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Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults
By: Arthur Kleinman, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu and Fawwaz Habbal
Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era. It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty. How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Age;
Service Delivery;
Information Technology;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Kleinman, Arthur, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu, and Fawwaz Habbal. "Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults." Art. 729149. Frontiers in Public Health 9 (2021).
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Accuracy First: Selecting a Differential Privacy Level for Accuracy-Constrained ERM
By: Katrina Ligett, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, Bo Waggoner and Steven Wu
Traditional approaches to differential privacy assume a fixed privacy requirement ϵ for a computation, and attempt to maximize the accuracy of the computation subject to the privacy constraint. As differential privacy is increasingly deployed in practical settings, it...
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Ligett, Katrina, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, Bo Waggoner, and Steven Wu. "Accuracy First: Selecting a Differential Privacy Level for Accuracy-Constrained ERM." Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality 9, no. 2 (2019).
- 2018
- Working Paper
Detecting Anomalies: The Relevance and Power of Standard Asset Pricing Tests
By: Malcolm Baker, Patrick Luo and Ryan Taliaferro
The two standard approaches for identifying capital market anomalies are cross-sectional coefficient tests, in the spirit of Fama and MacBeth (1973), and time-series intercept tests, in the spirit of Jensen (1968). A new signal can pass the first test, which we label a...
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Investment Management;
Anomalies;
Portfolio Construction;
Transaction Costs;
Investment;
Management;
Asset Pricing;
Market Transactions;
Cost
Baker, Malcolm, Patrick Luo, and Ryan Taliaferro. "Detecting Anomalies: The Relevance and Power of Standard Asset Pricing Tests." Working Paper, July 2018.
- January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth
By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s...
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Organic Growth;
Organizational Change;
M&A;
Mergers And Acquisitions;
Divestment;
Business Ventures;
Business Divisions;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Restructuring;
Change;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Transition;
Engineering;
Chemicals;
Mining;
Ethics;
Values and Beliefs;
Finance;
Capital Markets;
Financial Markets;
Food;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Health;
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History;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
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Leading Change;
Management;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
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Organizations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Ownership;
Public Ownership;
Performance;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Consolidation;
Corporate Strategy;
Value;
Value Creation;
Biotechnology Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Mining Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Europe;
Netherlands
George, William W., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Amram Migdal. "Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth." Harvard Business School Case 317-063, January 2017. (Revised March 2017.)
- November 2014
- Case
Nestlé SA, 2014
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2014, Nestlé was the largest producer of packaged foods and beverages in the world. 2013 revenues were $103.7 billion and operating profits $16.1 billion (15.5% of sales). The company owned 29 mega brands, each generating more than Euro 1 billion ($1.25 billion)....
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- January 2008
- Article
Where Will We Find Tomorrow's Leaders?
By: Linda A. Hill
Unless we challenge long-held assumptions about how business leaders are supposed to act and where they're supposed to come from, many people who could become effective global leaders will remain invisible, warns Harvard Business School professor Hill. Instead of...
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Talent and Talent Management;
Globalization;
Innovation Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Situation or Environment;
Personal Characteristics
Hill, Linda A. "Where Will We Find Tomorrow's Leaders?" Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008): 123–129. (Interview.)
- 13 Mar 2019
- HBS Seminar
Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business
Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem
Combining machine learning with econometric analysis is becoming increasingly prevalent in both research and practice. A common empirical strategy involves the application of predictive modeling techniques to "mine" variables of interest from available data,...
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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in...
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- 02 Jun 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?
sustainable without a framework of cultural values and rules." Drew Williamson pictured the relationship as "a virtuous circle that can break at any of the three points. It starts with a happy, innovative culture that generates...
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by Jim Heskett
- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
‘bloom,’ which consumers generally considered as a sign of good, fresh meat. But this ‘fresh’ red color did not actually indicate that the meat was the ‘freshest’ in terms of the time it was exposed to the air. Since meats were perishable...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
emissions are produced by the industry, and the amount of textile waste generated each year could fill 20,000 football stadiums, Theuerkauf explains, adding that, “even in 2022, excess inventory is still put in landfills and burned.” To...
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April White
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HBS - The year in Review
MBA students—reflecting a generous deferral and leave policy—enrolled. Doctoral classes were held entirely online. Health & Well-Being on Campus Throughout the year, students, faculty, and staff participated in regular COVID testing...
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- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
own ideas about what is important, and if your ideas deviate from theirs, you risk being ignored or even ostracized. The researchers pointed out that nonprofit organizations often become more agile and effective once the founder is succeeded. Problem diagnosis....
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by Manda Salls
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
a percentage of the revenue they generate by platforms, as J. K. Rowling was with the Harry Potter series, which made her a multimillionaire. In China, some authors have become wealthy under revenue-sharing models on platforms, but the...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
Selling is changing, but broad generalizations and false dichotomies about ecommerce, big data, and other trends—hallmarks of current sales advice—are keeping business leaders from making sound decisions, says Frank Cespedes, author of a...
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
but is part of another world in socioeconomic terms. Having traded in his power lunches for cafeteria duty, Pechter was in for another revelation. “I wasn’t prepared for the leadership of a fantastic principal, the commitment of the faculty, the dedication of the...
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Growing on the Job - Alumni
growth needs, you have important choices to make regarding your goals. Typically, these are: Improved performance in specific skill areas; General expansion of skills, including the development of new ones, which can contribute to your...
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
using the concept of elasticity. Highlights The Price is Right Price Setting and the Concept of Elasticity Elasticity as a General Concept Show Hide Details Concepts Willingness to Pay A Different Visual Representation of WTP Elasticity...
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- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar