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- 25 Aug 2021
- News
PRIMO 2021: An Introduction to Research
- 07 Apr 2020
- News
How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
cognitive bias or basic, late-afternoon fatigue, Gresser adds. As much as she believes that AI can help correct for human imperfections, she’s also adamant that technology is no substitute for the clinician in the room or the knowledge... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
life. In Writing for Busy Readers, authors Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink build on their research in behavioral science, to outline cognitive facts about how people actually read, and distill them into six principles that will... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
that they’ll make a cognitive association that incubates overnight and shows up as a creative idea the next day. One day’s happiness often predicts the next day’s creativity. Competition Beats Collaboration. The most creative teams are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
in neuroscience research experiments—with former research colleague Julie Yoo to assess cognitive and emotional traits. The games didn’t ask personal questions, they measured responses, providing objectivity in a way that the traditional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
asked to pay their $20,000 fees even though they are also required to study from home using video they could probably get on YouTube,” he says. “That can’t last.” Alison also now provides free psychometric testing and cognitive skills... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
buck.” At the core of the four-year-old program is a carefully curated curriculum that balances cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and the results have been nothing short of extraordinary. In the school’s first year of operation, only 35... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
military, legal, and humanitarian strategies. Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom by Marc Prensky (MBA 1980) (Palgrave Macmillan) Both the human brain and technology have strengths: cognitive function for sense-making... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
technology that included Sequoia Capital partner Todd Cozzens (PMD 60, 1990), who invests in digital health companies. What trends does Carter see disrupting health care? Health and wellness insights driven by cognitive computing. Carter... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
favored white males, hunted for clues to candidates’ soft skills over dinner or coffee, and hired people based on résumés that revealed little about job fit. Yet Polli knew that scientists possessed a battery of tests for accurately and objectively evaluating View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Considered one of Wall Street's most influential young executives, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA '93) has gained that stature by working hard at what she has always loved. “My father was an investment banker, and I think my interest in finance started before my View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
Unit at HBS Vinluan’s research examines the relationship between the cognitive processes underlying racial categorization and stereotyping, as well as experiences of encountering stereotypes and discrimination. She examines these... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Understanding how the brain’s cognitive system relates to social and economic phenomena—including financial markets—was the focus of an April workshop on Belief Formation and Prediction, sponsored by the Behavioral Finance and Financial... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
and raising a family, and becoming a caregiver to an aged parent. “Through that process I began to look at what was available in the marketplace for the aged who had cognitive disorders like dementia, but also the aged in general, and I... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Fighting income inequality with early education reform
economics to solve the problems of education resonated with me,” says Dias Griffin, who gave CHECC $13 million through the family foundation named for her and her husband, Ken. At the core of the program is a carefully curated curriculum that balances View Details
- 16 Sep 2021
- News
Dean Datar on Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving
“It causes us to approach problems using earlier, traditional approaches. In an innovation context, however, cognitive fixedness prevents us from imagining new possibilities.” After an overview, McGinnis leads a Q-and-A about Datar’s... View Details
- 27 Jul 2016
- News
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
greater good that we should be part of. “Because of HBS, I was able to bring management skills into the nonprofit world. We bring social workers into schools where children are dealing with so many barriers, most of which have to do with growing up in poverty. Their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
can impede the progress of their creative teams. One of our strongest findings is that to be creative, people need to feel good about their work. Pride in accomplishment and positive feelings about oneself and one’s colleagues give a View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
happened—catalytically—in the science of happiness. You’ve been deep in this topic for almost two decades. How have you seen the field evolve and change? It’s become a lot more cognitive and brain-scientific. Neuroscience is a relatively... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters