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- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
perspective that Porter has taken, often as a result of his specific background and prior research interests. The chapter then turns to extensions of these core concepts in Porter's more recent work. A central focus of this work has been the creation of broad-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Following My Dream: Launching a Venture
product (MVP) one could imagine, and I’m very grateful for the advice. Our extensive MVP testing at corporate offices allowed us to validate key assumptions of our business model and value proposition, e.g. more than 70% of our users... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
care,” and an MIT lecturer, who wants to test out expedient ways to combine the best aspects of big data and crowdsourcing. They will be reporting their progress for the next several weeks, inviting input... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Kyruus, a Boston-based firm he cofounded that helps health care systems to manage their provider data and make it easier to connect patients with the right care—steps that ultimately benefit both patients and practitioners. Gardner... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project experience. This full-time, intensive eight-week remote learning program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
components from related future technologies for use in their current-technology products. I use patent data to test whether automobile carburetor suppliers with higher levels of future-technology R&D... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D | Baker Library
competence is complete. . . . I should like to send you a camera and associated equipment and film as a personal gift.” (2) Land asked Adams to serve as a consultant to test Polaroid cameras and films. Assessment of the performance and... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
malfunction. As the cameras monitor and collect data used to make recommendations about which roses to cut, they need to function properly to optimize production. While challenges persist, the brothers continue to View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Doctors are afraid of getting sued. According to some accounts, 75 percent of them perform more tests and procedures than necessary to avoid potential lawsuits over medical malpractice. The phenomenon of “defensive medicine” has been... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
May 2016 Journal of Accounting Research Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research By: Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—In the published proceedings of the rst Journal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
study with Deniz Aydin, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin Business School. Test case in Turkey To test how small firms manage and use their debt, Aydin and Kim turned to... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
year. Using Internet Data for Economic Research Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) Abstract The data used by economists can be broadly divided into two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm's competitiveness over the past year. Managers report that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Student-Profile
Ximena Garcia-Rada
which suggested that research would be a good fit for me.” Ximena put her theory to the test by accepting a position as a Research Associate at the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, working with Professor Dan Ariely on... View Details
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
who skipped our placement test, and how to rethink the way we award experience points (or XP) for practice sessions - but no one told me how to solve these problems, or what the solution should be. Instead, I was expected to run analyses on the incredible amount of... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
brainstorming, and research, it became clear that despite its enormous value, COVID-19 policy data at the more granular county level was virtually nonexistent. In response, HBS MBA students teamed up with Hikma Health to crowdsource the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
that mean for prospective applicants? Wheelwright: With a record number of applicants of increasing diversity, the GMAT is extremely helpful in providing an important standardized piece of data for evaluation purposes. The View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
on-line encyclopedia. These data allow us to track all three elements required to test Coleman's mechanism: norm violations, punishments for such violations, and rewards for those who punish violations. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
Cyberattacks are surging: Accenture reports that cyber intrusions jumped by 125 percent, globally, in the first half of 2021 over the same period in 2020. And while all those data breaches and ransomware attacks have meant major headaches... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
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Class Profile | MBA
700–770 Median Scores Verbal 42 Quantitative 49 Total 740 There is no minimum GMAT or GRE to apply and we do not have a preference toward one test or the other. 63% of the Class of 2026 submitted GMAT scores and 41% submitted GRE scores,... View Details