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- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
Two years after non-fungible tokens (NFTs) captured the attention of artists, celebrities, and brands, debate still rages over their value. But NFTs could be poised to make a comeback in 2024, argues Scott Duke Kominers, the Sarofim-Rock... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
get people who have these intangible social skills. We define them as empathy and persuasion; those are objectively very di cult to measure. That combination, of looking for something that is hard to measure, plus a process that is already inadequate to View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
lesson.” Invest locally: “My State Department job in Africa taught me that small investments informed by local knowledge are more effective than big projects launched in Washington.” Favorite book: William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! “It View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
integration along multiple dimensions,” Edelman says. First focus on clear, narrow goals that are more specific than “boost sales.” Next, consider your methods for collecting data; it should be both broad in terms of the range of data to View Details
- 29 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?
that companies are capturing more data on customers than ever before—recording not only demographic information, but also details on every product purchase they make. "So much attention is being put on retail analytics that it's like... View Details
- Portrait Project
Samrath Oberoi
As a Dhol (drum) player, I was introduced to powerful beats at an early age. Mere training of the beats, though, wasn’t enough. My maturity as an artist came from understanding the artistic meaning behind the white spaces – the moments of silence that define the power... View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
initiative. “That requires a lot of reskilling of employees and hard choices, in an uncertain environment, in terms of how to deploy capital.” “This digital transformation creates new jobs, but, more important, it changes the nature of jobs, even entry-level ones.”... View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
particular area. Her findings, which she presented at a prominent investor conference, captured the imaginations of industry titans and academics. Computer scientists long assumed that AI systems would become more accurate and objective... View Details
- 18 Dec 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality
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Overview
In industries characterized by extreme dynamism, complexity, and uncertainty, formal structure often “falls behind” actual work processes. The nature of work in these environments evolves continuously while formal structure can only do so at specific times in discrete... View Details
- 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
- 17 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do We Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 2024
- Report
The Eco-Digital EraTM: The Dual Transition to a Sustainable and Digital Economy
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Andy Feinstein, Amol Khadikar, Jiani Zhang, Noémie Lauer, Hiral Shah, Sally Epstein, Jerome Buvat and Vaishnavee Ananth
Since the proliferation of smartphones and social media in the late 2000s, digital has captured an increasingly large portion of the economy. In this Capgemini Research Institute report, The Eco-Digital EraTM: The dual transition to a sustainable and... View Details
Srinivasan, Suraj, Andy Feinstein, Amol Khadikar, Jiani Zhang, Noémie Lauer, Hiral Shah, Sally Epstein, Jerome Buvat, and Vaishnavee Ananth. "The Eco-Digital EraTM: The Dual Transition to a Sustainable and Digital Economy." Report, Capgemini Research Institute, January 2024.
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Eliminating Unintended Bias in Personalized Policies Using Bias-Eliminating Adapted Trees (BEAT)
By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
An inherent risk of algorithmic personalization is disproportionate targeting of individuals from certain groups (or demographic characteristics such as gender or race), even when the decision maker does not intend to discriminate based on those “protected”... View Details
Keywords: Algorithm Bias; Personalization; Targeting; Generalized Random Forests (GRF); Discrimination; Customization and Personalization; Decision Making; Fairness; Mathematical Methods
Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Eliminating Unintended Bias in Personalized Policies Using Bias-Eliminating Adapted Trees (BEAT)." e2115126119. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 11 (March 8, 2022).
Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets
Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
created at a lower cost or effort compared to what is delivered by traditional businesses. For those companies, the only solutions are to either recouple activities or rebalance to create and capture value (i.e., revenues) from both... View Details
- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
not asking those executives to provide objective information about their own organizations or specific numbers; rather, we simply wanted to capture where the industry feels most optimistic and pessimistic about delivering value,"... View Details
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
inequality over time, researchers often use the Gini coefficient to capture the concentration of income in geographic locations. And in many cases, the Gini coefficient is a useful metric that accommodates such comparisons. However, the... View Details
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
prom queen means capturing your special aura by explaining where you have come from and where you are going to guide other people to understand your value. And that value doesn’t have to be the same as everyone else’s. In meetings with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman