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- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
2011, using cooperative and competitive scenarios in which participants performed both a verbal and a math test at Harvard Business School's Computer Lab for Experimental Research. Each participant was given a pseudonym, with women... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
of all the others. After we built and implemented a software tool to make demand predictions and optimize prices, we ran a field experiment to test the impact of our tool and saw a 10 percent revenue increase in the View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lindsay Rosenblum
understanding of my “learning disability” morphed into a deep, irrational belief that I was a fraud, had cheated the system, and fooled the tester not just that day in 2002, but when I was tested again in 2006, 2010, and 2014. I don’t... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity
that are ideal for testing software as well as for working in cybersecurity and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says, adding Dandelion has been... View Details
- 04 Sep 2014
- News
Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS
could convince them that ALS is a good investment, market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do.” In 2011 and 2012, Prize4Life awarded million-dollar prizes for tests that measure the disease’s progression... View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
advantage in a world of impatient investors, restive employees, and demanding customers? Do they require leaders who have fewer answers, more questions, and a bias for testing and quick action? Are investors, employees, and customers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Aditya Dhanrajani
for its maiden test drive. As I got in, the car gave way to my weight and collapsed. Later, in my engineering classes, I learned that I had executed a "catastrophic failure," but I had already learned the bigger lesson that day... View Details
- Fast Answer
Job interview preparation
interviewer and interviewee, and information on interviewing techniques including group interview testing and panel interviewing. While the site originates from the U.K., information is relevant for business interview situations... View Details
- 30 Jun 2016
- News
Sal Khan Takes Innovation Offline
multiple languages on subjects ranging from trigonometry to grammar to organic chemistry. In addition to its recent partnership with the College Board to offer free SAT test prep, the organization also educates students at its... View Details
- May 1999 (Revised July 2000)
- Teaching Note
Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care TN
By: Jody H. Gittell and Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Note for (9-898-172). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details
- Profile
Rachel Silverstein
the timing never felt right." At the same time, her career was progressing. After five years with two corporate giants, Dell and American Express, she tested the startup waters. "I had an itch to do something entrepreneurial,... 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... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
saw this effect in the modeling world, but I wanted to test it in the real world,” says Chung, an assistant professor. “The best way to do that was to perform a field experiment.” For real-world proof of how quotas affect sales... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel