Interpretability - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

and efficiency, lean's influence (and various interpretations of its tenets) continues to grow. In their working paper "Lean Principles and Software Production: Evidence from Indian Software Services," HBS doctoral student... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

26 Sep 2024
HBS Seminar

Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia & Amazon

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

policy decisions. So the question is, ‘What drives those policy decisions?’ Those will be driven by the geopolitics. If we want to make sense of what happens next with financial markets, energy markets, and sanctions, we need to be able to make educated guesses and... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

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

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

impression of each customer much the same way two people ascertain each other’s character on a first date—by interpreting certain cues to infer important traits. “Let’s say you’re on a first date and you want to figure out whether this... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

short horizon and the volatility of their stock, this does not apply to the association between short-termism and cost of capital. We interpret this as evidence that our short-termism measure captures a dimension of non-diversifiable risk... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

discussions that you remember years later. It started with a terrific setup by Professor David Thomas, then the realization, little by little, of what the case was truly about, followed by deep lessons in interpretation of data and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

14 Sep 2018
Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

Business Modeling The last part of the course revolved around modeling and analyzing a company using the tools covered in prior classes. We learned how to apply an engineering approach to representing business models and interpreting... View Details

2018
Working Paper

Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg

Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy

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Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

these tasks will enable knowledge workers to concentrate on value-adding activities where human expertise is indispensable, such as interpreting context and nuance, exercising emotional intelligence, addressing moral and ethical... View Details

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

credits the work of the National Hurricane Center, Nate Silver, and others for helping educate the public on how to interpret probability forecasts, but more work is needed to improve visualizations. “Even if you say there’s a 10 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

contemporaries may have been unaware. It can challenge traditional interpretations of past crises and may help in understanding our present choices. Caitlin E. Anderson earned a Ph.D. in history at the University of Cambridge. She has... View Details

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

productivity. Moss also includes numerous tools for interpreting big-picture economic developments. We asked Moss to talk about the book and some of the events now taking place on the macroeconomic horizon. Sean Silverthorne: What's the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

then to turn against him. "They had different interpretations of what loyalty meant—it caused a reflection on the part of students about what they owe a leader and what they are owed by the leader," says Rose. Hamilton's story... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

25 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

should for the moment be interpreted as suggestive correlations rather than firm causality statements. Even so, encouraged by the results of the initial study, the group is planning to continue along this line of research by expanding the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

standards). But the corporate auditing arena is a particularly fertile ground for self-serving biases. Three structural aspects of accounting create substantial opportunities for bias to influence judgment. Ambiguity. Bias thrives wherever there is the possibility of... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

within either subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 4 Modules, 32 Hours Download full syllabus 6-8 hrs Module 1 Macroeconomic and Political Analysis Interpret data on countries’... View Details

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

ability to recognize patterns with our own ability to interpret them should be a tremendous boon to our creativity. However, if we feel threatened by the machines that we're working with, like they are going to take over the work that we... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Ethan Li

Ethan believes, "complement our cases. The speakers, the clubs – they offer a first-person narrative, a way to interact with leaders that is not interpreted by case structure or discussion. It's another way to get deeper insight on... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Manufacturing/Energy

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

position, which can be either “above the line” or “below the line.” To be above the line means that you are open and excited about the topic at hand; to be below the line is to be apprehensive or to interpret a situation as having control... View Details

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