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Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA

materials required for both the MBA and Master of Science applications. Required for MBA: Application form, resume, official transcript(s), essay, official standardized test scores, two recommendations, acceptance of policies, and... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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optimize use of resources, encourage knowledge exchange and development, and increase innovation. "This book grounds the concept of a differentiated network more firmly in organization theory and tests its validity more rigorously by... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 1998
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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
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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

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

01 Jun 2010
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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

Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

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They keep the milk cool - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 next They keep the milk cool ca. 1933 Kraft–Phenix Cheese Corporation Photographer unknown Two of the large, glass-lined, brine-cooled... View Details

June 2007
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Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market

By: A. E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver

Patients needing kidney transplants may have donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other pairs only when there is a "double coincidence of wants." Developing... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Size; Emotions; Human Needs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Infrastructure; Supply Chain Management; Fairness; Performance Improvement; Health Industry

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13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting

different perspectives. Another way to standardize the interview process is to include work sample tests . This concept is like a case-based interview in which candidates are asked to solve a problem similar to one the company may face.... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check

of all the others. After we built and implemented a software tool to make demand predictions and optimize prices, we ran a field experiment to test the impact of our tool and saw a 10 percent revenue increase in the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

15 Sep 2015
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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

15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

tied to their competitors via shared intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

of assessing ability and reliability," says Chua. "Affective trust is trust that comes from the 'heart.' This type of trust involves considerable emotional investments." To test the relationship between those two types of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS

wanted to make tough decisions rather than the fixer who puts out fires and makes things happen after those decisions are made? This slow, steady creep towards testing an idea of my own was greatly accelerated by the pandemic. The timing... View Details

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

test and development facilities in multiple countries. We can re-engineer regulatory processes to radically lower costs and shorten approval times by testing full-scale prototypes before licensing. We can... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

put them in the proper perspective,” says Seftel, a physician and immunology expert whose company, Enable, is currently developing a highly-sensitive rapid COVID-19 test with its public health laboratory partners. “There’s been a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Aline Camargo

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? At HBS I was constantly exposed to a great variety of ideas, projects, studies and events. This intense and diverse environment allowed me to test various skills and discover some of my... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail; Entertainment / Media

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Roniesha Copeland

“very flat, entrepreneurial – we had lots of autonomy to explore ideas and test operational improvements.” In fact, McMaster allowed her to gain management experience early in her career, giving Roniesha responsibility for leading a... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Building a Startup at HBS

prototype which we showcased at HBS and tested out in the NICU to observe its efficacy and nurse uptake. While we each embarked on different paths after the end of first year– from launching a new healthcare venture in Africa, to working... View Details

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