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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

advancement of corporate sustainability scholarship and practice.” Michael W. Toffel : Winner (with Matthew Johnson and David I. Levine) of the 2014 Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy Grant Competition on the subject of “Demonstrating How Low-Cost View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Sector More Info Exchange Arrangements Entering the 21st Century: Which Anchor Will Hold? By: Ethan Ilzetzki, Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff FEB 2017 Noted economists- Ilzetzki, Reinhart, and Rogoff- provide a comprehensive history of anchor currencies and capital... View Details

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

providing the funds to help others make or build something, and it helped me recognize that I wanted to be in a company that produced or manufactured something directly. It also showed me the trials as well as the benefits of a small... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

13 Mar 2023
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Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

or from the smokestacks of industrial processes and eliminate it by mineralizing it in peridotite. To do that, we combine CO2 with water and then inject it into seams of peridotite deep underground. There, we can control variables like... View Details

02 Aug 2020
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Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

beginning of an experimental revolution,” fueled by data, that has become more available using online platforms that make randomization cheaper and easier. These have fueled a greater appreciation for how experiments can “help to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

than something that has or certainly will happen. "There is the possibility that something bad could happen, and a sense that you don't have control over it," Brooks explains. The Anxious Mind While a little bit of anxiety can... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

percent more likely to hire women as partners for VC funds—the equivalent of a random distribution of gender diversity. “We could then identify the component of gender diversity caused exclusively by having a daughter uncorrelated to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Accenture). He became a partner in 1976, specializing in the development of financial control and operating systems in retail and banking industries. In 1985, Gates began to develop commercial and residential real estate. His first... View Details

28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research

Illustration by Joe Waldron Illustration by Joe Waldron Back in 2010, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole embarked on a two-year randomized control trial with Nilesh Fernando,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

control healthcare costs through better prevention. For instance, in 2014 the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all adults over 65 receive a dose of Prevnar 13, a... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management

of work that tells a very different story. In randomized control trials all over the world, instead of giving access to a loan, a one-time cash grant was found to have... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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Pharmaceuticals: Pipeline

member states and European Economic Area and clinical trials which are conducted outside the EU/EEA if they form part of a pediatric investigation plan. May use the Advanced search function for efficient searching. International Clinical... View Details

10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Foundation, was preparing to launch a new type of clinical trial—an adaptive platform trial—to study potential therapies for glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain cancer. Alexander believed that the standard way in which new cancer drugs were tested—the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2024
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After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

the preferred testing ground for Phase 1 clinical trials of new drugs, the benefits of massive R&D spending and economic throw-offs are being enjoyed elsewhere, primarily in the United States and in an increasingly competitive Asia.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

money using their mobile phones. Mobile money has grown quickly, but high stockout rates of currency persist due to suboptimal inventory decisions made by contracted employees (called agents). In partnership with a Tanzanian mobile money operator, we perform a View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 May 2016
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When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

research, they defined a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people, other than the shooter(s), are unlawfully fatally shot in a single incident not related to gangs, drugs, organized crime, or domestic disputes. “In other words, we focus on the types of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

Experiment By: Cole, Shawn, Xavier Giné, and James Vickery Abstract—Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled View Details