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Oracle Efficient Private Non-Convex Optimization

By: Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, Giuseppe Vietri and Zhiwei Steven Wu
One of the most effective algorithms for differentially private learning and optimization is objective perturbation. This technique augments a given optimization problem (e.g. deriving from an ERM problem) with a random linear term, and then exactly solves it.... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Objective Perturbation; Mathematical Methods
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  • May 2020
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Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
Problem: Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
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  • July 2018
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LIXIL Group Corporation: Building a New Company in an Old Industry

By: Boris Groysberg and Akiko Kanno
In the spring of 2018, Kinya Seto, president and CEO of LIXIL Group Corporation, a major housing and building products and services company, called a meeting at the company’s head office in central Tokyo to discuss how to implement the new three-year strategic plan.... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Leadership And Change Management; Consolidation; Change Management; Leadership; Global Strategy; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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    Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

    High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
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    Health Care - Faculty & Research

    stopped. Second, using machine learning, we identify patients at the highest risk of drug-preventable adverse events. Contrary to the predictions of standard economic models, high-risk patients (e.g., those most likely to have a heart... View Details
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    Hiring International Students

    employer to first test the US labor market through a variety of standard recruitment methods (see below). The recruitment period lasts from 1 to 6 months and, once complete, the employer submits the labor certification application to the... View Details
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    Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

    U.S. Government, Grade 12 Standard Economics, Grade 11/12 Psychology elective OR Jonathan Chenjeri Klamath Union High School Klamath Falls, OR Subjects: History PA Chris Chirieleison Hill School Pottstown, PA Subjects: U.S. History, Civil... View Details
    • 04 Jun 2020
    • Book

    It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

    two things simultaneously, but we typically do one or the other, because we incorrectly think of it as a trade-off. People will reach their full potential if we set high standards for them, but at the same time, people also need to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 20 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Language Wars Divide Global Companies

    company called by the pseudonym GlobalTech, based in Germany, with mixed nationality teams working in the United States, Germany, and India. Two years before the study, GlobalTech standardized on English as its business language, to mixed... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard
    • 16 Jan 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

    accounting techniques is partly due to a Mississippi planter and accountant named Thomas Affleck, who developed account books for plantation owners that allowed them to make sophisticated calculations and measure productivity in a View Details
    Keywords: by Katie Johnston
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    Corporate bond ratings

    Standard & Poor's. For historical ratings, select an individual rating to see what historical ratings may be available. Standard & Poor's RatingsDirect (available from Capital IQ). Hover... View Details
    • 02 Nov 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs

    Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel
    • August 2020
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    Does Spending Money on Others Promote Happiness? A Registered Replication Report

    By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Jason Proulx, Iris Lok and Michael I. Norton
    Research indicates that spending money on others—prosocial spending—leads to greater happiness than spending money on oneself (e.g., Dunn, Aknin, & Norton, 2008, 2014). These findings have received widespread attention because they offer insight into why people engage... View Details
    Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Generosity; Well-being; Replication; Happiness; Behavior; Spending
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    • 13 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

    timing of repayment obligations. The standard microfinance contract has very little discretion in terms of when you repay your loan, so Natalia and her collaborators did one of the earliest studies to look at what happens if we relax that... View Details
    Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
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    Data - Advancing Racial Equity

    of 2023 & 2024 to ~1000 each. The Department of the Interior via the Office of Civil Rights provides federal guidelines for maintaining, collecting, and presenting data on race and ethnicity. HBS is required to follow these standards... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

    unknown. Excellence: When achieving high standards matters more than short-term performance. Altruism: When a company serves customers, employees, and others first and assumes that profit will follow. Making money—a lot of it—may result... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 16 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy and the Internet

    companies were forced to adapt their ways of doing things to the software. As a result, IT has been a force for standardizing activities and speeding competitive convergence. Internet architecture, together with other improvements in... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
    • 07 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

    of getting hit by a lawsuit and facing enforcement action by federal labor regulators. “The firms have an incentive—and a very real incentive—to put you just over the line,” Cohen says. Fixing the problem Looking ahead, one solution would be an overhaul of the New... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
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    Networking Events - Recruiting

    or 7:30pm ET start time and a duration of up to 90 minutes. Recruiting Standards of Conduct & Dates By hosting an event publicized through our office, you agree to the HBS Recruiting Standards of Conduct .... View Details
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    Downstream businesses that utilize global suppliers frequently use auditing programs to monitor their suppliers’ working conditions and are often deployed to address reputational concerns associated with procuring from unregulated suppliers. Despite their widespread... View Details
    Keywords: Audit Quality; Remote Work; Outsourcing; Econometric Analysis; Switching Costs; Service Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Retail Industry; Service Industry