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- 2015
- Working Paper
Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda
By: Ricardo Hausmann and Jasmina Chauvin
How can Rwanda, which currently has one of the lowest levels of income and exports per capita in the world, grow and diversify its economy in presence of significant constraints? We analyze Rwanda's historical growth and trade performance and find that Rwanda's high... View Details
Keywords: Export Diversification; Industrialization; Economic Complexity; International Trade; Rwanda; Diversification; Trade; Transportation; Developing Countries and Economies; Rwanda
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Jasmina Chauvin. "Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda." Center for International Development at Harvard University Working Paper, No. 24, April 2015.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Bayesian Ensembles of Binary-Event Forecasts: When Is It Appropriate to Extremize or Anti-Extremize?
By: Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Victor Richmond R. Jose and Robert L. Winkler
Many organizations face critical decisions that rely on forecasts of binary events. In these situations, organizations often gather forecasts from multiple experts or models and average those forecasts to produce a single aggregate forecast. Because the average... View Details
Keywords: Forecast Aggregation; Linear Opinion Pool; Generalized Additive Model; Generalized Linear Model; Stacking.; Forecasting and Prediction
Lichtendahl, Kenneth C., Jr., Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Victor Richmond R. Jose, and Robert L. Winkler. "Bayesian Ensembles of Binary-Event Forecasts: When Is It Appropriate to Extremize or Anti-Extremize?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-041, October 2018.
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
Environmental Justice (EJ): working to combat climate change and promote climate resilience and investing in the green economy in a way that creates good, well-paying jobs, with a focus on combatting... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- News
Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid
The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage
From HBSP: " In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their... View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
that if she lost her job, she couldn't pay her children's school fees or pay for a doctor," says Pomeranz, an assistant professor in entrepreneurial management at Harvard Business School. “How can we understand what projects work... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Jan 2019
- News
Employers Need to Address ‘Caregiving Crisis,’ Study Finds
- 24 Oct 2017
- News
Harvard study: Employers making it harder to hire
- 07 Feb 2020
- News
Women less inclined to self-promote than men, even for a job
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
presentations by faculty, back in 2012, lit a thousand individual lights.” she says. “Now we want to ignite the energy of entire clubs to start doing this View Details
- 01 Aug 2023
- What Do You Think?
As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?
Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Uri Gneezy, Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work (Yale University Press, 2023). Steven Kerr, “On the Folly of Rewarding A While Hoping for B,” Academy of Management Journal,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2022
- News
From Strength to Strength: A Book Launch Event with Arthur C. Brooks
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo
graduating high school next year, and will witness their son receiving his MBA this week. With their sacrifices in mind, Acevedo has steadily invested in creating and giving back to his communities, and... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
Why are people so drawn to social media? The question long haunted Mikolaj "Misiek" Piskorski and eventually led to his new book, A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media. Drawing from years of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic
just returned to the U.S. after a gap between his two years at HBS, during which he launched an e-commerce startup in Indonesia. He made the decision to sell his startup, switching his focus View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal
“You’ve had a part to do with it. It could be that you trusted when you shouldn’t have trusted. You didn’t think about whether the person had high character, was competent and had the authority and therefore shame on you. We don’t like... View Details