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Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

across divisions (e.g., Mickey’s birthday) – Disney University provides consistent training for employees across the company – Credit card and catalog designed to capture customer data across divisions – Senior personnel transferred... View Details
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Thomaz Galvao

want to close this gap by creating an online marketplace to match employers with employees we will train in technology and soft skills.” In order to get there, Thomaz says, “We want to build our brand so that our students are seen as... View Details
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

noncognitive, interpersonal skills during adolescence. Long-run administrative data shows that negotiation training significantly improved educational outcomes over the next three years. The training had... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

By: Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
Actors often match with associates on a small set of dimensions that matter most for the particular relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have more interests, attitudes, and preferences than would-be... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Patents; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Science-Based Business; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Game On

It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 05 May 2022
  • HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

Groysberg says: Companies should realize there are a lot of talented people out there without college degrees who nevertheless have developed and honed their technology, lab, sales, leadership, and other skills via the military, on-the-job View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • September–October 2023
  • Article

Reskilling in the Age of AI

By: Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic and Raffaella Sadun
In the coming decades, as the pace of technological change continues to increase, millions of workers may need to be not just upskilled but reskilled—a profoundly complex societal challenge that will sometimes require workers to both acquire new skills and... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; AI and Machine Learning; Training; Adaptation; Employees; Digital Transformation
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  • 2023
  • Article

Verifiable Feature Attributions: A Bridge between Post Hoc Explainability and Inherent Interpretability

By: Usha Bhalla, Suraj Srinivas and Himabindu Lakkaraju
With the increased deployment of machine learning models in various real-world applications, researchers and practitioners alike have emphasized the need for explanations of model behaviour. To this end, two broad strategies have been outlined in prior literature to... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods
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  • September 2009
  • Article

The Technology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders

By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
Technology management poses particular challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business Education; Multinational Firms and Management; Entertainment; Communication; Curriculum and Courses; Framework; Design; Goals and Objectives; Learning; Information Technology Industry
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    Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration in the Presence of Outliers

    1. Problem definition: While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may perform well on data that are representative of the training set (inliers), they may err when extrapolating on non-representative data (outliers). How can humans and algorithms work together to... View Details
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    Community College Report - Managing the Future of Work

    more relevant and effective in three areas: training and education aligned with industry needs, commitments to hire community college students, and sharing of data on the supply and demand for talent. Read the Report Executive Summary... View Details
    • Teaching Interest

    Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

    Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

    • 09 Aug 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

    vocational training based on the Swiss model. These efforts are proving that such an approach can indeed work in the US. ‘The distribution of dignity’ People want a dignified way to earn a living and contribute economically. It’s not... View Details
    Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg
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    Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    (MBA 2026) Faith Agili 24 Jul 2025 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore... Inside Upswell: A Perspective from Prelude Music Foundation Ana Treviño-Godfrey Jonathan Godfrey... View Details
    • 07 Jun 2023
    • Blog Post

    My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

    Peterson (A).” The case discusses the problems that a recent MBA graduate faces when he joins a new company and has a difficult time managing people. A lot of us are trained to be individual contributors from a young age. Prior to coming... View Details
    • 11 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

    bus driver. She'd even stopped riding on his bus and got on by accident. She'd been to a number of civil rights training programs. After she was arrested, the people in the civil rights movement sat down and asked themselves, "Is... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 19 May 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

    education and training have too often reinforced barriers between working and learning, rather than bridging the worlds of education and employment. This is an opportune moment to re-evaluate the country’s fundamental approach to human... View Details
    Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
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    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    in 2002 as a non-profit print publication, and by 2023, had evolved into a multimedia news site that was part of a for profit, socially-focused company—Chambal Media. Over the years, it had trained several rural women, many from... View Details
    • 30 Sep 2019
    • Book

    6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

    hiring Companies should train managers to root out racial bias from their hiring and recruitment processes. They should also invest in retaining black professionals, in part by reinforcing the message that race will not be a barrier to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 27 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

    missions like that, who had time for an identity crisis? Integration challenges After the initial triage phase, the FBI realized the need to improve its threat analysis function; after all, law enforcement agents were not trained to... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel