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    The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

    What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.

    Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
    • 2019
    • Article

    An Empirical Study of Rich Subgroup Fairness for Machine Learning

    By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
    Kearns et al. [2018] recently proposed a notion of rich subgroup fairness intended to bridge the gap between statistical and individual notions of fairness. Rich subgroup fairness picks a statistical fairness constraint (say, equalizing false positive rates across... View Details
    Keywords: Machine Learning; Fairness; AI and Machine Learning
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    • September – October 2011
    • Article

    The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times

    By: Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik and Ananth Raman
    It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream parties in a supply chain is desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry
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    • 30 May 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving

    Keywords: by Michael Sanders, Sarah Smith & Michael I. Norton
    • 02 May 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth

    Keywords: by Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom & William Kerr
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions

    By: Robert C. Merton and Richard T. Thakor
    This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of a no-fault-default debt structure as an alternative to the typical bankruptcy process. We show that the deadweight costs of bankruptcy can be avoided or substantially reduced through no-fault-default debt, which permits a... View Details
    Keywords: No-fault Default; Chapter 11; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Institutions; Contracts
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    • Working Paper

    Covenant-Light Contracts and Creditor Coordination

    By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
    In 2015, 70% of newly issued leveraged loans had weaker enforcement features, called covenant-light or "cov-lite"; this is nearly a three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to... View Details
    Keywords: Credit Cycles; Loan Contracts; Debt Covenants; Contracts; Financing and Loans; Credit; Borrowing and Debt
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    • 12 Apr 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

    thanks to technological advances like internet connectivity, mobile devices, and software. Autonomy is a much-touted benefit at many organizations, and it’s nice to believe that we each know the best path to our own optimal productivity.... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • Web

    My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
    • 01 Feb 2001
    • News

    What Makes a Good Leader

    responsibility. A setback like that could have been paralyzing, but he was able to move forward to lead his country to victory in World War II." The lesson, says Nohria, is that Churchill and other great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but... View Details
    Keywords: Management
    • 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
    • 04 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

    organization or in a decision-making role,” Chang says, “you can have optimism that any progress you made will probably persist beyond your tenure.” You Might Also Like: Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    a result, gave Foody optimism about the commercial prospects of the technology. Foody believed the technology had the carbon savings, cost effectiveness, and scalability needed to decarbonize several hard to abate sectors. Nevertheless,... View Details
    • 07 Nov 2023
    • News

    Love and Money

    optimizing and trying to buy the best, can often miss out on what actually is going to make them happy. JF: Do people manage to close that gap? What does that work look like? RG: Often it's just something that never occurred to them. They... View Details
    • 29 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

    companies, however, struggle to find the optimal balance. While Farronato’s research shows that producing fewer items allows retailers to charge more for them, if companies produce too few, they also risk losing out on additional sales.... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
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    Reflections on My First Semester Teaching at HBS - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Game On

    It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
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    1.2 MBA Honor Code - MBA

    honor of their students. Act as stewards of the Honor Code in upholding its spirit and letter, while encouraging others to do so as well. Additionally, while the faculty alone has the right and obligation to set academic requirements, students and faculty will work... View Details
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    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    retailer; the same category may be a canary category at one retailer and a destination category at a competing retailer. Keywords: Churn ; Churn Management ; Churn/retention ; Assortment Planning ; Retail ; Retailing ; Retailing Industry ; Preference Heterogeneity ;... View Details
    • 06 Jul 2023
    • News

    Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at Major League Baseball, he... View Details