Deep Exponential Families - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Feb 2023
Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

Eliseeva. For Eva Ascarza, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, rituals are all in service of devoting her mind solely to the case discussion. First and foremost is printing out her “logistics” document: a... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

$10 million a year. The internet rescued us.” Family bonding: “For one week every summer, we’ve been building a tree house. We must have 10,000 pounds of lumber up in the air. It’s really sturdy—but it’s an unpleasing aesthetic... View Details

18 Apr 2022
News

Home Grown

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes With InMobi and now Glance, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) is at the forefront of a growing trend of global consumer technology companies created in Asia from the ground up. Growing up in a View Details

06 Jan 2017
News

Mental Illness and the Workplace

And in some cases, happen at the same time. And over time, I've learned to manage it using what I call, a cocktail of approaches. I use medication daily. Exercise daily. Meditation. But I also, have a very supportive family and structure... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About

and Mary are unapologetic about the reality that success in their industry requires it. Yet both also spend many hours mentoring subordinates, setting the next generation of leaders up for success. And they each display deep devotion to... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

A Summit Higher Than Everest

Alaska Fairbanks; descriptions from his family and other climbers; and other historical sources. I. The first time Terris Moore (MBA 1933, DCS 1937) saw the magnificent Minya Konka was in March 1930. He was sitting in the cozy library of... View Details

Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure

24 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 24

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198704072.do August 2013 Journal of Service Management Notes from the Search for Deep Indicators in Services By: Heskett, James L. Abstract—Much of the research in the service sector over the last... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2022
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

moved from Morgan Stanley to HSBC, the team sizes went from a few hundred people to 12,000 and then to 35,000 when I became chair. Diversity and inclusivity were still relatively new concepts then, and it was great to have a part in that work.” View Details

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

From Coercion to Excitement Authors:Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider Abstract We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

start and grow their own business. The president of the worldwide MIT Alumni Association, he brings an insider’s view based on three decades of successful, serial entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. His book combines practical principles, entertaining anecdotes, View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

organizational scholars assume that leadership equals economic performance—an assumption that is a source of deep concern to you. Can you give us some background to the debate? Joel M. Podolny, Rakesh Khurana, and Marya Hill-Popper: One... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of New York City. They had... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that her team increasingly discounts her deep client expertise while deferring to the senior partner's more generalized... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

than a figurehead, with the deep sector experience and the business expertise required to recover from the crisis and set a new course for the future—and to lead the way with integrity and compassion. In truth, McKenna didn’t know the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

generations of the same family may even cease to regress towards the mean. Moreover, we demonstrate that government interventions intended to ameliorate inequality may in fact lower intergenerational mobility—even when they do not... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

in which they live and work,” said Susan Gilbert, Robert K. Kraft Family Director, MBA Financial Aid. “Embodying the School’s mission to create leaders who make a difference in the world, their contributions to serving those in need make... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

grew up in a poorer environment? Morino: My family was blue collar, but we were never poor. There's a distinction between being in deep poverty and living in a low-income world. We had food and clothing. And... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

the future," he concluded. "If you want to buy a home today, you better have great credit. You better have a down payment. That all sounds fine and secure, but it certainly leaves behind millions of families who are at the lower... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

of a large incumbent organization, with high personnel costs, crippling bureaucracy, lack of customer-centricity, a dull brand, and eroding profitability. Tsamaz was taking over the reins at a time of deep economic crisis in Greece, which... View Details