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- 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
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
testing in Canada, and how Canadian hospitals handled surges and so on,” says club president Kazi Ahmed “It was a great opportunity for our club to strengthen our relationship with the Cleveland Clinic.” According to the club’s board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
The Network Effect
coronavirus. Kapoor was tested and by the time he received the results nine days later, they confirmed what he already knew: he had COVID-19 (and so did his wife, a physician, and two of his four kids). Kapoor’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
implemented a tried and tested tool to help contain infectious disease: human-led contact tracing, the process of tracking down and notifying individuals who have been exposed to the illness. Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) used... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Geisha Secrets
TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to no avail, she turned to Japan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
promoting the sector at home and abroad. The following year, the country’s Financial Conduct Authority built a “regulatory sandbox” where fintech startups can test new products and services on real consumers without fear of regulatory... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Project Runway
test of fashion creativity and skill under time constraints and other pressures. “The cameras are on you from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed,” Estrella told the San Francisco Chronicle (July 9, 2006). “My approach was... View Details
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) first began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools system, she saw that elementary schools seemed to be getting better in the Chicago area. But once... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
test network software and hardware by injecting impairments like errors or delays into network traffic on fiber-optic or copper cable. If you are an equipment maker or network manager, you can use our product to make sure your routers or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
New Orleans Resonance
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA ’05) moved to New York, intending to open a charter school. After Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans’s dire need compelled Kleban to decamp to Louisiana, where he founded New Orleans College Prep (NOCP).... View Details
Keywords: charter schools
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
students work in small teams to develop a product (beer) and bring it to market. By analyzing data and collaborating on design, pricing, packaging, manufacturing, and marketing, teams compete as they test their ideas and iterate their... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
will actually say something, and the rest is the silent majority. So if you’re an executive, how do you pin a value to this tool? LJ: There has to be a more careful study of that. But all of these digital tools are amazing for marketers and have enhanced our capability... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
back-office burdens from the doctors and support staff to the company. One of the company's software services, for example, translates electronic records from its system to others (no more stuck MRIs), and lets doctors track and manage View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
will be assigned to work with companies in roughly a dozen different countries on the introduction of a new product or service. They’ll do a fair amount of advance preparation in Allston, and then during the January Term, they’ll travel to a company abroad to View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
would any of you like to test it? And we’ll literally have hundreds of thousands of people that will raise their hand and volunteer to be our virtual QA team. And what that means is that when we get ready to roll a feature out to our... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
hoping to test out a special area of interest or potential career path. Others looked abroad, pursuing their interests in solving business and social problems in the developing world. Canadians Alyza Keshavjee and Ameel Somani spent their... View Details
- 03 Apr 2016
- News
The Tampon of the Future
2009), an entrepreneur with an engineering background. “I was trying to develop a way for women to monitor their own fertility at home,” she told the New York Times recently. “Those kinds of diagnostic tests require a lot of blood. So I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
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