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- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
boil under the wealth gap heat up or cool down? Will the climate change accord catalyze investment in alternative energy? What impact will international terrorism have on business? Please add your comments below. 10 Most Popular Articles...
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- 20 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
Harvard Business School. People are more likely to recall information over a longer period when it’s wrapped in an anecdote as opposed to statistics, according to the study, “Stories, Statistics and Memory.” Graeber’s research validates...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- June 30, 2020
- Article
Scaling Up Behavioral Science Interventions in Online Education
By: Rene F. Kizilcec, Justin Reich, Michael Yeomans, Christoph Dann, Emma Brunskill, Glenn Lopez, Selen Turkay, Joseph J. Williams and Dustin Tingley
Online education is rapidly expanding in response to rising demand for higher and continuing education, but many online students struggle to achieve their educational goals. Several behavioral science interventions have shown promise in raising student persistence and...
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Online Learning;
Behavioral Interventions;
Scale;
Education;
Online Technology;
Performance Improvement
Kizilcec, Rene F., Justin Reich, Michael Yeomans, Christoph Dann, Emma Brunskill, Glenn Lopez, Selen Turkay, Joseph J. Williams, and Dustin Tingley. "Scaling Up Behavioral Science Interventions in Online Education." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 26 (June 30, 2020).
- 07 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'
Seeking a programming gig? Wear glasses and keep your laptop in frame if you want your profile picture to attract recruiters on hiring platforms. A new study finds freelancers are more likely to land work when they “look the part” for a...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 2023
- Article
Verifiable Feature Attributions: A Bridge between Post Hoc Explainability and Inherent Interpretability
By: Usha Bhalla, Suraj Srinivas and Himabindu Lakkaraju
With the increased deployment of machine learning models in various real-world applications, researchers and practitioners alike have emphasized the need for explanations of model behaviour. To this end, two broad strategies have been outlined in prior literature to...
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Bhalla, Usha, Suraj Srinivas, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Verifiable Feature Attributions: A Bridge between Post Hoc Explainability and Inherent Interpretability." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2023).
- 13 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading
addressing the other is unlikely to lead to sustainable progress.” You Might Also Like: How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap Why Employers Favor Men Feedback or...
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by Kara Baskin
- 17 Jul 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”
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by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin
- 24 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?
examined roughly 1,500 part-time workers who indicated that, if circumstances were different, they would prefer to work more hours. 22 percent of respondents said gaps in resumes prevented them from finding...
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by Kara Baskin
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Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa
By: Debora L. Spar
In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,...
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- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known, however, about the everyday psychological experience and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary individuals. Yet evidence is mounting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2017
- Working Paper
Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies
By: Kris J. Ferreira, Joel Goh and Ehsan Valavi
Problem Definition: Farmers face several challenges in agricultural supply chains in emerging economies that contribute to extreme levels of poverty. One common challenge is that farmers only have access to one channel, often an auction, for which to sell their crops....
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Agricultural Supply Chain;
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Multiple Cahnels;
Walrasian Auction;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Supply Chain;
Distribution Channels;
Profit;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Ferreira, Kris J., Joel Goh, and Ehsan Valavi. "Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-033, October 2017.
- 30 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty
investigated whether this perception is accurate: Are the guilty angrier than the innocent? In other words, is anger a cue of guilt? The answer, as it turns out, is no. To investigate this question, the researchers asked people to recall...
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by Michael Blanding
- 06 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams
screen or the conference call as a theater, says Harvard Business School Professor Leslie Perlow, building on the foundational work of sociologist Erving Goffman. “You’re on the frontstage, and that’s for all the world to see,” she says....
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by Michael Blanding
- 26 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change
naturally solve problems by filling in gaps for situations they’ve never encountered, he says. Consider, for example, a doctor dealing with a disabled elderly patient in an Emergency Room, after just seeing a healthy young patient. Good...
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- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
to fill little gaps in the literature, and I continue to think that was excellent advice.” Just as researchers in the life sciences often target their work to tackle the most dangerous diseases, so argues...
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by Michael Blanding
- 25 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business
otherwise.” Gompers, an All-American runner who graduated from Harvard College in 1986 and held the Harvard record for the 10,000 meter race in track for thirty years, says intercollegiate varsity athletics forges valuable soft skills that help explain the career...
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by Rachel Layne
- 2008
- Book
On Competition
By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it...
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Porter, M. E. On Competition. Updated and Expanded Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
The following articles were the most read pieces on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2012. Now two questions for you. What do you think was the most important business issue of the year? Fiscal cliff? China's slowdown? Also...
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- 05 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It
Workplace surveys consistently show that employees crave better information about how they could improve their performance. But most say they don’t get it. A recent Gallup poll, for example, found only 26 percent of employees strongly believe that the feedback they...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850
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by Geoffrey G. Jones