Testing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
News

HBS Seeks Deeper Ties with China

Chinese managers — not only because we need to write relevant cases to teach, but also because the participants test our thinking in real-time.” The Harvard Center Shanghai, located in the city’s booming Pudong district (see “The Scene”),... View Details

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

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

that researchers face when demonstrating the existence and effects of resale price maintenance (RPM). We outline three approaches for finding price effects of RPM and the corresponding hurdles in data and methodology. We show that the quantity View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Project Runway

test of fashion creativity and skill under time constraints and other pressures. “The cameras are on you from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed,” Estrella told the San Francisco Chronicle (July 9, 2006). “My approach was... View Details

Keywords: Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

tools can be applied. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50595 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on Standardized View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1997
News

New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence

case studies used in the course came alive instantly, and the classroom visits by some of the cases' protagonists were enthusiastically received. Furthermore, the program's structure - two three-week units (one in March and one in May) - enables participants to... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

Portrait Project

Athena Ko

keep painting fences for inner city redevelopment. I will continue to believe though the sufferings around me severely test my faith. I will be honest when everyone feels they need to deceive. I will never let any pain, hardship, scorn or... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

The Art and Science of Teaching

techniques” is Lemov himself, according to a lengthy article on teaching in the New York Times Magazine in which Lemov was featured (March 7, 2010). And no one is more surprised than Lemov at his own success. Noting that a Myers-Briggs personality View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Haynes (MBA 2023) Furman Haynes 27 Jun 2022 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore... Social Enterprise Summer Fellowships for Exploration and Testing 22 Jun 2022 For HBS... View Details

29 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

buyouts on target firms and their workers vary greatly by deal type and market conditions. Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing An analysis of the adoption of A/B testing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2010
News

New Orleans Resonance

A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA ’05) moved to New York, intending to open a charter school. After Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans’s dire need compelled Kleban to decamp to Louisiana, where he founded New Orleans College Prep (NOCP).... View Details

Keywords: charter schools

01 Feb 1999
News

Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease

could not bear the thought of two young babies with this disease." The test proved positive, however, and last fall Patrick had just begun to show the first telltale signs of muscle weakness. Meanwhile, Megan, recently hospitalized with... View Details

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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Bearing engineer and his three dimensional graph - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

science can point with precision to the specific lubricant which will give best possible service. Hitherto considered dry and abstract to the layman, such work saves years of hit and miss testing in the driving of many cars to arrive at... View Details

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Making Kraft mayonnaise - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

combines its skill with that of expert production men to assure unvarying highest quality. There is no guesswork in making Kraft Mayonnaise. Ingredients are purchased on laboratory specifications. They are blended with more than human accuracy. The finished product is... View Details

13 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

maybe they don’t. Why don’t we collaborate on an experiment testing their impact?” That was music to Donaker’s ears. Yelp had run experiments to optimize advertisements and had consultants try to figure out the impact of ads. But in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

04 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19

previous recessions with our current students. Offered a full-time data science course over the summer for students to invest in themselves. The course culminated with students putting their skills to the test at the end of the summer... View Details

Student-Profile

A Jay Holmgren

assisted with his father’s care. “I had this gigantic binder of test results that I would have to fax to different specialists and providers,” he explains. “I thought to myself, ‘Why do I still have this physical folder? Why don’t we have... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas

start-up in Bangalore cofounded by CEO Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011), has developed a mobile phone attachment that will enable patients to test their blood sugar and seamlessly transmit the results to a physician or nurse for appropriate... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

forecasts and activity-based costing); and test and update the strategy (using carefully designed management meetings to review operational and strategic data). Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal about the Minds of Consumers... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

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