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01 Sep 2007
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The Old Heave-Ho

First-year students let off a little end-of-the-year steam at the RC Olympics, held on campus last May. Sections competed against each other, testing their strength and agility in events such as dodgeball, wheelbarrow and three-legged... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

October 2013
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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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01 Dec 2003
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Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth

growth and is interested in testing and refining its model in new locations; or when a nonprofit has less ambitious, less geographically dispersed expansion plans. We were not surpised that our research suggests that there is no single,... View Details

23 Jan 2019
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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

26 Sep 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

was to focus not on the feasibility of the solution but on the attractiveness. With a full portfolio of potential solutions we set back out into the field, creating rudimentary prototypes to elicit reactions directly from refugees and IRC caseworkers. When View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Complements to the Case Method

industry or region, and then going out and testing them in real life, that students can find those tiny gaps where it’s wrong— and where they can leverage with smart investments. “We don’t want the course to just be about polishing... View Details

16 Dec 2020
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Our Favorite Stories of 2020

Can This Man Change the American Diet? Clover Food Lab takes a transparent approach to bringing its unique style of vegetarian, fast-casual food to customers. In this episode of Skydeck, we meet Ayr Muir, Clover’s founder, and listen in on a food development meeting... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | MBA

Frequently Asked Questions MD / MBA If I am interested in pursuing the MD/MBA Program, when do I apply? When should I take the GMAT or GRE? Is one test preferred over the other? Is there a target test score?... View Details

Arthur C. Dorrance

phenomenal success. The Campbell Test Kitchen opened in 1940, and under Dorrance’s leadership, Campbell home economists developed recipes using condensed soups, many of which have become classics. View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

published. An equally eager audience of financial advisors, portfolio managers and securities traders awaited the option pricing model. In the same year that Merton published his article on option pricing theory (1973), the Chicago Board Options Exchange opened and... View Details

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The Formula - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

there. Over the next several years, these three economists both independently and collaboratively created option pricing theory. Early empirical tests of what became known as the Black-Scholes formula were published in 1972. The... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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No Small Beer

often it is ruined by improper storage, handling, or service," says Daniels, who started the program in 2008. "We teach and test the right way to do things—and also cover beer history, culture, and a solid understanding of flavor." So... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; craft beer; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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Success Academy Charter Schools | Information Technology

Development and Research test caption Previous test caption Previous Next test caption Previous Next More Featured Cases The Reinvention of Kodak Professor Ryan Raffaelli, Dave... View Details

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

testing in Canada, and how Canadian hospitals handled surges and so on,” says club president Kazi Ahmed “It was a great opportunity for our club to strengthen our relationship with the Cleveland Clinic.” According to the club’s board... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Aug 2016
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Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets

In emerging markets, where traditional credit scores are rare, how can lenders decide who is creditworthy? Just ask, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the for-profit Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. The company has developed a 20- to... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths

developments. Myth #3: Intermediaries are dead. Intermediaries are a fact of life to some degree, Bezos asserted. The litmus test will be who adds value and who doesn't. Myth #4: There are going to be only a few winners in the Internet... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Porter Directs New Institute at HBS

and a number of other areas, the ISC seeks to develop new theory, assemble bodies of data to test and apply theory, and share its ideas broadly with business, government, academia, and nongovernmental organizations. The institute also... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Feb 2011
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Healthy Growth

has been chairman and CEO of IDEXX, a Maine-based firm that develops diagnostics and information technology for veterinarians, as well as testing technologies that ensure safe water, milk, and livestock production. According to the... View Details

Keywords: veterinary medicine; Health, Social Assistance

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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

Research in Black and White Photo: Meroe Morse, test photograph, August 1959. Polaroid Corporation Records Related to Meroe Morse, b. VII.83, f. 15. In 1948, only a few years after starting at Polaroid, Meroë Morse became the laboratory... View Details

26 Sep 2019
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What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

day.” Testing the unique benefits of work By all accounts, overcrowding, extreme poverty, and the experience of forced displacement inside the camps has taken a profound toll. Doctors Without Borders has provided almost 1.4 million... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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