Learning To Learn - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2005
News

Health-Care Initiative to Leverage Ongoing Efforts

Dean Kim B. Clark has announced the formation of a faculty initiative in health care, with HBS professor of management practice Richard G. Hamermesh serving as chair. Technology strategy, the design of care delivery, consumer-driven health care, team View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

15 Mar 2024
HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

of “fake harmony” that has become popular in today’s workplace and learn how to speak up appropriately, she says. “What do you speak about with colleagues?” Wing asks. “Weather, food, sports, and sometimes... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Mar 2023
News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

case-based approach to teaching and learning relies heavily on exposing HBS students to a wide variety of perspectives because we’re preparing them View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jun 2019
News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

Illustration by Decue Wu HBS professor Deepak Malhotra recalls the moment he learned about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a tragedy that took the lives of 20 first-graders and six staff members... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

the marketplace to new approaches. Entrepreneurs learn to identify ideas by raising their head above day-to-day operations and expanding their vision. They then prioritize and... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

07 May 2015
Blog Post

Career Change: From the Military to Consulting

the long term. Did you come to HBS with the plan to go into a different career after graduation? I left the Army before coming to HBS, and I was sure I wanted View Details

16 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

outside opportunities appear, one lesson should remain to the fore: The more you focus, the easier it becomes to channel and make the most of your resources. Once your business begins View Details

Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak

September 2018
Article

Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com

By: Weijia Dai, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee and Michael Luca

Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd, the way in which they are aggregated is a central decision faced by platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in... View Details

Keywords: User Generated Content; Crowdsourcing; Yelp; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information; Internet and the Web; Learning; Mathematical Methods; E-commerce

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01 Apr 2000
News

Time to Vote in University Elections

Board has thirty members elected at large by Harvard degree holders in annual groups of five for six-year terms. The Overseers' chief roles are to visit the graduate schools, departments, and museums of the University View Details

06 Sep 2018
Blog Post

How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

incredible learning opportunity. 1. Have a north star. Recalibrate towards it daily. Before this internship, I chatted with an HBS professor with enterprise sales expertise to come up with a tentative game... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

12 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

After COVID-19 shut down most professional sports leagues last year, fans have been eagerly returning to games and matches. But what will keep them coming back after the pandemic? Leagues might assume that their star athletes and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports

15 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background

perspective and skill set coming in. Lastly, have confidence in your ability to contribute to the HBS (or any) community. People at HBS have as much to View Details

March 2014 (Revised January 2017)
Case

From Beijing Jeep to ASC Fine Wines: The Story of an American Family Business in China

By: William C. Kirby and Erica M. Zendell

In 1985, Don St. Pierre Sr. became President of Beijing Jeep, the troubled joint venture between American Motor Corporation and the Chinese government to build Jeep Cherokees in China. Just over a decade later in 1996, leveraging contacts from his time in the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; China; Joint Ventures; Wine Industry; International Entrepreneurship; International Business; Exports; Chinese Manufacturing; Business And Government Relations; Ownership Stake; Strategy; Operations; Auto Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China

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12 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Applying to HBS in Round 3?

engineering roles to product and brand marketing ones, I realized that I wanted to learn about skills and perspectives I couldn’t learn on the... View Details

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

data, the algorithm learns to predict the outcome from the input data. Unsupervised learning. In this case, using unlabeled data, the algorithm learns the inherent structure... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Feb 2016
News

Applying Business Principles to Military Problems

Donald Reidy (MBA 1990) is director of strategic planning and resource allocation for the Naval Special Warfare Command, in California. In this video, he talks about applying business management principles learned at HBS View Details

06 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

India Needs to Encourage Trade with China

things they would like to learn from, most notably in recent years in software, they are quick to send delegation after delegation to Nasscom's... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

23 Oct 2019
News

Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

learning techniques to draw conclusions that weren’t possible with traditional methods, and creating new machine learning approaches and algorithms. They have published more... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

09 Sep 2016
News

Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO

million last year—discusses how she employed strategies from her years as a consultant to her startup work. “What I really learned from those experiences was how to break down... View Details

05 Oct 2016
News

Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab

possible by a gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982), the lab will offer shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. It will provide View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

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