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  • 18 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

into the SIP with an open mind as to what I would get out of it; if nothing else, I was excited to start growing a community of folks who had similar interests to me at HBS. However, the SIP far exceeded my expectations. Rather than having a prescriptive agenda for... View Details
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Public Education Leadership Project

with other administrators and educators from across the country, your team of eight leaders from your district will refine your management model, develop new improvement strategies, and View Details
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Research - Private Capital Project

defined contribution (DC) pension funds' capital flows sensitive to performance? We examine pressures from individual account holders who can switch their pension managers. Using novel data on retirement accounts for nearly 10 million... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2023
  • Blog Post

Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience

importance of building a strong network and seizing opportunities to connect with and learn from others. Each one of my program peers – most of whom I aspire to be lifelong friends with – I believe, will go... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

it is important to consider the context and development life cycle of an idea when collecting data or running an experiment—what have we really learned from this experience. —Amy Lieb (MBA 2001) Back to top... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • February 2015 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

AltSchool: School Reimagined

By: John J-H Kim, Kyla Wilkes and Christine S. An
Max Ventilla and his team launches in 2013 AltSchool, a new network of tech-savvy independent K-8 "micro-schools." AltSchool is born out of Ventilla's frustration with the education options available for his young daughter. During his search, Ventilla comes to the... View Details
Keywords: Education Technology; School Models; Product Development; Entrepreneurship; Talent Development And Retention; Social Impact Investment; Information Technology; Business Model; Education; Business Startups; Customization and Personalization; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; United States
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    A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

    We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing... View Details
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    Our Values | About

    alumni—is complete, we then will develop an action plan outlining specific steps we might take to address antisemitism at the School. The lessons we learn from this effort will help us examine other hidden... View Details
    • 25 Mar 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

    expert to her team, and started hiring staff from nail salons and department-store cosmetics counters. "It feels really good to have something you worked so hard for come to reality," she almost bubbled. Still to come were the... View Details
    Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Blog Post

    Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

    that personally inspired me.” To make this career transition, Leahy made the move from New York back to her home state of Massachusetts to attend Harvard Business School. “HBS opened up my global perspective,” said Leahy. “It allowed me... View Details
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    Nonprofit Board Service - Alumni

    Resources HBS OnBoard is a program from the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative designed to inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards. Program sessions focus on the leadership skills needed for the evolving role of modern... View Details
    • 28 Nov 2018
    • HBS Case

    On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

    knew from previous experience leading data science at Gap Inc. that consumers get frustrated with slow mobile apps. To him, the most important engineering requirement was providing users with a response to their search in milliseconds... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
    • Profile

    Davida Bynum

    brilliant and humble students from over 35 countries who are equally impressive as they are kind. The connection we have fostered has left an indelible impact on me and I am so grateful that HBS brought us together. What is your favorite... View Details
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    Online Management Course | HBS Online

    feedback exercise 10-12 hrs Module 4 Managing and Leading Change Understand the stages and drivers of effective organizational change, and learn how to lead change in large organizations. Highlights The Stages of Change Adopting a... View Details
    • May–June 2024
    • Article

    Should Your Brand Hire a Virtual Influencer?

    By: Serim Hwang, Shunyuan Zhang, Xiao Liu and Kannan Srinivasan
    Followers respond more favorably to sponsored posts by virtual influencers versus those by humans, costs are lower, and creating an influencer from scratch allows marketers to introduce more diversity. View Details
    Keywords: Social Media; AI and Machine Learning; Brands and Branding; Power and Influence
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    • 2023
    • Article

    Exploiting Discovered Regression Discontinuities to Debias Conditioned-on-observable Estimators

    By: Benjamin Jakubowski, Siram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
    Regression discontinuity (RD) designs are widely used to estimate causal effects in the absence of a randomized experiment. However, standard approaches to RD analysis face two significant limitations. First, they require a priori knowledge of discontinuities in... View Details
    Keywords: Regression Discontinuity Design; Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning
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    • 08 Aug 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

    for executives there to absorb and react to it, reduced the company's ability to respond to bid requests on a timely basis. Alert to this change, a European rival added a 24-hour limit to its competing bids, forcing quick decisions from... View Details
    Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
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    Faculty & Research - Business History

    Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production... View Details

      Rob Markey

      Rob Markey is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Managing Service Operations in the MBA elective curriculum. The course focuses on how to effectively design,... View Details

      • 06 Jun 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

      forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen Abstract—Assessing the productivity gains View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne