iavor I. Bojinov, Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton

This note provides an introduction to machine learning for an introductory data science course. The note begins with a description of supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. Then, the note provides a brief explanation of the difference between traditional... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Data Science; Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Evaluation

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