Interpretability - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

export-led growth strategies are providing the right answer. This note outlines a number of these concerns, ranging from the practical to the conceptual. It argues that an underlying problem has been the misguided interpretation of export... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

12 Nov 2015
Blog Post

3 Facts About HBS Discussion Groups

Discussion groups meet each morning from 8:00-9:00am to help prepare for classes. People share different perspectives on the material and help each other prepare for the case method style of teaching and participation. Depending on the class, groups cover spreadsheet... 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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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Systems (NeurIPS). Himabindu Lakkaraju : Winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award from the Workshop on Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare (IMLH) at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) for "Which Explanation Should... View Details

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology in 2011. 2010 Michael I. Norton : Won the 2010 Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology for his paper with C.K. Morewedge, "When Dreaming Is Believing: The (Motivated) View Details

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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

an answer do we need? What range would you expect given the industry or circumstance? What would happen if we changed the variables or assumptions in a particular way? How would the numbers change if situation y manifested itself? Why do it x way and not y way? View Details

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

words, the feeling of getting an unanticipated bonus or penalty was more motivating to employees than actually getting a bonus or penalty they earned—perhaps because they interpreted it as a result of bias either for or against them by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

survive to this day—in schools of law, medicine, and divinity, respectively—in the modem American university. The study of law in America today remains rooted in the centuries-old traditions of Roman and Anglo-American law, as systematized and View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

rapidly gained share in the U.S. market. Although radials represented a sharp break with existing tire technology, tire industry managers interpreted the new technology in terms of their pre-existing strategic world-view. Many Firestone... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

rationalizations for the failures. Specifically, managers attributed large failures to uncontrollable events outside the organization (e.g., the economy) and to the intervention of outsiders. Small failures were interpreted as flukes, the... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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Celebrating 100 Years of the HBS Case Method

Executive Education participants learn to interpret and analyze information, drill into the root cause of issues, ask questions, listen to others' viewpoints, consider alternatives, and decide on a plan of action. Celebrating the Case... View Details

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

and fund managers 5 hrs Module 4 Measuring, Managing, and Accounting for Impact Interpret and analyze frameworks for measuring environmental and social factors, and integrate impact measurement into investment and management processes.... View Details

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

Measuring and interpreting efficiency along these higher aims can also be behaviorally compromised when measures have to be simplified or aggregated. Q: What is the potential impact of these behaviors on a company's supply chain... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

faculty members and students are responsible for understanding and complying with this policy. Faculty members and students are encouraged to seek advice from the Dean or a Dean’s designate for activities or questions not explicitly covered by the policy, or to request... View Details

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

with, as many people have said of Benjamin Franklin. He was just so witty, knowledgeable, and downright interesting that you couldn't come away without feeling enriched. Weaving together the fascinating story of his life with an View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

relevant. In fact, basic research can help to predict—or even to prevent—real-world events years before they happen. Case in point: In 1996, Max H. Bazerman and several colleagues published “Egocentric Interpretations of Fairness in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

help you know when to trust your data and how to interpret the results. By the end of the course, you should understand how to create a data-driven framework for your organization or yourself; develop hypotheses and insights from... View Details

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

only on paper.” There were several criticisms of the fact that the research identified correlations, not causes. Norman Toy made the point by stressing the especially mischievous nature of the use of correlation in this case. In his words, “One View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The tension between straight-ahead shareholder capitalism and broader... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

assets, and in introducing new categories that cannot be bought without the help of the core assets of their stores. With this constant evolution of product categories, retailers will also need to be much more cognizant of how they develop and View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

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