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- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
basic ventilators, which are around 1 percent of the cost of high-end computerized ventilators. They’re now being tested in a hospital in Egypt. Our most significant efforts in the global battle against the pandemic are possible thanks to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
in three two-week modules. The first two modules take place in Johannesburg and the third in Boston. Between sessions, participants return to their workplaces to test out the new theories and practices they've learned. With participants... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
behavior. We propose that envy and empathy lead employees to discriminate in illicitly helping customers based on customer wealth. We test for this hypothesis in the vehicle emissions testing market, where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
several proof-of-concept tests and for which Rey foresaw a clear market in nutritional supplements and functional foods. The case provides context on the company; describes advances in crops genetics focused to climate change and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
trying to do a mediocre job for everybody? No. You get five I get five? I want something where you get eight and I get eight. So don't give me mediocre is balanced. I won't accept it. Morrell: Did you feel the pressure of delivering these statements at all? Did you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
test my limits and spark my sense of purpose. When the Peace Corps turned me down (it typically requires a college degree), I moved to Latin America. The experience blew open my sense of self and what I wanted to do with my life. Ever... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
devoid of objective improvement—when revisions are trivial (Study 3A), incidental (Study 3B), non-existent (Study 3C), and even objectively worse than the original (Study 3D). Study 4 directly tests the self-fulfilling nature of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
To highlight the impact of regulatory policy on business strategy, the case then describes a set of choices facing the firm, including staffing a marketing and sales group, carrying out additional clinical testing to expand the approved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
likely to affect facility managers' decisions. As a result, managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different external constituents. We test... View Details
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
wide variety of subjects. The exam includes more than 80 hours of written testing as well as a series of oral tests. Most students spend two years preparing in dedicated exam-training institutions that are highly selective. Some whiz kids... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
after testing and perfecting them. "There was a pride in ownership leading to the desire to share," Bernstein says. "And so they did. But only after they had data to support their new approach." Hence, the transparency... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
firms: approximately 35,000 plants in 86 different manufacturing industries. The sheer amount of data allowed her to test for incremental versus radical innovation among firms in a unique way. For incremental change, McElheran looked at a... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
what the researchers found after testing all three methods: Participants in the self-help peer group deposited 3.5 times more often into the savings account, and their savings balance was almost twice that of participants in the control... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
School Case 811-014 The Ze-gen case covers the first five years in the life of a clean-tech start-up. Ze-gen had developed an innovative technology that converted solid waste into synthesis gas (called syngas). This technology was in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
aesthetic sensibility, Land conceived of his revolutionary system as a democratic art form and means of expression. "An enormous number of people who lack talent or inclination for the early arts, do have the taste for and the need for a simplified medium of artistic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
their own organizations and for the greater good, BiGS will engage with alumni and other business leaders to develop and test research-based solutions. This partnership, he says, will create a feedback loop to help professors understand... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
but was glad she was able to curb the infection rate.” The city, she added, also received $30 million in federal loans for small business as well as food and rent assistance. Under her leadership, the homeless have been tested and moved... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are more likely to syndicate with each other. This homophily reduces the probability of investment success, and the detrimental effect is most prominent for early-stage investments. A variety of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household division and land transactions are successfully tested using household panel data from West Bengal spanning 1967-2004. The tenancy reform lowered inequality through its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
about the relationships between financial and nonfinancial information, developing the supporting metrics to test and validate these relationships, and then pulling all of this performance information together in One Report requires a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace