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- 2023
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Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse
By: Martin Pawelczyk, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions in real-world settings, it becomes critical to ensure that individuals who are adversely impacted (e.g., loan denied) by the predictions of these models are provided with a means... View Details
Pawelczyk, Martin, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse." Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2023).
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
findings are particularly relevant at a time when the economy is clouded by recession concerns and companies in industries across the world are searching for ways to instill a... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
caught between worlds and identities—and the ways we must choose to reconcile our past with our present. The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
purchase that would contribute to income rather than simply depreciate with time. A similar argument justified the purchase of a home sewing machine, which reduced average time for making a shirt from fourteen hours to just one. View Details
- July–August 2015
- Article
The Secret of Singapore: Why Cuba Should Look to Lee Kuan Yew's Thriving City-State for Economic Inspiration
By: Debora L. Spar
Between 1965 and 1991, Singapore grew at an astonishing compound annual growth rate of nearly 14%. Critics of the island's performance accused its celebrated leader, Lee Kuan Yew, of thinly veiled tendencies toward communism and authoritarianism; they argued that the... View Details
Keywords: Economic Models; Communism; Economic Policy; Economic Reform; Angel Investors; Authoritarianism; Economic Systems; Economy; Policy; Government and Politics; Singapore; Cuba
Spar, Debora L. "The Secret of Singapore: Why Cuba Should Look to Lee Kuan Yew's Thriving City-State for Economic Inspiration." Foreign Policy 213 (July–August 2015).
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
scar tissue. And I wondered first, what that looked like to you and how you noticed it. And then a little bit about why you think empathy, that characteristic, is so important for leaders. JI: I think empathy is being really able to see View Details
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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
reconstructing a shattered world of meanings for both management scholarship and organizational life. Two distinct aspects of vision characterize the Hawthorne Studies. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
“This was an idea that probably wasn’t going to be well received by the mainstream philanthropy world but had really big potential,” he recalls. A Princeton University study of GiveDirectly’s efforts is an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
for the world to tell you what job you're best suited for? What if you had the answers before you started your career? That's the premise of... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
2020 is this is the time to be creative. What's needed right now? There are things that are standing out that the world or that the economy needs... View Details
- 19 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book
make great progress in society. How can we get started down this path? One way is to introduce progressive ideas and practices that demonstrate to the world we care about more than profits. It's not that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Harvard Business School Campaign: California Regional Events
Lynton (MBA 1987) hosted the Los Angeles Regional Campaign event. An interactive experience was created to help alumni find others in attendance with similar interests. Regional Events Around the View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details
- 01 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Reflections on the Peek Weekend Family Business Cohort
I learned that family businesses across the world typically face similar obstacles, and that even though every situation is unique, there are strategies that are bound to increase View Details
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
world is the very core of nonprofit governance and management. It is for this reason this book starts with a detailed discussion of mission and how it grows. Right behind this are View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
you," she said, urging the importance of "leaning in" to new career challenges. "The world is not going to notice when you take it down." Studies have shown that men are more likely... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
Fracturing, and Our Future (Crown Publishers, 2005), Enriquez looks at the very nature of countries: how they appear and disappear, how they grow and fade. With commentary about culture, politics, and economics around View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
of directors in terms of what should be most important in my life and career. The positive impact they are having across a variety of industries and in their own communities helps guide my personal and professional ambitions.” Repairing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg