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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Major Career Transitions by Michael D. Watkins (PhDDS ’92) (Harvard Business Press) Although leaders get their toughest tests in career transitions, far too often they fail to move effectively into new roles. Watkins shows how to survive... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
augmentation and curation in service design. Evaluate sustainable pricing strategies and discover how operational transparency builds customer trust. Highlights Cost, Market, Value Lens Adapting to External Changes Getaway’s First Cabin Show Hide Details Concepts... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
safety in images over time, the researchers realized, they could see how and why parts of the city changed. “It was the perfect test lab for a number of theories about urban transformation,” says Kominers, who was an intern at Google... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
and skills that the American economy needs.” (Higgins) “ provided it is spent on the areas where there is the greatest performance gap ” (Lewisman). Samuel Reich added that, “ it should (be) limited (to) schools where standard tests... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
advantage of their US work compared to prior settings was that they could test many variants of this formulation and use auxiliary datasets to validate the robustness of their methodology. Kerr and Pekkala Kerr calculated that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
of students, the researchers surmised it may dampen innovation among competitive companies. To test that hypothesis, McDonald, Pahnke, Hallen and Wang looked at close to 200 medical device startups that developed products for minimally... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
pay high coupons—typically, two-digit interest rates—for up to 30 years," Vallée explains. The researchers set out to find out why so many local politicians took out toxic loans in the first place—and whether they understood the stakes. Political Incentives To View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
teacher in front of 25 students all day long, this essentially says, Let's figure out what students need and how they learn best, and then let's offer them an individualized approach," explains Kim. The concept has been successful at increasing View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
client computer projects, and Brandi, a software engineer turned online fraud fighter, set up web crawlers that ran more than 2 million page-loads on a variety of computers and virtual computers. In 2012, they tested the vulnerability of... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
can't get anyone else to do," Xuan says. To test for that possibility, the team assessed the 12,577 investments according to measures that had proven to be indicators of future success, according to previous research. Such indicators... View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
of capital markets in fostering such convergence through, for example, cross-border listings and global institutional investor activism. The software industry offers a unique setting to test the role of global product and labor markets... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
difficult.” “It’s not like it’s a one-size-fits-all solution that we can apply to every country.” With the pilot tests underway, Paulson and Bansak are hopeful that the US and Switzerland will continue using their new algorithms for case... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
your idea, leveraging tools to test the viability of your idea, connecting with fellow climate entrepreneurs to hear their stories, and building your network. What inspired you to create this? I was meeting with students and alumni during... View Details
- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy
minimal risk involved. Use the time to pressure test different types of roles to get a sense of what the day to day is like. I started out at a startup and I realized that that wasn't necessarily for me. It was very entrepreneurial, you... View Details
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Alumni Career Journey: Margot Zuckerman (MBA 2024) – Integrating Climate into Business (and Government) Priorities - Blog - Business & Environment
decision to pursue your MBA at HBS? I always planned to go to grad school—initially eyeing programs in supply chain or sustainability—but ultimately felt an MBA would offer the range I wanted to develop both “soft” and technical skills plus View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
the BEI will host a conference for alumni in May 2023 and is exploring creating “learners’ networks” with alumni to share the teachings of the faculty and deepen relationships with alumni to develop a feedback loop. Such relationships help advance faculty members’... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
interest, and we've seen companies stray over the edge of ethical impropriety before. This time, however, the tendency to test the limits was exacerbated by the enormous surge in stock values, profits, and economic activity during the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
shelter-in-place policies and public testing centers, are the most effective and initially only option to limit the spread of coronavirus. To fill this need, MBA students teamed up with Hikma Health on a purely volunteer basis to collect... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization across industries. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne