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Marie Kyle

three months, I knew there was no way I could leave so soon." She took an eighteen-month operations role establishing pediatric HIV testing and treatment programs, then worked for another eighteen months in New York as a strategic... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region

Takeuchi’s decision to embark on the inaugural Japan trip involved a realistic assessment of both the logistical challenges and educational opportunities of the experience. But taking students to a disaster area entailed unprecedented planning. “It was an amazing... View Details

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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

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

line.” Bernstein believes the key to breaking that cycle may lie in research partnerships that help organizations conduct more field experiments. Just as many companies test out new products with “a/b” testing, they might also take an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2024
News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details

Keywords: April White

October 2013
Case

FasterCures: Removing Barriers to Treatments

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and James Weber

In mid-2013, as FasterCures celebrated its 10th anniversary as a center of the Milken Institute, Executive Director Margaret Anderson thought about what the organization should do to ensure it had even more impact in its next 10 years. FasterCures was a non-profit... View Details

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22 Feb 2022
News

Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect

programs, Beshears says. “There are a lot of researchers who are champing at the bit for ways to test these ideas in the real world, and we always hope that partnerships like these can lead to benefits that both sides can enjoy.” “Using... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

basically sat down together and brainstormed creepy questions to ask," John says. The experiments tested the idea that downplaying privacy concerns would increase the likelihood of disclosure. For example, the researchers set up laptop... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Avi Kremer

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

Keywords: Health Care; Entrepreneurship

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

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

team's knowledge-integration capability. We test our theoretical framework using data on knowledge workers in professional services and discuss implications for research and practice. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales

attractive one first or second?” Note to readers: As they continue their research, Ferreira and Goh would like to team up with retailers to test their models in real-world settings. If you think your company might benefit from empirical... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Fashion

28 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

Doctors are afraid of getting sued. According to some accounts, 75 percent of them perform more tests and procedures than necessary to avoid potential lawsuits over medical malpractice. The phenomenon of “defensive medicine” has been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies

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

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

in figure 1-2 of the real CG movie-making process. Since innovation is a problem-solving process, it's really about searching for a solution by creating and testing a portfolio of ideas. It often takes time even to frame a problem in the... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation

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

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

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

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