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- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
nuclear designs are subject to rigorous casualty testing and national licensing, there is no reason to think of nuclear power any differently than we think of other technologies and their use in civil society, such as civil aircraft and...
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- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
2.5 weeks). Count the petals, are there really 60? Image source: The authors. Five years ago, the brothers started to test the optimal intensity and spectrum of LED lighting on rose cultivation in an experimental site, recognizing that...
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- 19 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations
there we hand-collected past education of analysts and matched these to past education of board members and senior officers of firms. These 1,800+ analysts represent those from the entire universe of analysts from 1990 to 2006 on which we could find education data. To...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Effective Leadership and Decision-Making
down to allow moral instincts to emerge); "Pick your battles" (don't waste political capital on lost causes); "Bend the rules, don't break them" (in order to resolve a complicated dilemma); and "Find a compromise" (view situations as prone to responsible and workable...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
20, 2007, while Gisholt, Minard, and their three young daughters were waiting in line for Test Track, an auto-testing simulation that advises riders to “Strap yourself in to race up bumpy terrain, roar through hairpin turns, speed into...
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- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
children. Volvo's latest goal is that no one should die in a Volvo car after 2020. Most firms just quietly test their products and services, receiving the blessing of Underwriters Laboratories, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or...
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- Profile
Marie Kyle
three months, I knew there was no way I could leave so soon." She took an eighteen-month operations role establishing pediatric HIV testing and treatment programs, then worked for another eighteen months in New York as a strategic...
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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
Takeuchi’s decision to embark on the inaugural Japan trip involved a realistic assessment of both the logistical challenges and educational opportunities of the experience. But taking students to a disaster area entailed unprecedented planning. “It was an amazing...
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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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- Web
2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Discrimination: Joint versus Separate Decision Making Corinne Moss-Racusin , Skidmore College Testing Interventions to Reduce Gender Bias in STEM Fields Emilio Castilla , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A bold experiment in education
college acceptance rate and sent the highest percentage of its graduates to college in the city, excluding selective-admissions schools. Most recently, in 2013, NOCP took over the operation of the lowest-performing elementary school in New Orleans and achieved the...
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- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
have a higher probability of walking by the clinic for reasons other than vaccination. Method: We obtained data from an employer with a free workplace influenza vaccination clinic. Using each employee’s building entry/exit swipe card data, we View Details
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- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
basically sat down together and brainstormed creepy questions to ask," John says. The experiments tested the idea that downplaying privacy concerns would increase the likelihood of disclosure. For example, the researchers set up laptop...
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by Carmen Nobel
- July 2021 (Revised July 2022)
- Case
Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Navraj S. Nagra and Syed S. Shehab
Dr. Andrea Pusic, breast cancer reconstruction surgeon, wants to extend outcomes measurement beyond traditional surgical metrics of infections, complications, and survival rates. The case describes her development of a new mobile phone app, which collects patients’...
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Kaplan, Robert S., Navraj S. Nagra, and Syed S. Shehab. "Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care." Harvard Business School Case 122-010, July 2021. (Revised July 2022.)
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Why I’m Donating One Billion Dollars to Save the Planet
million acres of land and water in Africa, South America, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the United States. “We need to embrace the radical, time-tested and profoundly democratic idea of public-land protection that was invented in the United States, View Details
- Portrait Project
Jason George
ever experienced anything unbearable in her life. Her answer was immediate, and unequivocal: Nothing at all. So I will reflect, and find joy in such simplicity. I will recognize that the unheralded and seemingly ordinary is often far more worthy than the celebrated. I...
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- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
moderate-income families (LMI) families were given the option of redirecting some of their refund to savings? Would they take advantage? The Tax Test Tufano and a cross-sector team of nonprofit and private sector organizations explored...
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- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, “whether that means talking to customers about where the pain points are or talking to clients about new opportunities.” Good entrepreneurs use these kinds of conversations all the time to generate...
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by Michael Blanding
- 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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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
educate people about the Coronavirus and offer advice on testing and treatment. He’s now involved in “supporting the scaling [of] a COVID-19 testing prototype for faster/quicker View Details