Testing - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests

Professor Michael Luca and Daniel Svirsky, a doctoral student at HBS. “However, these features may also facilitate discrimination based on sellers' race, gender, age, or other characteristics.” To test for racial discrimination among... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services

15 Nov 2020
News

Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

leaders an opportunity to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous yet supportive environment.” This year, the $75,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Grand Prize was awarded to Mosaic, a health care data... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

In Pursuit of Academia

consultant at A.T. Kearney in Lisbon, Fernandes decided to try out the alternative career she would consider as a final test of her calling to academia, so between her MBA years she interned in the human capital division at Deloitte... View Details

19 Sep 2019
News

Predicting Human Behaviors

spreadsheet of startups that the i-lab created.” Today, Boston-based Perceptive Automata is working with suppliers and automakers in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and the technology is in testing in autonomous vehicles and highly... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2017
News

The End of the Noncompete Clause

full-fledged union in its midst, Johnson says. EARN’s first test run came during EMC’s recent acquisition by Dell. Johnson orchestrated a pop-up union for EMC’s employees. While the company didn’t publicly acknowledge EARN’s efforts,... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

01 Jun 1998
News

HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work

their efforts was a weekend seminar held in January that was an enjoyable combination of academic discussion, public service, and relaxation. The event centered on three new case studies on companies situated near the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

HBS Honors Four Alumni

saying that he hoped to elicit from the award winners some of their “accumulated knowledge and insight.” Then came his “wisdom” cold call, directed to Sir Ronald Cohen. After noting that he would be wise to avoid answering such a question, Cohen observed that wisdom... View Details

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

01 Aug 2001
News

T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

summer employment to take a road trip across America. Captivated by the country, he decided to stay on after graduation; in 1961, he became a U.S. citizen. Dunphy was recruited by Westinghouse Electric and worked in various marketing and management roles. But after... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management

01 Jun 2005
News

The Nature of Change

members of the Class of 1949 describe their changing perspective on what defines success and offer advice to those just starting out in business. “The class discussion is like a litmus test of what students care about and how that has... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; The Class the Dollars Fell On; case; capstone course; John Shad (MBA 1949); class of 49; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Nov 2012
News

Remembering His Roots

that Curiel performed during his second year. Classmates and cofounders Chadd Garcia and Misha Simmonds joined his effort to test that idea following graduation. The RFDF’s “Mini MBA” program offers migrant students online courses in... View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

08 May 2025
Blog Post

Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)

professors, listen to classmates with expertise in so many different industries share perspectives, and then apply that knowledge directly to test my hypothesis. I was given the resources to learn, the space to experiment, and the network... View Details

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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Educators

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05 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

be), or misinformed (provides an expected price of $510, way above the market average). Consumers who display knowledge about repair costs can get a better price. SOURCE: Kali9 A second part of the study tested how willing shops were to... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

modularity does not happen by accident; it has to be designed into the system. You have to invest in the architecture and interfaces among modules and test performance at the modular level. The whole system has to work, as do the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

Profile

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

Care.com. “We got together on October 30, 2006 and we launched the first test website in January,“ she said. “We launched the entire business that May. The only way were able to do that was because we had all worked... View Details

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

realities. “In recent years, the student appetite for entrepreneurial ventures has increased significantly,” says HBS professor of management practice Myra M. Hart, who has studied the career trends of HBS graduates. “The contest gives them an excellent opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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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