Interpretability - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

admirers right away, leveling the playing field and giving users a confidence boost. Picture walking around knowing exactly who likes you without needing to interpret signs like smiles, texts, and awkward banter. The research team... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

Ury, and Patton, 1991) along with many later interpretations can be problematic, limiting, and even misleading in at least three ways that this article analyzes and illustrates. First, early characterizations could be easily read to imply... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

2014
Working Paper

The Nobel Prize: A 'Heritage-based' Brand-oriented Network

By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser

Purpose — Understanding the Nobel Prize as a 'true' heritage brand in a networked situation and its management challenges, especially regarding identity and reputation.

Methodology — The Nobel Prize serves as an in-depth case study and is analysed within... View Details

Keywords: Nobel Prize; Heritage Brand; Brand Network; Networked Brand; Brand Within A Network; Brand Orientation; Brand Stewardship; Corporate Brand Identity; Reputation; Networks; Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Brands and Branding

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03 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

Your new boss will have more impact than anyone else over whether you succeed or fail. Your boss establishes benchmarks for your success, interprets your actions for other key players, and controls resources you need. Building a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

engage in active inquiry and observations, and be mindful that your assumptions or interpretation of a given culture might not be accurate or applicable in a given context. One way to do this is by keeping a journal and writing down... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

about the impact of microfinance.” Bulletin: One of the great surprises of microfinance has been the astonishingly high rates of loan repayment, at around 96 or 98 percent. How do you interpret that? Ben Roth: One metric of success is... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

labeled the "Balanced Scorecard Conference," managers throughout the organization don't have any trouble interpreting the commitment of senior executives to using the scorecard to create the Strategy-Focused Organization. The... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

22 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions

Keywords: by David F. Drake; Manufacturing

21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

turns out that long before robots replace workers en masse, if ever, workers will be using AI-based tools to do work, as is already seen with radiologists who employ such tools to interpret X-rays and lawyers who turn to machine learning... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

21 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Research Summary

Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era

The aim of the book is to illustrate the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the 1990s. The topic is important both because China is the world's second largest recipient of FDI and because there are substantial misconceptions about the drivers of... View Details

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

mullahs for most of the 1990s—and Frank a lot longer than that—is that it's a process of education," Hayes told the group. "When they get to understand what's involved in an international transaction, they are more willing to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

my own work, I see that such surprise asks make people more inclined to say yes. One of the interpretations for that result is that, if I have time to think about it, I have more time to come up with excuses to say no. But if I’m... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

finding jobs in existing firms that are commensurate with their skills—either because of discrimination or because companies don’t know how to interpret their skill set. “Imagine I gave you a CV of somebody who had a bachelor’s degree... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

22 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

where people say, ‘Oh, we almost made a huge mistake,’” explains Jung. “That interpretation highlights a vulnerability in the care-delivery processes. But it can also be thought of as a success, where they say, ‘Whew, we caught the error... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health

24 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

When $3+$1 > $4: The Effect of Gift Salience on Employee Effort in an Online Labor Market

Keywords: by Duncan Gilchrist, Michael Luca & Deepak Malhotra

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

seemed possible to conceive of the historian’s task as only translating the mysteries of a distant world for those in the present. Now the ways of knowing that held together a particular time, its events and ideas, mattered as well. Equally important was a historian’s... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

09 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

Skies." Nike insists that you "Just Do It." The most successful brands also allow their consumers to co-create brand meaning. “Let's Make America Great Again” is an inclusive call to arms with a powerful goal that each voter can View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

16 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

correct the [consumer] mistake, but also influences how you interpret whether an intervention is working,” says Schwartzstein. The paper, published in the Winter 2018 edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, examined previous work... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

companies that are run by people, sometimes the easiest explanation for racial inequality is that something is wrong or that White people are special. So, it’s easy to say that’s just how it’s supposed to be. DeLollis: You say your T.R.A.P. Lab’s research can help... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

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