Testing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

remained heavily engaged in nonprofit work while at the same time starting to explore her interest in business. This time, it was her father’s for-profit business career that captured her curiosity, and an on-campus business gave her the perfect opportunity to View Details

Keywords: Retail

10 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote

social media, responses are immediate.” Also, votes allow companies to perform consumer research cheaply, generating new ideas for products or flavors, or testing consumer preference for options it might be considering. “Firms can... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

a string of experiments to test how sleep affects decision making. After all, sleep can do many things—research has shown that a good eight hours of shut-eye can help make people more creative, more attentive, less risky in their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

the CEO of the world's largest independent biomedical research and testing company. He set off on a two-year "odyssey" around the United States to try to figure out what was wrong with this country's public education system. Then he ran... View Details

February 2020
Supplement

Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (B)

By: Nien-he Hsieh, Christina R. Wing and John Masko

This supplemental case tracks the results of the Colman and Taubman-Dye class action suit against Theranos as well as Theranos’ other legal challenges and chronicles the final demise of the company in 2019. View Details

Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; California; United States

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08 May 2015
News

An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society

“In addition, corporations are not a homogenous group, as the theories of profit maximization assume; not all corporations have the same role in society, and many of the largest corporations have more of their activities put to the test... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Entrepreneurs’ Fund

month. Said Rumennik, “The Minimum Viable Product Fund, or MVP Fund, alleviates the daunting financial barrier preventing students from building initial prototypes or test products, and encourages them to connect with like-minded peers.”... View Details

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

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

Boston-specific algorithm. More than 700 people entered the competition. The research team tested algorithms from 23 finalists; the tournament was won by a statistician from London. “Using a Boston-specific algorithm, we found that you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

leveraged to test and improve the quality of corporate accountability reporting. Ramanna thinks accounting theory has a lot to contribute, in three particular ways: (1) by giving stakeholders the ability to verify what the corporation... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

organization is involved, we charge. Advertising also brings in revenue." ALISON enables potential employers to immediately test the skill of certificate-holding ALISON graduates through 20-question "flash tests" that assess their... View Details

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

01 Dec 2014
News

Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

an innovation in the MBA curriculum that gives students an opportunity to test their entrepreneurial chops. FIELD 3 is part of a larger effort by the School to set the pace in a field it has helped define. The Arthur Rock Center for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2001
News

The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision

a microentrepreneur borrows from a microfinance institution, such as ACCION International or Grameen Bank, to pay for a testing kit and eyeglass supplies. The entrepreneur, who also undergoes a one-week training session, will then be able... View Details

Keywords: eyeglasses

23 Dec 2009
News

In the Zone

approach of education, social-service, and community-building programs targeting 100 square blocks in New York City. Ninety percent of high school students who attend HCZ’s after-school programs go on to college; 100 percent of its third graders View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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Faculty & Research | MBA

inspire. Under skillful faculty direction, classrooms become crucibles for leadership: students test their judgment, explore complex ideas, reflect on their leadership styles, and embrace new models and methods for effective business... View Details

Web

From the Dean | Annual Report 2024

From the Dean We anticipate the start of every new academic year with excitement and optimism. However, events that unfolded during 2023-2024—in Israel and Palestine, and then on college campuses across the country, including here at Harvard—shook and View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Rebel with a Cause

introduced HIV and hepatitis C into his system. Today he’s in full health: a liver transplant cured both the hemophilia and the hepatitis, and tests showed he is naturally immune to HIV infection. This past March Massie was named... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Mar 2007
News

HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight

law-abiding start-up enterprises. The brainchild of former venture capitalist Catherine Rohr, who founded the program in 2004, PEP has seen dozens of participants benefit from its demanding regimen. Multiple interviews and tests are... View Details

Keywords: incarceration; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Profile

Allie Corless

of playing to my strengths in shaping my career path. My experience at HBS among my peers and in the classroom was ideal for testing my weaknesses; post-graduation, my understanding of my strengths is helping me to decisively build my... View Details

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