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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog

startup ideas—is challenging. Signals are biased and noisy. Designing experiments is non-trivial, and running tests is expensive. Failure is hard to admit and learn from. Getting to and listening to feedback is challenging. The ideas with... View Details

22 Nov 2024
News

Deep Reading

Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Oct 1996
News

The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions

will also explain the range of responsibilities and qualities advisors can look for in identifying potentialcandidates. Bulletin: The School has reintroduced the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) as an element of the admissions... View Details

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy over a two- year period. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

of them being the first of their kind on the market, including typewriters, automatic summary punches, test scoring machines and others. IBM’s biggest achievement however, came when it introduced its first computer in 1952, well behind... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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

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

2009
Case

Innovamedica: Innovation in an Emerging Market

By: Roberto Charvel, Fernando Fabre and T. Putimahtama

Innovamedica was a medical start up with several state of the art devices such as a silicon substitute heart and other inventions. However, the founding scientist was struggling in attracting talent and fundraising and that had an impact on growth. View Details

Keywords: Biotech; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Start-up; Emergent Countries; Business Startups; Talent and Talent Management; Design; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Managerial Roles; Biotechnology Industry; Latin America; North and Central America

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01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high cost of drug development—as much... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

01 Jun 2020
News

The Network Effect

coronavirus. Kapoor was tested and by the time he received the results nine days later, they confirmed what he already knew: he had COVID-19 (and so did his wife, a physician, and two of his four kids). Kapoor’s View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2013
News

Geisha Secrets

TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan... View Details

Keywords: skincare; beauty products; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

Career Coach

Tim Kluska

recruiting process. Tim can provide career path clarification, resume refinement, helpful context on all finance-adjacent industries, and the step-by-step inside baseball on IB networking. In addition, Tim can conduct mock IB interviews on all View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise

dinner party. Is it work colleagues? Is it college friends? [So] you know what to wear, what to say, what not to say.” “I love the zeitgeist. ...I’m the first one to download the new music on Tuesdays. I’m the first one to download some new crazy app and View Details

Profile

Joseph Blair

It’s difficult to imagine Joe Blair standing still. A triathlete, currently training for a “half-Ironman” in the summer of 2013, Joe runs self-timed marathons. In his former life as an engineer, he took a great deal of pleasure tooling around the View Details

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Prompt-a-thon Invites HBS IT Staff to Sharpen GenAI Skills | Information Technology

test their prompting skills. Teams had 50 minutes to work on GenAI prompts and prepare a quick-fire presentation to share their outcomes with the rest of the group. Whether designing a system using data analytics to predict alumni... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership

allow participants to test on the job what they have learned. The program's first cohort of 63 participants met in August and early this month; a second cohort will begin in January. HBS faculty members teaching in the program include... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Hawes Hall Groundbreaking

will share architectural similarities with campus buildings designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White in the 1920s. Hawes Hall will house eight classrooms equipped with state-of-the-art technology that will, in Clark's words, "stand the View Details

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

01 Feb 2002
News

Replicating Toyota's Success

itself is also unique. Rather than adopting the first good idea, workers create iterative, structured experiments to test hypotheses and foster continuous learning. The result is a workforce that can explore problems independently, an... View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

implemented a tried and tested tool to help contain infectious disease: human-led contact tracing, the process of tracking down and notifying individuals who have been exposed to the illness. Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) used... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

19 Jan 2024
News

Blockchain for Good

eco-friendly consensus algorithm. She says they have also tested the first public stablecoin backed entirely by cash. “Our mission is for everyone in the world to experience the benefits of a truly digital financial ecosystem,” she... View Details

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