Giving and Philanthropy - Publications - Faculty & Research

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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21 Jan 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Going Through the Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker; Health

07 Sep 2021
News

New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

serve as ambassadors and champions of the HBS Fund to the broader alumni community. They will also lead the HBS Fund Council. Formed in 2016, this volunteer advisory group helps to devise new strategies for raising alumni understanding of... View Details

11 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

they are representative. I feel the S&P 500 could have a challenge down the road as an index, in my opinion, that is even more representative of the market and therefore give investors more of an idea of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

26 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

from historically marginalized groups—even when the real goal is to create a more diverse workplace, because it’s both the right thing to do and good for business. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Summer Jackson... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Sep 2016
Blog Post

What Makes the HBS MBA unique?

the core curriculum. Finally, the core curriculum underpins the give and take of the section experience. While someone coming from finance can help a section mate with finance View Details

Blog

What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

taking time to reflect on the reasoning behind your decisions can help you neutralize the influence of such biases. Give sufficient time and feedback. While it's natural to gravitate primarily or exclusively... View Details

Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality

In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details

26 Apr 2022
Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

trust employees in turn induced employees to trust the company more. “To earn trust you have to give trust,” cofounder and co-CEO Dave Gilboa says. “Trust is a two-way street.” Purpose greatly intensified... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

29 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?

obvious to them that we didn't have to give this additional compensation, but that we had chosen to." The gift "signaled that we had done something nice for them which they may want to reciprocate." And they... View Details

Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(7) Gender (129) Genetics (1) Geographic Location (11) Geographic Scope (10) Geography (30) Geopolitical Units (7) Giving and Philanthropy (26) Global Range (8) Global Strategy... View Details

21 Jun 2018
Blog Post

Living in a Dorm at HBS

Living in dormitories isn’t just for undergrads anymore—many HBS students opt to live in them during their two years at business school. There are many advantages to this living setup, including that they come fully furnished, are cleaned regularly, View Details

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Why Your Gift Matters - Alumni

Giving Why Your Gift Matters Giving Why Your Gift Matters Far-Reaching Impact Your support helps HBS prepare leaders to change the world Contributions from alumni and friends... View Details

21 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

(JD/MBA 2021) and Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021), co-presidents of the JD/MBA Association, offer their perspectives on the program and what they have learned about the HLS/HBS joint degree. It’s a four-year... View Details

26 Aug 2024
Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

START and a group of second year (EC) START Ambassadors plan and lead activities throughout the week. TREK: Pack your bags to travel to different parts of the world! HBS Treks are student-organized trips... View Details

30 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

number increased to 4.75 percent. In the match treatment, 4.41 percent chose to donate. And in the overhead-free treatment, a comparatively whopping 8.55 percent gave money to the foundation. There was a substantial difference in total... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

behavioral economists Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, is a way of changing the environment in which decisions are made without meaningfully changing financial incentives. “If you take a particular policy objective as a given, nudges... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
Case

The Carlyle Group

By: Robert G. Eccles and Carin-Isabel Knoop

This case describes the investment philosophy, organizational structure, management processes and culture of the largest private equity firm in the world measured in terms of assets under management ($89 billion). The Carlyle Group is distinctive in several ways,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Assets; Private Equity; Investment; Global Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Information Technology; Asia; Washington (state, US)