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- October 2023
- Teaching Note
Timnit Gebru: 'SILENCED No More' on AI Bias and The Harms of Large Language Models
By: Tsedal Neeley and Tim Englehart
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-085. Dr. Timnit Gebru—a leading artificial intelligence (AI) computer scientist and co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team—was messaging with one of her colleagues when she saw the words: “Did you resign?? Megan sent an email saying that... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Non-Adherence in Health Care: A Positive and Normative Analysis
By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson
Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP, and have proposed a... View Details
Egan, Mark, and Tomas J. Philipson. "Non-Adherence in Health Care: A Positive and Normative Analysis." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20330, July 2014. (Previously titled, "Health Care Adherence and Personalized Medicine.")
- 2010
- Working Paper
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector
This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives
Salter, Malcolm S. "Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-060, December 2010.
- 18 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)
advice for students looking for a career change? Career changes are relatively common and can lead to profound personal and professional growth. They also often come with anxiety and stress, and there are many resources at HBS to help... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
copy of an extensively researched recent book, Power, for All, by Professors Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro. The authors define power as “the ability to influence others’ behavior, be it through persuasion or coercion (through) control over access to resources... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
information right in front of your eyes is not as helpful." Yet hope is not lost. Having identified the pervasive, often harmful effects of this universal error, the researchers' next steps will work toward formulating new methods of View Details
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
(Susan Young/Harvard Business School) “What do you think?” is a question that has graced case method discussions at the Harvard Business School for the past 100 years. The question reflects long-held beliefs by some members of the HBS faculty that an important role for... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
the US Constitution, you need to understand the time period from which it emerged, Moss argues, and the problems and personalities that shaped it. Today’s case protagonist is Founding Father James Madison; the question he faces is the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
20th Century Black and White Papers.” Notes on Photographs. George Eastman House website: http://notesonphotographs.eastmanhouse.org/index.php?title=Messier,_Paul._20th_Century_Black_and_White_Papers . Paul Messier, personal interview,... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
varied. “While diversity is easier to measure quantitatively,” Laurie pointed out, “inclusion metrics are currently qualitative and inconsistent.” Bob put it in personal terms: “I was able to hold myself accountable for diversity results,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
personally was in the field for at least 180 working days during that time and even spent one week at a non-Toyota plant doing assembly work and spent another five months as part of a Toyota team that was trying to teach TPS at a... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
working-class women about diminished possibilities for their husbands and sons to provide for their families. Many supporters’ families work in blue-collar occupations such as construction, transportation, and infrastructure; live in low mobility areas; and have little... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
We can be forgiven, especially this time of year, for questioning a decision our predecessors made just over a century ago. In the 1910s, Americans decided to make personal and corporate income taxes a permanent feature of the United... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
that being personally chosen by a sponsor as a protégé could serve as an important vote of confidence; and two, the idea that sponsors’ compensation being linked to protégé outcomes might serve as further motivation for the protégé. They... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)
my job in finance before HBS, I saw the professional and personal struggles that women, and particularly women of color, face. I’ve strived to help recruit more women into male-dominated places. I am passionate about helping advance... View Details
- 14 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association
my personal Judaism. Victor Kamenker, CFO I joined JSA to meet Jewish classmates and to have a strong sense of community on campus—something I felt that I had been lacking after undergrad. My Judaism is very cultural in nature; my parents... View Details
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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
especially those that may be forgiven upon resumption of employment Personal loans from family or friends Bank loans not certified or verified by MBA Financial Aid Home equity loans or lines of credit Applicants who have previously... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
Life at HBS Chat with the Midwest Student Association
Virtual Life at HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear directly from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Join a panel of students from the Midwest Student Association who will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated their View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
What is HBS START Week?
students’ next two years. We structured START around the three pillars at the foundation of successful student life: (1) personal and (2) professional development and (3) a strong community to facilitate said development. START affords... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
examples the fact that few people pay to have their name not listed in the phone book and the popularity of "free" computers—where consumers get a computer in exchange for giving out personal information, agreeing to view ads,... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young