Hypothesis Testing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Calculate sample statistics and apply the properties of the normal distribution Calculate confidence intervals to estimate the accuracy of statistics 8 hrs Module 3 Hypothesis Testing Quantify the evidence... View Details

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Jean Luo

entrepreneurship Jean’s third reason for attending HBS: “I've always had a hypothesis that I wanted to start my own company; over time, I felt more and more strongly about it.” Despite three years in San Francisco, Jean still hadn’t View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Tech

01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

tested positive for strep throat, were prescribed the antibiotic amoxicillin, and gradually started to improve. “And then,” Rodakis says, “my life changed.” His son had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) earlier that year,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

compel banks to recapitalize. More Info Interest Rate Conundrums in the Twenty-First Century By: Samuel G. Hanson , David O. Lucca & Jonathan Wright MAR 2017 The standard expectation hypothesis posits that long term interest rates are... View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

industry. Show Hide Details Modules Describing and Summarizing Data Sampling and Estimation Hypothesis Testing Single Variable Linear Regression Multiple Regression Featured Exercises Determine sample size... View Details

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

unconscious thought (UT), more so than after conscious thought (CT). We aimed to test the hypothesis that UT decreases intrusions and increases conceptual organization in memory. Methods. Participants were... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

answer is yes. The founder’s early fascination with innovation proved key because he remains an active inventor with many patents to his name. Bezos has been known to view Amazon as “a technology company pioneering e-commerce, not a retailer.” We decided to View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough, and Anne N. Thorndike Publication:American Journal of Preventive Medicine 43, no. 1 (September 2012) Abstract Background: Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority and low-income individuals.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2019
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Creating the Experimentation Organization

biggest problems in innovation is that it can generate uncertainty, says Thomke. Even in an age of Big Data, companies are stymied by the fact that they don’t know what they don’t know. “If something is very novel, there is little data around it to use.” Using... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

companies would see positive performance results by emphasizing employee individuality from day one, testing their hypothesis through a series of field and lab experiments. For starters, they conducted a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

younger faculty may begin to migrate to this research area. Earlier trends in academia toward quantification and hypothesis testing may partially explain why leadership studies fell out of favor in recent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

MAR 2017 The standard expectation hypothesis posits that long term interest rates are expected sum of all the short term interest rates between issuance and maturity. Researchers Hanson, Lucca, and Wright document that the correlation of... View Details

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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Artful Leadership When she arrived at HBS, Meredith “Max” Hodges (MBA 2010) already knew that she wanted to be the director of a nonprofit cultural organization. “I think that was the first line of my application essay,” she says, adding, “I had plenty of opportunity... View Details

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Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

reaching higher productivity. Attracting FDI, generating jobs, and growing exports are positive implications of higher productivity. But the ultimate test of whether policies are effective is their impact on prosperity. And here... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

vinyl record sectors, has been studying the independent bookstore for the past five years. After more than 200 interviews with bookstore owners, authors, and publishers, he has developed a hypothesis for their unexpected renaissance: They... View Details

Keywords: April White

Portrait Project

Valentina Zarya

ended in puberty, but my hair tells the real story. It’s been a dozen different colors over the years: Raven black during a goth phase in high school; varying shades of copper in college; and blonde to test the “they have more fun” View Details

13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

is a devastating disease that leaves cognitive abilities intact, but robs people of their ability to move, essentially making them prisoners in their own bodies,” Blum says. “The therapeutic hypothesis with tirasemtiv relates to slowing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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

28 May 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)

hindsight everything seems to follow an ordered path, but in truth, I didn’t have a master plan. I’ve done things because I believed they would make me smarter and because I was passionate about them, whether that’s physics or running a car company or IDEO or GV. The... View Details