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25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Health Care Club, Co-President, PRIDE Club, Soccer Club, Tech Club, Management Consulting Club Christina Byrd “While working on cross-functional and strategic initiatives at Uber,” says Christina, “I realized how important it was to speak the language of any role in... View Details

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Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research

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November 2023
Case

Team Liquid: Fueling the Business of Fandom

By: Youngme Moon and Kerry Herman

In 2023, the co-CEOs of Team Liquid, one of the world's most prominent Esports organizations, are deciding whether and how to evolve their business model to include (1) a greater focus on enterprise revenue; and (2) more direct-to-consumer activity. Team Liquid has one... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Customer Focus and Relationships; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Revenue; Organizational Culture; Business and Community Relations; Video Game Industry

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

April 2025. Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact By: Lauren Cohen , Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal April 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief View Details

20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

leadership; ways the School can promote stronger, and more scalable, community building amongst its alumni in the future; and the implications of Generative AI for academia. The audience questions spanned several topics, including the... View Details

26 Apr 2022
Book

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

founders “had no hierarchy between themselves, committed to consensus-based decision-making and agreed that clear communication should be a core value of their start-up, going as far as to conduct regular 360-degree reviews of one... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

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Case Services - Faculty & Research

newsletter to faculty. The HBS Directors of Research is a body comprised of HBS faculty who are responsible for the research policies of the School. Case Services communicates those policies to case writers and provides support to the... View Details

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

two-thirds of our innovation skills still come through learning—from first understanding the skill, then practicing it, and ultimately gaining confidence in our capacity to create. This is one reason that individuals who grow up in societies that promote View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

06 Sep 2022
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Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

and quality of work product—the hybrid group members outranked their peers. “The new working paper may be the first to generate data on the impact of hybrid work schedules on enterprise communication patterns and work quality.” Hybrid... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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Student Research - Doctoral

gifts? Donations to 501(c)(3)'s are increasingly given unrestricted due to concerns that restrictions on use unduly constrain nonprofits. I study the effect of such funding on recipients using a $5B sample of MacKenzie Scott's gifts... 2025 Article Nature View Details

17 Dec 2020
News

Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta

community, both in Boston and in Tokyo. We hold several events every year to encourage young people from diverse backgrounds to apply to the MBA and executive programs at HBS. Also, we hold events in Japan to send positive messages to the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Katie Sadler

art scene. Above all, the community is unparalleled; I still go back to my high school, Forest Hills Northern, to visit my old teachers. What has changed about your understanding of leadership? While it’s important to have an opinion,... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Enterprise Track, 2024 New Venture Competition video Play Video duration: 1:32 2024 New Venture Competition Runner-Up, Social Enterprise Track: Trans Health HQ Trans Health HQ is a tool built by the trans community that addresses... View Details

22 Jan 2007
Working Paper Summaries

“Don’ts" and "Do’s”: Insights from Experience in Mitigating Risks of Western Investors in Post-Communist Countries

Keywords: by Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos & Paul R. Lawrence

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My research is at the intersection of organizational strategy, global sustainability governance, and social change. It explores the diffusion of sustainability standards to non-traditional sectors (e.g. jewelry, cannabis, plastics, pets) and the relationship between... View Details

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Railroads and the Making of Modern China

My current book project is entitled Railroads and the Making of the Modern China and explores China’s economic and socio-political transformation from the last decades of the empire to the present using railroad infrastructure as a focus. Based on a large... View Details

2023
Working Paper

Feature Importance Disparities for Data Bias Investigations

By: Peter W. Chang, Leor Fishman and Seth Neel

It is widely held that one cause of downstream bias in classifiers is bias present in the training data. Rectifying such biases may involve context-dependent interventions such as training separate models on subgroups, removing features with bias in the collection... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Prejudice and Bias

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June 2023
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When Does Uncertainty Matter? Understanding the Impact of Predictive Uncertainty in ML Assisted Decision Making

By: Sean McGrath, Parth Mehta, Alexandra Zytek, Isaac Lage and Himabindu Lakkaraju

As machine learning (ML) models are increasingly being employed to assist human decision makers, it becomes critical to provide these decision makers with relevant inputs which can help them decide if and how to incorporate model predictions into their decision... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Making

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2022
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Indonesia and the Third Indochina War: The End of Containment

By: Mattias Fibiger

The Third Indochina War called forth dramatic changes in the international relations of Southeast Asia. Foremost among these changes was a shift in the geopolitical orientation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The organization’s founders... View Details

Keywords: Cold War; War; National Security; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; China

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September 2022 (Revised August 2023)
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Audrey Tang: Using Technology to Strengthen Democracy in Taiwan

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

Since the early days of the internet, Taiwan had a vibrant community of civic hackers and open-source programmers who engaged with social issues. Audrey Tang was one of them. She spearheaded the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan, where protestors peacefully... View Details