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- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Meet Professor Elisabeth Paulson: A Conversation on Life, Research, and Teaching
non-experts can similarly promote classroom learning by asking and answering questions. This creates a unique and supportive classroom culture. Your research focuses on data-driven policy making and the design of interventions for social... View Details
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Celia Stafford
impacted, which reinforces physician’s dissatisfaction. I’m interested in finding interventions that will disrupt that reinforcing loop and increase satisfaction for both patients and physicians.” View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
we only act when necessary to avert unacceptable — and in some cases dire — outcomes. The second is that any intervention go with, rather than against, the grain of the market system. Our objective is not to supplant or replace markets.... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
operations head at Peak Investment Capital, an SME investment platform in Accra. Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019), a native of Cairo, Egypt, will work as a strategy and business development associate at Misr Radiology Center in Cairo. The chain of radiology centers offers... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
the rest got $3. Flexible. Participants would be compensated for working out at any time, with the same $7 and $3 breakdown as the routine group. Control. This group was encouraged to exercise without financial incentives. During the four-week View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
University of Illinois at Chicago Interventions That Work: Alternative Paths to Minimizing Workplace Gender Bias Kate Kellogg , MIT Sloan School of Management Create Relational Spaces for Transformational Change Initiatives focus on... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
intervention training for the 90 call takers, establishing new protocols and role-playing exercises that enabled them to identify and correctly triage calls over to a clinician on site,” she explains. “That had a big impact on improving... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) By the time they reach eighth grade, about 61 percent of girls in Zambia have dropped out of school—a rate three times higher than their male counterparts. View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
Reflective Leader program Today, however, the practice of education is changing, from a short-term learning intervention to one centered on a lifelong process of development. At HBS, our core mission is to keep the School relevant for... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
in Palo Alto, California. There was this very scared young Vietnam veteran whom one could even get on the table. That’s when I saw the first time how a quick hypnotic intervention could make a difference. “I built a research program... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
generally came down in support of the free exportation of jobs, regardless of how imperfect labor markets are in comparison with markets for capital, goods, and services. Those arguing for some kind of intervention in this market activity... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Humans, it seems, are wired for immediate gratification, while “a lot of the things that make us happiest require time and effort,” Norton says. Understanding this disconnect and interventions that could change it can make people—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
—Sarika Mendu (MBA 2020) Mendu also shadowed staff in Detroit’s 911 call centers, learning firsthand about their daily challenges. “Imagine listening to callers in crisis over a 16-hour shift. It’s an emotionally taxing job. We created crisis View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
Ehrenberg decided at an early age that she wanted to be a doctor. “I was very concerned about sick people,” she says, “and I thought medicine was the greatest job in the world.” In 1997, she graduated from medical school in Munich and started specializing in View Details
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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
influence, including classroom teaching; practitioner-oriented publishing; using research to inform organizations; and conducting organizational interventions as venues for creating change through disseminating, translating, and applying... View Details
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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
sculptures are also interventions that can transform public spaces and inspire action. As he wrote in his 1971 statement, “Notes on Black Art”: “We must make works that use our lives and feelings as their basis for existence. The work can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press). And when he says big,... View Details
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Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks - Course Catalog
infrastructure, and economic development of cities. The content then progresses into how to incorporate considerations of urbanization, resource scarcity, and climate perils with proactive interventions that meet financial and societal... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action,” with 28 other researchers. "Low-cost, light touch interventions can improve conditions for employees." The havoc the virus has wreaked on businesses worldwide... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman