Testing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

01 Sep 2018
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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

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

Keywords: Blavatnick; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Mar 2016
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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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

22 Sep 2017
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Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity

that are ideal for testing software as well as for working in cybersecurity and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says, adding Dandelion has been... View Details

04 Sep 2014
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Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS

could convince them that ALS is a good investment, market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do.” In 2011 and 2012, Prize4Life awarded million-dollar prizes for tests that measure the disease’s progression... View Details

19 Aug 2016
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Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets

In emerging markets, where traditional credit scores are rare, how can lenders decide who is creditworthy? Just ask, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the for-profit Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. The company has developed a 20- to... View Details

11 Dec 2014
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Revolutionizing digital medical records

coordinated, and lower-cost care. Bushkin expects MedKaz to revolutionize health care, bringing about changes in care quality and facilitating changes in the way care is delivered. With it, doctors can avoid medical mistakes and unnecessary View Details

22 Nov 2024
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Deep Reading

of generative AI to create a “virtual havruta” and create a test case for this new technology. Leboyer reached out to Israel’s Sefaria, the world’s largest open-source, digital library of Jewish texts, to discuss how a large language... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2014
News

Living Social

at the forefront of testing new models of high-impact philanthropy. The new trend is midcareer and late-career professionals who have had great success in business and are now looking for a more impact-driven career. People will take a... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2016
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Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

perfect laboratory to test initiatives designed to improve both. Eager to showcase the country’s strengthened commitment to democracy, Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) partnered with Assistant Professor... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Dec 2018
News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

otherwise take a decade to diagnose. But NextGen Jane is building more diseases into the pipelines. “There are so many understudied areas in women’s health we could explore,” Tariyal says. Illustration by Marcos Chin The Question: “The first View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2003
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Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth

growth and is interested in testing and refining its model in new locations; or when a nonprofit has less ambitious, less geographically dispersed expansion plans. We were not surpised that our research suggests that there is no single,... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths

developments. Myth #3: Intermediaries are dead. Intermediaries are a fact of life to some degree, Bezos asserted. The litmus test will be who adds value and who doesn't. Myth #4: There are going to be only a few winners in the Internet... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Porter Directs New Institute at HBS

and a number of other areas, the ISC seeks to develop new theory, assemble bodies of data to test and apply theory, and share its ideas broadly with business, government, academia, and nongovernmental organizations. The institute also... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Feb 2011
News

Healthy Growth

has been chairman and CEO of IDEXX, a Maine-based firm that develops diagnostics and information technology for veterinarians, as well as testing technologies that ensure safe water, milk, and livestock production. According to the... View Details

Keywords: veterinary medicine; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2010
News

Hunting Red Balloons

In December, the government agency DARPA tethered to the ground ten red weather balloons at random locations around the United States in a test to see how social networks might mobilize and use the Internet for rapid problem-solving. In... View Details

Keywords: contests; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2007
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Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial

Test Room (ca. 1930): Selected to work in an experimental test room, six young women employees noted, as did Mayo, that the setting’s intimacy engendered stronger friendships than occurred on the factory... View Details

Keywords: Elton Mayo; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Telecommunications; Information

19 Apr 2018
News

One Last Pitch

2015) appeared nervous yet confident as he took the stage and began his pitch to the energized audience of more than 500. Gastfriend spoke of a friend, Anna, who was addicted to opioids. He watched her struggle with the indignity of recovery as she was forced to take... View Details