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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
In April, Dean Kim B. Clark announced that Harvard Business School will add the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) to the portfolio of criteria used to evaluate a candidate's application to the MBA Program, effective for... View Details
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Comparison of Output with Hours of Sleep – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Back to Exhibit Page Comparison of Output with Hours of Sleep First Relay Assembly Test Group, ca. 1930 Western Electric Company Hawthorne Studies Collection © 2007 President and Fellows of Harvard College;... View Details
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
reduce the gap between strategy and execution? Does the BSC work in testing strategy? How Can The Balanced Scorecard Improve Corporate Governance? Working Paper: Improving Corporate Governance with the Balanced Scorecard The authors... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Teradyne: Testing Opportunity In 1994, Teradyne, a leading provider of machines that test the quality of microprocessors and other integrated circuits as they come off the assembly line, saw an opportunity... View Details
- 31 Jan 2016
- News
Studios Back App, Hoping to Fill Cinema Seats
to keep testing it,” said Mr. Bakal, adding that variable pricing won't be among the company’s offerings when it launches nationwide. Atom Tickets has been operating in three test markets since April, where... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
be able to do computational prediction for creating a top 20 list of antisense oligos. With those, we can test them against his cell line. So as part of the biopsy, in phase one, we establish a cell line. What that is, is it’s taking... View Details
- March 2016 (Revised March 2022)
- Teaching Note
Evive Health and Workplace Influenza Vaccinations
By: John Beshears
Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from behavioral economics, Evive deploys targeted and effective messages that improve individuals' health... View Details
Keywords: Vaccination; Influenza; Flu Shot; Preventive Care; Health Care; Behavioral Economics; Choice Architecture; Nudge; Experimental Design; Randomized Controlled Trial; RCT; Causal Inference; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Health; Consumer Behavior; Health Testing and Trials; Communication Strategy; Insurance Industry; Health Industry
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
the grasp of anyone who made it through high school chemistry. But effective experimentation is often poorly understood in practice, Liedtka says, and businesses that test their ideas without a solid understanding of experimental design... View Details
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From Concept to Product: Meroë Morse and Polaroid’s Culture of Art and Innovation, 1945–1969 | Baker Library
Black and White Photographic Research, director of Special Photographic Research, a trusted advisor to Land, and liaison to Ansel Adams, a Polaroid consultant who tested the company’s prototype cameras and films. Morse embodied the... View Details
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Tools | New Venture Competition
address high level legal issues that New Venture Competition business plan entrants might have, and practical advice for starting a business. Legal Aspects of Starting a Social Enterprise, Powerpoint Deck February 2017 Play Video duration: 1:01:01 View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
and a profile that varies by situation and according to the patient’s life stage.” Patient Empowerment Taken Too Far? As an example of patient empowerment—and a glimpse at its potential problems—Quelch talked about taking the 23andMe test, a saliva-based... View Details
Joseph M. Segel
A prolific entrepreneur, Segel has founded many successful companies including The Franklin Mint and National Software testing Laboratories. His biggest success was the formation of QVC, which stands for quality, value and convenience.... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 06 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment
execution mode and test the options to learn. For example, when I was researching the sales prospecting process, there were many software systems to choose from. Rather than spend weeks, even days, researching between them, we View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
product (MVP) one could imagine, and I’m very grateful for the advice. Our extensive MVP testing at corporate offices allowed us to validate key assumptions of our business model and value proposition, e.g. more than 70% of our users... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
achieve.” Mikitani expected that the initial global English-only conversion would be difficult. “This is going to be a long-term effort for us,” he states in the case. “Starting this month, my own speech will simply be in English.” All Rakuten workers were required to... View Details
Jean Riboud
Riboud is credited with building the world’s leading oilfield testing company. During his tenure, he produced a 19-fold increase in revenue (to $6.4 billion) and a 44-fold increase in earnings (to $1.2 billion), often producing results... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- July 2009
- Teaching Note
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis (TN)
By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [408003]. View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
30-minute credit test is based on research in psychometrics conducted at Harvard’s Center for International Development to help lenders understand both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. The questions on the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Oct 2019
- News
Building a Tradition of Giving
Barry Sternlicht (MBA 1986) Barry Sternlicht (MBA 1986) Over time and experience, Barry Sternlicht (MBA 1986) has developed an approach to philanthropy that bridges both his professional and personal lives, delivering impact to both. He first started focusing on giving... View Details
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High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details