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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

September 2020
Case

Merck: COVID-19 Vaccines

By: Willy C. Shih

COVID-19 infections were still climbing across the U.S. and many other parts of the world in September 2020, and it seemed that every time Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck & Co. consented to an interview in recent months he always seemed to hear the same question,... View Details

Keywords: Vaccines; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Product Launch; Pharmaceutical Industry

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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

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2015
First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

Abstract—People demonstrate an impressive ability to self-deceive, distorting misbehavior to reflect positively on themselves—for example, by cheating on a test and believing that their inflated performance reflects their true ability.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

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

shorten the lives of millions of people around the world. The position that nuclear failures won't happen does not make sense to me. Until we establish otherwise through the operation and physical testing of new nuclear designs, I believe... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages in the production of analyst research. We find evidence that analysts outperform on their stock... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library

Instant Photography Is Launched Edwin Land, positive test photograph (left) and negative test photograph (right), April 1946. Polaroid Corporation Records Related to Meroe Morse, b. VII.80, f. 5, f. 19.... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge offers a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change There’s nothing like a global recession to test... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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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

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

moderate-income families (LMI) families were given the option of redirecting some of their refund to savings? Would they take advantage? The Tax Test Tufano and a cross-sector team of nonprofit and private sector organizations explored... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

July 2021 (Revised July 2022)
Case

Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Navraj S. Nagra and Syed S. Shehab

Dr. Andrea Pusic, breast cancer reconstruction surgeon, wants to extend outcomes measurement beyond traditional surgical metrics of infections, complications, and survival rates. The case describes her development of a new mobile phone app, which collects patients’... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Health Testing and Trials; Surveys; Health Industry; Boston

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03 Apr 2016
News

The Tampon of the Future

2009), an entrepreneur with an engineering background. “I was trying to develop a way for women to monitor their own fertility at home,” she told the New York Times recently. “Those kinds of diagnostic tests require a lot of blood. So I... View Details

Keywords: Blavatnick; Scientific Research and Development Services

04 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Advice from a Career Switcher: The Value of Informational Conversations with Alumni

In the fall of 2019, Adam entered HBS in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program ready to test a career hypothesis. “I wanted to understand why we have climate change and what I can do to mitigate it,” Adam recalled. “What are the... View Details

07 Jul 2020
Blog Post

The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground

the presentation, everyone is encouraged to ask questions, offer their perspectives, and push the presenter’s hypothesis to test the soundness of the idea. Over the course of the year, students are exposed to a variety of presentations... View Details

29 Mar 2019
Blog Post

My Concerns About Learning Accounting at HBS

used. It tests your knowledge as you go and reveals what you may need to review further. HBS managed to make an online tool truly interactive. I felt prepared to pursue my MBA because CORe gave me the baseline knowledge that was vital for... View Details

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Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom

melody, jazz shows that amazing things can happen when you knock down constraints and give people the freedom to experiment and test ideas. Embrace risk and errors. Whether it's a new strategy or a new chord progression, failure can be a... View Details

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