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  • 2024
  • Case

Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (B)

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
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  • 02 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When Goal Setting Goes Bad

governments create dysfunctional systems that can be predicted to lead to bad behaviors, I see the problem starting with the dysfunctional system. And I see the creating of optimal systems as a key leadership function. Q: Specifically,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

Achieving sustainability—for corporations, investors, analysts, information intermediaries, and other forms of organizations—often requires innovations, both major and minor, in processes, products, and business models in order to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • Web

Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

for every dimension of business performance Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution Empower employees through proprietary frameworks like the Job Design Optimization Tool, which helps design high-performance jobs... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

COVID-19 variants snuffed out the brief period of vaccination-injected optimism earlier this year, as childcare and school disruptions lingered. Despite such resistance and health concerns, some employees have joyfully returned to their... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Time and the Value of Data

By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti

Managers often believe that collecting more data will continually improve the accuracy of their machine learning models. However, we argue in this paper that when data lose relevance over time, it may be optimal to collect a limited amount of recent data instead of... View Details

Keywords: Economics Of AI; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation; Analytics and Data Science; Value
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  • August 2019
  • Article

When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation

By: Yicheng Song, Nachiketa Sahoo and Elie Ofek
Sometimes we desire change, a break from the same or an opportunity to fulfill different aspects of our needs. Noting that consumers seek variety, several approaches have been developed to diversify items recommended by personalized recommender systems. However,... View Details
Keywords: Recommender Systems; Personalization; Recommendation Diversity; Variety Seeking; Collaborative Filtering; Consumer Utility Models; Digital Media; Clickstream Analysis; Learning-to-rank; Consumer Behavior; Media; Customization and Personalization; Strategy; Mathematical Methods
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  • Web

Climate Impact - Business & Environment

tools they need to simplify, accelerate, and optimize the financing of critical climate assets.” Ayr Muir MBA 2004 | Founder & CEO, Clover Food Lab “Meat production and the agriculture industry behind it are the second biggest... View Details
  • 28 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

inclusivity. "If you're running an online marketplace," he says, "you should think about whether discrimination is likely to be a problem, and what design choices might mitigate the risk of discrimination. If you're View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service
  • Web

Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

with health care partners Increase operational efficiencies: Match clinical resources to clinical processes and improve resource utilization Optimize costs over the full cycle of care Manage reimbursement and payment challenges Expand... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler; Banking; Financial Services
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Effects of Inconsistent Work Schedules on Employee Lateness and Absenteeism

By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman
Problem Definition: Employee lateness and absenteeism pose challenges for businesses, particularly in the retail industry, where punctuality is vital for optimal store operations and customer service. This paper relates employee lateness and absenteeism with... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Employees; Human Capital; Retail Industry
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AASU50 - Alumni

50th Anniversary Keynote Speech, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Can AI Combat Biases Against Women and People of Color? (Barry Libert presentation) Entrepreneurial Action & The Case for Optimism (Bill Sahlman presentation) Founders of African... View Details
  • 01 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

an unusual but immensely powerful approach to leadership that held promise far beyond the football field. To optimize performance, many leaders take the team or organization as the basic unit of analysis, seeking out processes and... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

History Matters

today from the Panic of 1907? It demonstrates at least six regularities of financial crises. First, crises tend to afflict vulnerable financial systems. Vulnerability often follows an economic boom, a period of real growth that morphs into excessive View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 04 Dec 2019
  • Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

experiments to optimize customer experience—and their own return on investment. “Very few people know they are participants in this massive experimentation ecosystem,” says Thomke. And it’s not just online. Retailers such as Walmart and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financing Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda
  • 2019
  • Article

Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems

By: Hadi Elzayn, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zachary Schutzman
Settings such as lending and policing can be modeled by a centralized agent allocating a scarce resource (e.g. loans or police officers) amongst several groups, in order to maximize some objective (e.g. loans given that are repaid, or criminals that are apprehended).... View Details
Keywords: Allocation Problems; Algorithms; Fairness; Learning
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Managing Risks Balancing Innovation and Control Featured Exercises Analyze your organization’s approach to managing common organizational tensions Analyze a job using the Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) Identify ways to dial up... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

production is incredibly resource intensive and that even a small shift in consumption and production can have a massive impact on greenhouse gas emissions. From there, Karen Skelton, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy, expressed her... View Details