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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Pens Down
Illustration by Dan Page In May, on the eve of the HBS application season, MBA Admissions director Dee Leopold (MBA 1980) announced a change for Class of 2016 hopefuls. There would be only one essay question: In addition to your résumé, View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
implications of many car body structures, more than they could afford to test with actual cars.4 But experimentation, though important, is only part of what is achieved by cheap and rapid iteration. If you think and talk about iteration... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- Portrait Project
Drew Johnson
you served them in their moment of greatest need. Through our actions we can do things that transcend the test of time—actions that stand up to any storm. View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public
sense of excitement on campus these days is palpable as this year's graduates prepare to test their newly acquired skills and ideas in a universe of expanding innovation and opportunity, the likes of which the world has not witnessed for... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
In Zambia and Uganda, it partnered with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and the Ministries of Health to test new policies in HIV, malaria, and maternal health. IDinsight has also worked in Cambodia and Rwanda and in other sectors... View Details
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Fumi Tamaki
jitters, really made me feel welcome and at ease. There’s a spirit of generosity here that’s very strong.” Inspired by her own experience, Fumi has served as the admissions rep for her own section this year. “I want to do my best to give back, to pass on the kindness.”... View Details
- February 2020
- Teaching Note
Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A) and (B)
By: Nien-he Hsieh and Christina R. Wing
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 619-039 and 320-091. View Details
- November 2009 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
Managing Drugs on the Forefront of Personalized Medicine: The Erbitux and Vectibix Story
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Raju Kucherlapati and Rachel Gordon
In May 2007, Amgen Inc. (Amgen) received disappointing news from the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) that its drug Vectibix, developed to fight metastatic colorectal cancer, had been rejected. This was especially surprising news given that a similar rival drug had... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Genetics; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., Raju Kucherlapati, and Rachel Gordon. "Managing Drugs on the Forefront of Personalized Medicine: The Erbitux and Vectibix Story." Harvard Business School Case 810-066, November 2009. (Revised March 2010.)
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Reapplicants | MBA
to complete the current application in its entirety. A valid Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is a prerequisite for admission; the GMAT or GRE test needs to be... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
(GFS), designed for Google web searches. One team, called Big Table, argued for adding systems on top of GFS; the other team, called Build from Scratch, wanted to replace GFS entirely. Coughran decided to give the two teams space to defend their ideas, letting them... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
voting. Moss offers a simple analogy: Imagine you want to test a theory that punches cause stomachaches. If you examine the data and find that some people get punched without getting stomachaches, and that others get stomachaches without... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
Andresen's 1986 departure). Andresen took time out to attend Harvard's Advanced Management Program in 1974 in order "to test my standards of management," he says. "I had been working nonstop for over five years and felt the need to take... View Details
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Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library
Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos Photo: Meroe Morse, test photograph by Laurie Seamans, Type 42, ca. 1950s. Polaroid Corporation Records, Photographs of Polaroid Consultant Photographers, b. XI.9, f. 1. In 1968, Smith College presented... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
in January, when nearly the entire class of 905 traveled to one of 12 cities in 10 countries for a weeklong immersion to test their ideas in the local marketplace, make adjustments as needed, and deliver a final proposal to their global... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
front-line workers who voice concerns and share ideas about how to solve problems. Our study is among the first to develop and empirically test theory about how specific management practices can encourage employees to speak up about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
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
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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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
grow up in home environments that complement investments in human capital,” the authors state. “You can’t fix it by simply reducing credit constraints and giving people more access to funds,” Kominers says, adding that the researchers View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief
best way to intelligently and successfully test and launch innovative corporate growth strategies. Through vivid stories from all walks of life, Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading, by Ronald A. Heifetz... View Details