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Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness
By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu
The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details
Kearns, Michael J., Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, and Zhiwei Steven Wu. "Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 35th (2018).
- 31 Mar 2022
- HBS Seminar
John Paul MacDuffie, Wharton
- Fast Answer
Bloomberg: Excel Add-In
Table where you will add your securities, whatever data fields you wish to import, and a date range. You can also use the Function Builder to pull in data. The most commonly used function is BDH which... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
“If a brand wants to create a conversation with you, the message of the brand has to be broader than just the function of the product itself,” Gupta says. “In social media, functional messages don’t work.... View Details
- 18 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)
complimentary sessions each calendar year. That is an amazing lifetime benefit! How has your MBA experience influenced your career path? My HBS MBA education gave me the opportunity to: Explore many career paths: The case method made it possible for me to learn about a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
required three kinds of specialists: business managers, country managers, and functional managers, with a group of senior executives to coordinate the efforts of the specialists. In 2003, as globalization has become a much more pressing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description - Recruiting
function or product-based keywords to describe the job's area of work. Think about the format and length Job descriptions in paragraph form can be hard to process. Make the beginning easy to scan so candidates quickly know if the job is a... View Details
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
pay, Healy says. For job functions with fewer women, such as R&D, general management, and operations, compensation increases for women switching firms averaged 37.3 percent, versus 23.1 percent for men. Women with partners and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
modern economy, and how governance systems differ internationally. He discussed the key functions of boards and reviewed the challenges boards currently face. Professor Kaplan addressed techniques and tools boards can use to improve... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
inventory management), production, and logistics. Many of these [academic] papers pursue an optimizing approach given the assumption of a completely rational decision maker. In a supply chain, however, these activities are usually spread over multiple View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
and the availability of limited liability to raise finance for the new business opportunities which appeared at this time. They functioned in part as venture capitalists identifying opportunities and placing potential British investors in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
performance indicators that shifts strategic decision making to customer-facing edges of the organization. Others advocate less sweeping but still significant changes: Housing the budgeting and strategic planning functions in one office,... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
reconnaissance of potentially hazardous spaces. The quadcopter functions in total darkness, in buildings it has never previously entered, and flies without prior knowledge or programming of the space—even in areas without GPS or... View Details
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
and think in strategic terms are critical. They need good interpersonal skills since they must interact effectively and authoritatively with senior business units and functional heads. Project management experience is desirable to oversee... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
PublicationsPricing to Create Shared Value Authors:Marco Bertini and John T. Gourville Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Many companies are in competition with their customers to extract as much value as possible from every... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2020
- Chapter
Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective
By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
This chapter offers a survey of the evolution of Turkish capitalism from the 19th century Ottoman Empire until the present day. It shows that Turkish business over the last century and a half was shaped in an institutional context similar to those in many developing... View Details
Keywords: Business Groups; Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government and Politics; History; Religion; Business History; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones. "Business, Ethics and Institutions. The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective." Chap. 1 in Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives, edited by Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones, 3–22. New York: Routledge, 2020.
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
functioning of an effective board of directors, which is legally elected by the owners and has legal responsibilities and powers. My recommendations about a board of directors also apply to a board or council of advisors, one that is... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in Clean Energy
that drove me in my career. I was working on spreadsheets at 2 a.m. just helping make a random billion-dollar company a bigger profit, which wasn’t as rewarding as refueling a tank battalion at 2 a.m. How can students best familiarize themselves with different career... View Details