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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
- 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
- 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
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
children. Volvo's latest goal is that no one should die in a Volvo car after 2020. Most firms just quietly test their products and services, receiving the blessing of Underwriters Laboratories, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or... View Details
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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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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
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Mi Zhou
had little time for strategy. I helped him delegate authority and develop reporting relationships that would allow him to focus on the big picture.” Testing interests After five years with McKinsey, Mi found “what I really enjoy –... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Where Are They Now?
driven to test my ideas in real-world settings.” And might he one day teach again? “I’ve never planned to do anything I’ve done, so the notion of planning to be doing something else does not register. Which means, who knows?” View Details
- 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 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
of all the others. After we built and implemented a software tool to make demand predictions and optimize prices, we ran a field experiment to test the impact of our tool and saw a 10 percent revenue increase in the View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
that does not center on public destruction of value, a notion that managers reject in surveys. Supportive new tests involve nominal levels and changes of dividends per share, announcement effects, and reference point currencies of ADR... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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They keep the milk cool - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 next They keep the milk cool ca. 1933 Kraft–Phenix Cheese Corporation Photographer unknown Two of the large, glass-lined, brine-cooled... View Details
- 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 09 Oct 2018
HBX Business Analytics
Develop a data mindset and the analytical skills to interpret and communicate data. This course will demystify data analysis and equip you with concrete skills to apply in your work or further studies. Program Dates: October 9, 2018 - December 6, 2018 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
- 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
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
single-site projects, related to dividing tasks, sharing artifacts, and coordinating and integrating work. Rarely does a firm's default process adequately address these activities. Effective approaches are discovered through informed trial and error, using pilot... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne