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- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
tools can be applied. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50595 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on Standardized View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Day in IFC: Marta Milkowska (HKS), United Kingdom - MBA
750 pages of interviews with subject matter experts in journal articles, academic papers, books, and other literature. In January 2017, our team spent ten days working with BI Ventures to design a "rainy day savings" intervention plan. The following photos showcase a...
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- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
buyouts on target firms and their workers vary greatly by deal type and market conditions. Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing An analysis of the adoption of A/B testing...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Athena Ko
keep painting fences for inner city redevelopment. I will continue to believe though the sufferings around me severely test my faith. I will be honest when everyone feels they need to deceive. I will never let any pain, hardship, scorn or...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The Art and Science of Teaching
techniques” is Lemov himself, according to a lengthy article on teaching in the New York Times Magazine in which Lemov was featured (March 7, 2010). And no one is more surprised than Lemov at his own success. Noting that a Myers-Briggs personality View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
financial markets change the interaction between banks and corporations? This paper compares the importance of interlocking boards of directors between corporations and banks in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1909. The hypothesis View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
"Of course it would be a different story entirely if we could extract crude oil from stem cells." © Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again government funding of human embryonic...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
You Have to Save to Win
Playing off the popularity of lottery games, HBS professor Peter Tufano has designed a savings program called “Save to Win,” now being tested at eight credit unions in Michigan. To participate, individuals open a one-year certificate of...
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- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
manufacturer can increase profits and reduce inventory risks. To demonstrate that improvement, we ran a computer simulation that tests various inventory policies for three groups of SKUs in the same product line — one group with low...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
which manufactures solar-paneled generators that require only minimal diesel to help recharge their batteries. In Iraq, “I’d see huge generators running all the time but powering very little,” Moorehead said. “We take it from running 24 hours down to 4 or 5 hours a...
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- 02 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?
pledge of honesty is a way of effectively linking identity to morality." Testing Honesty The research team conducted a series of experiments in which participants could benefit financially from dishonest self-reporting. In each case, the...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
will also explain the range of responsibilities and qualities advisors can look for in identifying potentialcandidates. Bulletin: The School has reintroduced the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) as an element of the admissions...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
opportunities, impact, and risks of GenAI. Several of these research efforts are highlighted below. Karim Lakhani Karim Lakhani Edward McFowland III Edward McFowland III How Will Generative AI Change Consulting? To test the capabilities...
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April White
- Portrait Project
Charles Duhigg
eyes. I'm initially untrusting. I probe the corners to test if it's true. And then, as relief finally settles in, I greedily peer around a world in perfect focus. For a few minutes, before minutiae renders me sightless again, I see...
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- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Sal Khan Goes Back to School
the classroom, in the form of Khan Lab School, an educational “R&D lab” in Mountain View, California. The fact that the school goes year-round – meaning there’s no summer vacation, kids – is just the beginning of how different the program is here. In addition to View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Visionary leadership won’t get you to innovation
own, willingness is not enough; leaders also must foster specific capabilities—the ability to generate a marketplace of ideas through discourse and debate, to test and refine ideas through quick experiments, and to make decisions that...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
No Nukes
Often overshadowed by higher-profile conflicts, North Korea’s nuclear intentions have concerned the United States for many years. Now it is a high-stakes test of diplomacy in which China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea have joined the two...
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Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
of them being the first of their kind on the market, including typewriters, automatic summary punches, test scoring machines and others. IBM’s biggest achievement however, came when it introduced its first computer in 1952, well behind...
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Computers & Electronics
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HBX Launched - Annual Report 2014
tested and graded, and those who complete the program successfully receive an official CORe credential and transcript, which is held by the HBX registrar and made available to employers or schools at a participant’s request. Tuition for...
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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through View Details
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by Danielle Kost