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  • Teaching Interest

FIELD 2 (Jakarta, Indonesia)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) is a field course giving first-year students meaningful and numerous opportunities to act like leaders, translating their ideas into practice.

As a complement to the case method, the field method... View Details
  • August 2015 (Revised January 2017)
  • Technical Note

From Correlation to Causation

By: Feng Zhu and Karim R. Lakhani
To make sound business decisions, managers must be comfortable with the concepts of correlation and causation. This background note provides an overview of correlation and causation using examples and explains why the former does not imply the latter. It also describes... View Details
Keywords: Statistics; Regression; Data Analytics; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Judgments
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  • 21 Feb 2022
  • Video

Professor Krishna Palepu: Integrated

  • 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
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Caccia Selvaggia: Myth, Rites, and the Right in Carlo Ginzburg's Storia notturna

By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
Carlo Ginzburg (b. 1939) is widely considered one of Europe’s leading historians. His masterpiece Storia notturna (Turin: Einaudi, 1989), widely praised for its extraordinary erudition and creativity, is now over three decades old but it continues to inspire... View Details
Keywords: Mythology; Culture; Political Doctrine; History; Government and Politics; Society
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  • Web

Summer Venture in Management

tech, sectors in which attending business school was not as common or encouraged. SVMP showed me the value of an MBA, and the unique power of the case method teaching style. I saw firsthand how learning business skills through discussion... View Details
  • 03 Sep 2024
  • News

Welcoming the MBA Class of 2026 to Harvard Business School

  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

    David Ager

    David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Interpersonal Communication & Human-Computer Interaction

    This stream of research, combining methods from experimental psychology and natural language processing, investigates behaviors that improve interpersonal communication. In our paper on question-asking published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,... View Details
    Keywords: Communication; Responsiveness; Negotiation; Gender Stereotypes
    • May–June 2015
    • Article

    Big Data: Big Deal or Big Hype?

    By: Sunil Gupta
    Google Flu Trends article of November 2008 heralded a new age for big data where it is possible to leverage the vast amount of data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a short span the pendulum swung from big data... View Details
    Keywords: Big Data; Analytics and Data Science; Management Practices and Processes
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    • 27 Mar 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Joshua Margolis, Harvard Business School

    • Web

    Capstone | MBA

    discussions. Like in the case method classroom, the presenter, advisors, and fellow students share their opinions and experiences. It’s a collegial conversation, a debate stage, a celebration of hard work, and a showcase of two years of... View Details
    • 17 May 2022
    • News

    Delivering a Personalized Shopping Experience with AI

      Willis M. Emmons

      WILLIAM (WILLIS) EMMONS is Senior Lecturer and Director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard Business School, a position he has held since 2004.  As Director of the Christensen Center, Emmons oversees programs to... View Details

      Keywords: airline; infrastructure industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; utilities
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Strategic Foresight as Dynamic Capability: A New Lens on Knightian Uncertainty

      By: J. Peter Scoblic
      This paper proposes to treat strategic foresight as a dynamic capability, providing a new theoretical lens on managerial judgment. Formulating strategy under uncertainty is a central challenge facing the modern firm. Analogy is thought to help managers make sense of... View Details
      Keywords: Foresight; Dynamic Capabilities; Managerial Judgment; Risk and Uncertainty; Management; Strategy
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      • Article

      Wealth-Making in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain: Industry v. Commerce and Finance

      By: Tom Nicholas
      This paper refutes the hypothesis put forward by W.D. Rubinstein that a disproportionately large share of Britain's wealth makers were active in commercial and financial trades in London. We use a data set of businessmen active in nineteenth- and early... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; Finance; Commercialization; Mathematical Methods; Wealth and Poverty; Great Britain; London
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      • 2012
      • Chapter

      Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model

      By: Michael C. Jensen, Werner Erhard and Kari L. Granger
      The sole objective of our ontological/phenomenological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we mean a way of being and acting in any... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Development; Attitudes; Behavior; Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Acquisition
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      • 2017
      • Chapter

      Marketing Models for the Customer-Centric Firm

      By: Eva Ascarza, Peter S. Fader and Bruce G.S. Hardie
      A customer-centric firm takes the view that there are three key drivers of (organic) growth and overall profitability: Customer acquisition, customer retention, and customer development (i.e., increasing the value of each existing customer (per unit of time) while they... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships
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      • November 1999 (Revised July 2003)
      • Case

      Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.

      By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
      Pre-Paid Legal Services' business model reveals two key issues--managing the sales force and sales growth and managing claims. Students analyze the economics of the business and consider how to measure firm performance, how to evaluate and reward the sales force, and... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Salesforce Management; Marketing Strategy; Accrual Accounting; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Insurance; Business Growth and Maturation; Insurance Industry
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