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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
inextricably intertwined with institutions that are inherently local," he writes. He intends to test his findings by investigating process innovation in companies entering the semiconductor industry from Europe and Asia. He also plans to... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
individual rowers, lose regularly in practice to the supposedly less talented Army JV boat. The two big questions facing Coach P are: Why is this happening? What can be done about it? And that’s what the students must grapple with as well.” Crew racing is a grueling... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
ordered not to eat anything in advance of a test but was still given his usual dose of insulin. At hospitals that have modern IT systems, when food is being withheld for studies, corrected insulin orders are automatically suggested in the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
maybe they don’t. Why don’t we collaborate on an experiment testing their impact?” That was music to Donaker’s ears. Yelp had run experiments to optimize advertisements and had consultants try to figure out the impact of ads. But in the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
decision support tool for Rue La La's daily use. We conduct a field experiment and find that sales do not decrease due to implementing tool recommended price increases for medium and high price point products. Finally, we estimate an increase in revenue of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
to find a profit linkage, that's a hard test on CSR. It might not lead to that” "You have to have a rationale and logic for why you're doing a particular program. Somebody should be able to articulate what the benefits are because if you... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Joseph Blair
It’s difficult to imagine Joe Blair standing still. A triathlete, currently training for a “half-Ironman” in the summer of 2013, Joe runs self-timed marathons. In his former life as an engineer, he took a great deal of pleasure tooling around the View Details
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Prompt-a-thon Invites HBS IT Staff to Sharpen GenAI Skills | Information Technology
test their prompting skills. Teams had 50 minutes to work on GenAI prompts and prepare a quick-fire presentation to share their outcomes with the rest of the group. Whether designing a system using data analytics to predict alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
allow participants to test on the job what they have learned. The program's first cohort of 63 participants met in August and early this month; a second cohort will begin in January. HBS faculty members teaching in the program include... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
will share architectural similarities with campus buildings designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White in the 1920s. Hawes Hall will house eight classrooms equipped with state-of-the-art technology that will, in Clark's words, "stand the View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
itself is also unique. Rather than adopting the first good idea, workers create iterative, structured experiments to test hypotheses and foster continuous learning. The result is a workforce that can explore problems independently, an... View Details
- Profile
Jaime Mendez
method to the test by entering a business case competition sponsored by Columbia University and American Express. Despite being two members short of the standard four-person team size, Jaime and his colleague, Liz Montano, made the finals... View Details
- Profile
Fred Smith
When we make decisions, we have to consider a diverse student body and confront a wide variety of issues. It's a great laboratory for me to test my decision-making skills." During January break, Fred joined the China/Vietnam... View Details
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Visit | MBA
to campus to be up to date on their vaccinations and boosters, and we ask that you do not come to campus if you are sick, have been asked to quarantine or isolate, or have tested positive within the past 5 days. Masks are optional and... View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- News
Democratizing Medicine
provide educational value. So not only they're helping their patients, they're also learning and building capacity for future patient care. And about half of them help avoid unnecessary referrals or duplicate tests that would have been... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
buyout modeling tests to typical recruiter questions—was released this summer. (Penned as part of an independent study with Associate Professor Victoria Ivashina, Sheyner received HBS course credit for the book.) But now, after years... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Trust Me
might attribute the cooperation to the existence of the contract. This will inhibit the development of trust.” In an experiment where subjects interfaced with a computer program that Malhotra and Murnighan designed to test trust, the pair... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
single-site projects, related to dividing tasks, sharing artifacts, and coordinating and integrating work. Rarely does a firm's default process adequately address these activities. Effective approaches are discovered through informed trial and error, using pilot... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
all in, purchasing inventory at volume up front to enter the market with an abundance of options? Or should the company continue to take pieces on consignment, offering a limited assortment of plates and bowls to test the demands of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
leads a team?” By 8:30 Thursday morning, Foalea is ready. Today, she will shepherd the Startup Lockdown team through 12 to 14 intense hours of brainstorming, market research, and prototype building to test the business idea she settled on... View Details