testing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

24 Aug 2020
Blog Post

My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort

at Merck in their Screening and Protein Sciences Department. There, we ran tests to identify potential therapeutic candidates. Through this research, I started to see the link between bench science and the impact that science can have on... View Details

15 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the World of Electric Adventure Vehicles

decide where we should open stores, what the stores should look like, how we should structure test drives, and how we should communicate with customers.” Applying her HBS education at Rivian After only a year at HBS, Danziger has found... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail

Profile

Nneka Ezeigwe

yourself? I’m taking advantage of HBS’ focus on entrepreneurship to test myself and see if this is a path I’d want to take in the future. With one of my classmates, I entered the New Venture Competition this year. Our idea: a fast-fashion... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

Profile

Amy Sennett

environment to test ideas “At HLS,” Amy observes, “there’s a constant pushback on your comments; you’re always forced to reevaluate your position. It’s a safe environment, a kind of practice round for policy work, in which you can put a... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

From Das’s Desk

2004) While The Reflective Leader is a unique program tailored to its target audience, we are now piloting a second wave of offerings––existing Executive Education programs––for defined subsets of our alumni community. Since one of the hypotheses we’re View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

01 Jun 2001
News

Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds

Feagler retained his passion for the mountains and outdoor life. In 1995, this avocation led to an accident that meant the end of his aviation career and the beginning of an ordeal that would severely test his physical and emotional... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Navy; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2014
News

Feedback

the testing that has to be repeated is enormous. There was a very interesting book published in the early 1990s called Competing Against Time. The central hypothesis is that about 90 percent of the time it takes to do something is wasted... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

19 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

phenomenon in a series of six experiments, testing whether it is possible to write one in such a way to make a customer feel more safe rather than less safe. In one experiment, for example, they presented online participants with the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo

problem, and speak with users to understand the challenges from a more human point of view. I collaborated with designers and software engineers to develop solutions, which I then presented to the CEO, Head of Design, and Head of Product. After getting their approval,... View Details

Keywords: Technology

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

2011, using cooperative and competitive scenarios in which participants performed both a verbal and a math test at Harvard Business School's Computer Lab for Experimental Research. Each participant was given a pseudonym, with women... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

06 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production

2.5 weeks). Count the petals, are there really 60? Image source: The authors. Five years ago, the brothers started to test the optimal intensity and spectrum of LED lighting on rose cultivation in an experimental site, recognizing that... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

You Have to Save to Win

Playing off the popularity of lottery games, HBS professor Peter Tufano has designed a savings program called “Save to Win,” now being tested at eight credit unions in Michigan. To participate, individuals open a one-year certificate of... View Details

Keywords: Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

with insurance provider UnitedHealthcare to test a fixed-payment structure for a select group of head and neck cancer patients. Rather than receiving separate charges for every test, treatment, and appointment, patients in the three-year... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

empirical implications and possible theoretical extensions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-056.pdf Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia Authors:Mikołaj J. Piskorski and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

Details Harvard Business School Case 608-109 Three-quarters of Specialisterne's expert software testing staff are diagnosed with some form of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Usually a handicap, ASD conveys talents especially suited to... 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

Keywords: Health Care; Entrepreneurship

Portrait Project

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

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

have a higher probability of walking by the clinic for reasons other than vaccination. Method: We obtained data from an employer with a free workplace influenza vaccination clinic. Using each employee’s building entry/exit swipe card data, we View Details