Testing - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

a paper on simulation and really review the literature. I'm curious about this very notion of how much we know about what people learn through simulation. SS: It's like becoming great at taking a written test in school. You deliver a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

co-developed with the Business and Environment Initiative. SIPs are an important way for faculty to build out and test new materials and themes. As Professor Macomber said at the outset, “we don’t yet know the answers to many of the... View Details

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Commencement 2015 Address | About

test or professional obstacle. But there are even deeper, more profound societal forces that will require every ounce of your Perseverance to try to overcome. It’s tempting to think of Harvard Business School as a place that creates... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

of another current topic of debate: "People worry about privacy issues concerning the Internet, but we all use it because there are benefits." Whatever influence biotechnology hopes to have on the future of human life, all agree that one of the industry's biggest View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human... View Details

08 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

regret The researchers examined why people felt this way through another set of experiments. During one test involving surgery for appendicitis, for example, they gave people either “better news” in which they would have a choice to have... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

virus will give us the answers.” Will contracting the disease provide immunity? How long will immunity last? When will a successful vaccine be widely available? What will be an acceptable vaccine trial? How fast will the virus mutate? When can mass View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

06 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

issues." In some lines of work in which the public is put at risk —such as air travel or police service—regular mental health testing may be warranted, says Quelch. In those cases, employers should look into finding the most effective... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

behavioral change, does it change other elements of what you're doing as well?" A Series Of Experiments As their working paper explains, the researchers combined empirical and experimental methods to test the purchasing effect of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

Specifically, we test how individuals who have a responsibility to punish transgressions behave when confronted with the social norm of preferential treatment on people's birthdays. We first establish the existence of this social norm... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

22 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

suddenly erupt in a full-blown crisis. The CCA approach is well-suited to capturing such "non-linearities" and to quantifying the effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis Authors:Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja, and Brian Wendell Abstract Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

using the onset of daylight savings in some countries to test how interactions changed before and after the one-hour time change. “Two individuals have the same job and are doing the exact same kind of work. The only thing that changed is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

and venture capital ecosystems to determine which path to pressure test over the summer. To do that, Takatsuka took advantage of CPD events on how to craft your career vision which helped her better understand how she wanted to spend the... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

pressure test her interest instead of wondering “what if?”, Girard followed her instincts to jump into learning more about the fashion industry. After full days at Goldman, Girard attended Parson’s School of Design at night working... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

Leonard and Lynn Paine, for helping him expand his thinking about the role of business and his own career approach. “Joe was very insightful,” he says. “He really helped me create a lifelong learning program for myself.” Crespin’s resolve and resiliency would be View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

the taste context the authors define holistic processing as nonverbal, imagery based, and involving narrative processing. The authors conduct qualitative interviews with taste experts (Master Sommeliers) to operationalize the holistic approach to hedonic learning and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

statistical analysis, there are relatively few projects (approximately 300 per year, but only 40 to 50 large ones costing more than $500 million). These projects tend to have long lives and many idiosyncratic features. As a result, statistical View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing a lot of View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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