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  • 2023
  • Article

Experimental Evaluation of Individualized Treatment Rules

By: Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li
The increasing availability of individual-level data has led to numerous applications of individualized (or personalized) treatment rules (ITRs). Policy makers often wish to empirically evaluate ITRs and compare their relative performance before implementing them in a... View Details
Keywords: Causal Inference; Heterogeneous Treatment Effects; Precision Medicine; Uplift Modeling; Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 20 Apr 2017
  • Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Ching Ching Chen On Her Passion For the Music Industry

is the power of music in shaping both people and culture. I am so excited to be working in an industry where the product we create has the ability to uplift and comfort as a universal healer, and unite as a universal language. To top it... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
  • Case

NatureSweet

By: Jose Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across the United States and $329 million in 2016 revenues. CEO Bryant Ambelang treated... View Details
Keywords: NatureSweet; Tomatoes; Agriculture; Greenhouse; Ambelang; Cherry Tomatoes; Incentives; Worker Empowerment; Empowerment; Toyota Production System; Leadership; Branding; Produce; Manufacturing; Organizational Change; Agribusiness; Business Model; Employee Relationship Management; Working Conditions; Organizational Culture; Success; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Mexico; North America
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Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow - 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
  • Web

Three Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - 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
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

experiments, we show that participants rated sharks more negatively and less positively after viewing a 60-second video clip of swimming sharks set to ominous background music, compared to participants who watched the same video clip set to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

investments. Through Solara’s IoT-enabled systems with dynamic pricing, digital payments, and booking features, farmers can operate their own irrigation businesses, serving their non-pump owning neighbors water at rates below current diesel-irrigation prices. Our... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2020
  • News

Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

students and colleagues,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “His research and writings transformed the way aspiring MBAs, industries, and companies look at management. He was a beloved professor and role model whose brilliant teaching and wisdom... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

building and well-being. The fellowship’s unique model provides funding for one graduating student to join an organization dedicated to creating local financial and business opportunities. The RISE Career Fellow selects a company and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 21 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

building and well-being. The fellowship’s unique model provides funding for one graduating student to join an organization dedicated to creating local financial and business opportunities. The RISE Career Fellow selects a company and... View Details
  • Web

Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society

families face barriers beyond their control, preventing them from improving their circumstances. Government policies to address these inequalities have varied widely, from Chile’s Chicago School model to Venezuela’s socialism, but none... View Details
  • 17 Jul 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

laws the government uses to enforce their whims and desires...For Microsoft to treat such a system of non-objective law with disdain ... and contempt ... is a commendable and uplifting act of principle." Questioning whether outside... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

at Collin County Community College before transferring to Cornell University where he majored in policy analysis and was exposed to poverty statistics for the first time. He was moved by them. “The United States puts forward a model for... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

that a church cannot simply be a building in the community. Ministry is serving the needs of others. Allen’s mission is to build community through uplifting people, especially children, the elderly, and those who need love and a little... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Water for Life

has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 22 Nov 2017
  • News

How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team

complex. Which is literally the best training complex in the world. Which we just opened last year. So speaking specifically of Philadelphia, we decided to create an environment that was going to be fun, uplifting and an incredible place... View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

involvement is rooted in the values of Black Psychology, which uplifts the interconnectedness and resilience of people and rejects an individual and deficit approach. Currently, Banks is an Associate Professor in the Department of... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

United States puts forward a model for lifting families out of poverty that relies on exceptionalism,” he said. “And I believe my mother is exceptional, but that approach cannot work for everyone.” Drawn to a career focused on economic... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

operations. Through its financial incentives, personal and professional development initiatives, and worker-appreciation programs, NatureSweet had cultivated a truly unique, uplifting workplace culture in its Mexico operations. Ambelang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

(Diane) Davidson (MBA 1980) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Buddhapada: Following the Buddha's Footprints by Jacques de Guerny (AMP 82, 1979) (Orchid Press) Good from Grief: How to Turn Unimaginable Grief into Something Positive in 288 View Details