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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana

By: Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Benjamin N. Roth and Christopher Udry
We study the impact of mobile money transfers to a representative sample of low-income Ghanaians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement of the upcoming transfers affects neither consumption, well-being, nor social distancing. Once disbursed,... View Details
Keywords: Social Distancing; Social Welfare; Economic Relief; Health Pandemics; Poverty
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  • July–August 2013
  • Article

Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement

By: Michel Anteby
Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement... View Details
Keywords: Fieldwork; Research Practiced; Distance; Involvement; Taboo; Practice; Ethics; Education Industry
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  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

adult learning workshop was looking at the strengths and weaknesses of face-to-face education versus online distance learning. But in fact, these two types of education can be quite complementary. Should... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2017
  • News

Going the Distance

governor’s office of economic development in Utah, last year wrapped up an 11-year path of voyage and endurance spanning 38 countries, climbing 14.5 vertical miles, and sailing 35,000 nautical miles. “Real learning and personal growth... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 17 Jan 2020
  • Blog Post

Going the Distance for Investment Excellence

students come together and learn from each other. Sometimes you just know what’s right and pivot toward that.” In fact, HBS was the only graduate program Cameron applied to. He appreciated that HBS wasn’t a finance-only... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2022
  • News

Cost of Distancing May Outweigh Benefits for Healthy Adults

  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Recognizing Potential

as cochair. Stevens, managing director of S-Cubed Capital and a former managing partner at Sequoia Capital, has invested in Internet companies for nearly two decades, but it was his own encounter with distance View Details
Keywords: Internet; distance learning; online education; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from U.S. States

By: Clare Halloran, Rebecca Jack, James C. Okun and Emily Oster
We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or distance learning) on test scores. We combine Spring 2021 state standardized test score data with comprehensive data on schooling in the 2020-21 school year across 12 states. We find... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; In-person Schooling; Distance Learning; Outcomes Measurement; Health Pandemics; Education; Performance Evaluation
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  • August 2018 (Revised April 2019)
  • Case

Chateau Winery (A): Unsupervised Learning

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
This case follows Bill Booth, marketing manager of a regional wine distributor, as he applies unsupervised learning on data about his customers’ purchases to better understand their preferences. Specifically, he uses the K-means clustering technique to identify groups... View Details
Keywords: Clustering; Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Customers; Marketing; Analysis
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Charting (and Updating) the Path: A Bayesian Perspective on Entrepreneurial Learning

By: Joshua L. Krieger
This chapter explores two distinct modes of entrepreneurial learning: assessing venture viability and choosing between alternative development paths. It introduces a framework for decomposing venture viability into technological feasibility, commercial potential and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Learning
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  • 26 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

international objectives are in jeopardy today. To the extent that business strategies are based on these same erroneous notions, they are also at great risk. Q: What can a business executive learn about leadership from your research? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2019
  • News

This holiday season, we can all learn a lesson from Beethoven

  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

Mainstream churches, meanwhile, were not benefiting from the distanced relationship, and indeed were ceding ground to secular spirituality and its offshoots from New Age crystals to personal empowerment. How to bridge the Sunday-Monday... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2022
  • Article

Exploring Counterfactual Explanations Through the Lens of Adversarial Examples: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.

By: Martin Pawelczyk, Chirag Agarwal, Shalmali Joshi, Sohini Upadhyay and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As machine learning (ML) models become more widely deployed in high-stakes applications, counterfactual explanations have emerged as key tools for providing actionable model explanations in practice. Despite the growing popularity of counterfactual explanations, a... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning Models; Counterfactual Explanations; Adversarial Examples; Mathematical Methods
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  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

century depended on the cultural distance between immigrants and natives. To proxy for cultural distance, I used linguistic distance from English and religion, noting that anti-Catholicism was widespread in... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • September 2018
  • Case

Advent International: Kroton Investment

By: Victoria Ivashina, Ruth Kostas and Priscilla Zogbi
Keywords: Private Equity; Acquisition; IPO; Valuation; Education; Distance Learning; Turnaround; Growth; Exit; PE; Buyer; Middle-class; Low Income; K-12; Entrepreneur; Family Business; University; College; Consolidation; Fragmentation; Penetration; Value; Shares; Control; Negotiation; Equity; Transaction; Board; Majority; Minority; Post-secondary; Leverage; Campus; Deal; Shareholder; Tag Along; Brazil; Latin America
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  • September 2018
  • Supplement

Advent International: Kroton Investment

By: Victoria Ivashina, Priscilla Zogbi and Ruth Kostas
Keywords: Private Equity; Acquisition; IPO; Valuation; Education; Distance Learning; Turnaround; Growth; Exit; PE; Buyer; Middle-class; Low Income; K-12; Entrepreneur; Family Business; University; College; Consolidation; Fragmentation; Penetration; Value; Shares; Control; Negotiation; Equity; Transaction; Board; Majority; Minority; Post-secondary; Leverage; Campus; Deal; Shareholder; Tag Along
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  • 07 Sep 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurs (Co-) Working in Close Proximity: Impacts on Technology Adoption and Startup Performance Outcomes

Keywords: by Maria P. Roche, Alexander Oettl, and Christian Catalini
  • 14 Feb 2018
  • Blog Post

HBS Partner Feature: Love Doesn’t Need a Zip Code

We caught up with Frances to learn about their story and the distance they’ve traveled to support each other’s dreams.   When you know, you just know. Jeremy and I met at Tufts University in Boston, MA as... View Details

    Arthur C. Brooks

    Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and... View Details