Testing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Blog

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

01 Apr 2020
News

What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages

essay with the Washington Post, which published it on March 27. The concern about shortages of masks, ventilators, hospital gowns, and testing kits got me to thinking about the Vietnam War, when I was the senior civilian official... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Inside MBA Admissions

qualities and characteristics. The average Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score for the class entering in fall 2003 was 708. However, the range of GMAT scores is very broad, and there is no minimum score requirement. The... View Details

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

01 Oct 2002
News

Steven C. Watson

things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held... View Details

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Apr 2016
Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

the employee onboarding process, Gino says. The researchers hypothesized that companies would see positive performance results by emphasizing employee individuality from day one, testing their hypothesis through a series of field and lab... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Portrait Project

Aditya Dhanrajani

for its maiden test drive. As I got in, the car gave way to my weight and collapsed. Later, in my engineering classes, I learned that I had executed a "catastrophic failure," but I had already learned the bigger lesson that day... View Details

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have cancer. Doctors ran View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

day.” Testing the unique benefits of work By all accounts, overcrowding, extreme poverty, and the experience of forced displacement inside the camps has taken a profound toll. Doctors Without Borders has provided almost 1.4 million... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

13 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

consider new products, even though innovative, because they were content with their current suppliers? The researchers also tested the specific difficulties faced by African Americans in breaking up existing buyer-supplier relationships.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service

01 Apr 2000
News

At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths

developments. Myth #3: Intermediaries are dead. Intermediaries are a fact of life to some degree, Bezos asserted. The litmus test will be who adds value and who doesn't. Myth #4: There are going to be only a few winners in the Internet... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Porter Directs New Institute at HBS

and a number of other areas, the ISC seeks to develop new theory, assemble bodies of data to test and apply theory, and share its ideas broadly with business, government, academia, and nongovernmental organizations. The institute also... View Details

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

16 Feb 2011
News

Healthy Growth

has been chairman and CEO of IDEXX, a Maine-based firm that develops diagnostics and information technology for veterinarians, as well as testing technologies that ensure safe water, milk, and livestock production. According to the... View Details

Keywords: veterinary medicine; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

20, 2007, while Gisholt, Minard, and their three young daughters were waiting in line for Test Track, an auto-testing simulation that advises riders to “Strap yourself in to race up bumpy terrain, roar through hairpin turns, speed into... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

27 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

wide array of robustness tests that address the concerns expressed by AS2016. Our empirical findings reinforce the conclusions of CW2013. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52775 Inventory Management for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

Publication:Psychological Science Abstract Four experiments tested the novel hypothesis that ritualistic behavior potentiates and enhances the enjoyment of ensuing consumption-an effect found for chocolates, lemonade, and even carrots.... View Details