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15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

to the small but fast-growing Vietnamese economy. "In strategy class at HBS they always taught us to try to be the best at whatever you do in business," says Hoa. "If you talk... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

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Guntas enjoys helping students explore Private Equity careers, leveraging his advisory and investing experience across North America, Europe, and the Middle East. With a background in Investment Banking and... View Details

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

If you are an executive of a multinational looking for geographies in which to expand your markets, operations, and investments, is China more attractive than India? South Africa better than Mexico? Does Russia have more promise than the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

explores the emergence of "air taxis," a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that have come on the market recently. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

the real world works with racism and power the day they leave the School than the day they arrived.” Austin: This course was more important to... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path out of Polarization

Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

put it mildly, this was an overly rich valuation—Parker’s entire investment up to that point had been an Apple II and 10 used diskettes. With Parker’s enthusiastic assent, Sahlman used the TDC business plan as View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

May 30 2018
Testimonial

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01 Apr 1996
News

"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

Why were 253 people from all walks of life and parts of the globe pursuing academic work in teams in the Shad Hall fitness center in the middle... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

How did you become interested in the impact of high-skill immigrant labor? In the 1990s I helped develop a wireless data technology for a Korean company. The inventor was a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 Sep 2019
Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

his tuition by trading his own stocks. This fall, Ameen will begin classes at Harvard Business School, where he says he hopes to strengthen the financial, analytical, and leadership skills that will help him... View Details

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

the country's first public access technology center established in an inner city, said the center has 26 computers plus video and music editing equipment, and offers residents View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

Janelle Teng is from the Class of 2020 and a proud member of Section C. From completing her undergraduate studies at Stanford University to working as a product manager at SalesforceIQ, Janelle has spent... View Details

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

knowledge of the business is not what got you where you are. So you're less likely to have confidence in your own intuition. This is an intuitive process, because the numbers aren't in and View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

string of concussion-level hits. And NFL team reports suggest head injuries may actually be on the increase. This new research push underlies a class action lawsuit against the... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

2022
Article

Fairness via Explanation Quality: Evaluating Disparities in the Quality of Post hoc Explanations

By: Jessica Dai, Sohini Upadhyay, Ulrich Aivodji, Stephen Bach and Himabindu Lakkaraju

As post hoc explanation methods are increasingly being leveraged to explain complex models in high-stakes settings, it becomes critical to ensure that the quality of the resulting explanations is consistently high across all subgroups of a population. For instance, it... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Mathematical Methods; Research; Analytics and Data Science

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29 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?

trading block in the world. Financial markets had been complacent and were caught off guard by an early morning earthquake that affected most traded asset classes around the... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

20 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

advice. I made great friends from my MBA class and became part of a lifelong community. Do you think you could have achieved your short-term goals without an MBA? No. I recently moved from BCG to PepsiCo and my MBA from HBS played many... View Details

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