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Closings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
participant-centered learning. They worry that students will become dependent on the instructor to present a definitive synthesis and analysis of the discussion, thus shifting responsibility away from participants to assess and continue... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
learn from everybody," he said, and one of the key characteristics of his career was that he kept learning until the day he died. He learned... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Incrementality Representation Learning: Synergizing Past Experiments for Intervention Personalization
By: Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
This paper introduces Incrementality Representation Learning (IRL), a novel multitask representation learning framework that predicts heterogeneous causal effects of marketing interventions. By leveraging past experiments, IRL efficiently designs and targets... View Details
Keywords: Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Multi-task Learning; Representation Learning; Personalization; Promotion; Deep Learning; Field Experiments; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customization and Personalization
Huang, Ta-Wei, Eva Ascarza, and Ayelet Israeli. "Incrementality Representation Learning: Synergizing Past Experiments for Intervention Personalization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-076, June 2024.
- 03 May 2011
- News
Leadership Lessons from the Saddle
- 2024
- Working Paper
Priors, Experiments, Learning and Persuasion in (Bayesian) Entrepreneurial Finance
By: Ramana Nanda
At the heart of entrepreneurial finance lies a persuasion challenge: regardless of
the strength of an entrepreneur’s belief in the potential of their idea, they typically
need to convince investors to provide the financial capital required for its... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Communication Intention and Meaning; Prejudice and Bias
Nanda, Ramana. "Priors, Experiments, Learning and Persuasion in (Bayesian) Entrepreneurial Finance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-020, October 2024.
- 09 Dec 2019
- News
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
- September 2006
- Article
The Speed of Learning in Noisy Games: Partial Reinforcement and the Sustainability of Cooperation
By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Alvin E. Roth
In an experiment, players ability to learn to cooperate in the repeated prisoners dilemma was substantially diminished when the payoffs were noisy, even though players could monitor one anothers past actions perfectly. In contrast, in one-time play against a succession... View Details
Bereby-Meyer, Yoella, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Speed of Learning in Noisy Games: Partial Reinforcement and the Sustainability of Cooperation." American Economic Review 96, no. 4 (September 2006): 1029–1042.
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
in the book, were overwhelmed by Xerox's mismanagement of the computer applications for its technology. In response to the criticism set forth by the two authors, who were consultants for McKinsey, Xerox decided to improve its ability to profit View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 2022
- Chapter
Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization
By: Rawi Abdelal
Every order is a bargain with disappointments and trade-offs. Thus is every order an unstable equilibrium. The first era of globalization, circa 1870–1914, created both international prosperity and domestic instability. That instability was fully realized during the... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Policy; Economic Systems; Balance and Stability; Europe; European Union; United States
Abdelal, Rawi. "Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization." In The Downfall of the American Order? edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Jonathan Kirshner, 105–123. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022.
- 09 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Insights From Harvard Business School’s Peek Program
students to learn about the HBS community and student experience, and hear about MBA admissions and financial aid. We spoke with Yue Yu, a graduate of Connecticut College and a current master's student at Vanderbilt University, originally... View Details
- October 2018
- Article
The Operational Value of Social Media Information
By: Ruomeng Cui, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno and Dennis J. Zhang
While the value of using social media information has been established in multiple business contexts, the field of operations and supply chain management have not yet explored the possibilities it offers in improving firms' operational decisions. This study attempts to... View Details
Cui, Ruomeng, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis J. Zhang. "The Operational Value of Social Media Information." Special Issue on Big Data in Supply Chain Management. Production and Operations Management 27, no. 10 (October 2018): 1749–1774.
- 12 May 2021
- News
Aid from Afar
As HBS student Shyamli Badgaiyan watched the COVID-19 crisis surge in India in recent weeks, the Delhi native felt anxious and helpless. “I found myself thinking of ways to help from afar—an instinct I would later View Details
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Adaptive Machine Unlearning
By: Varun Gupta, Christopher Jung, Seth Neel, Aaron Roth, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi and Chris Waites
Data deletion algorithms aim to remove the influence of deleted data points from trained models at a cheaper computational cost than fully retraining those models. However, for sequences of deletions, most prior work in the non-convex setting gives valid guarantees... View Details
Gupta, Varun, Christopher Jung, Seth Neel, Aaron Roth, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi, and Chris Waites. "Adaptive Machine Unlearning." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 34 (2021).
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
hold in most organizations. Despite happy talk, most people would rather do anything but fail. Failure, it seems, is fine in theory, and fine for other people, but difficult to accept for ourselves. Moreover, our efforts to learn View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
lifelong-learning content. In September, we launched a Lifelong Learning page on the Alumni website that offers a robust, curated mix of articles, videos, podcasts, and programming from many partners across... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
this lifelong learning to you. We’re calling this work “stages not ages,” as a shorthand way of noting that the learning needs of our alumni are constantly changing yet fall loosely into five stages based on... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
In previous columns, I have talked about our ongoing efforts to pilot lifelong learning opportunities for our alumni. Now I would like to report on some initial outcomes. In June, 73 members of the MBA Classes of 1995 to 2005 came to... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 14 Sep 2018
- News
Lessons Learned 10 Years After the Financial Crisis
crisis of 2007-2009 were designed the way they were.” In the video from the event, when asked for the worst personal moment, Paulson recounts the weekend that it became clear that Lehman Brothers was going to fail. “I was overcome with a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Lessons from Everest
part of a relatively recent phenomenon — organized adventures in which companies escort small groups of clients, willing to pay some $60,000 each, to try to summit the mountain. From his intellectual base camp in Hawes Hall, Roberto... View Details