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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

26 Feb 2025
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Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health

my career, and I came away with three major lessons: Pilots are an opportunity to test hypothesis – and gather data to validate their success (or failure). Pivot quickly depending on the results. It is vital... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

25 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

grew. That meant that as more features were added or tweaked, there were more farmers to provide useful feedback from the field. "The more farmers you have, the better data you have," Cook said. Experimentation can be hard for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research

have lots of data about farmers’ soil type, crop preferences, willingness to take risk, and access to finance. Then we give them advice that’s directly related to their particular circumstances,” Cole says. Besides India, the Boston-based... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture

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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

Vallée explains. To that end, he and Célérier set out to quantify talent. To do so, they capitalized on data from French engineering schools. Measuring Talent In France, students are selected for engineering programs based solely on their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

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 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

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

process innovation based on the complexity of the process, the firm's organizational structure, and the innovation's impact on customers. I test its predictions in the context of e-business adoption using a large multi-industry View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

Before completing the personal survey, some participants took a test called "Phind the phishing emails," in which they viewed screen shots of email messages and identified them as "just spam" or "phishing"—the common cybercrime of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Nov 2017
Blog Post

Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way

new feature, "If it doesn't work, we can always blame Apeksha". It can be a stressful environment to walk into full-time. However, the MBA summer internship provides a unique opportunity to reduce the risk on both sides, allowing to View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

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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

17 Dec 2015
News

Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology

aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions about manufacturing and marketing. After each round of play, reports are generated that include balance... View Details

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

really pay off when companies need that goodwill from the public? In a recent working paper, No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events, Oberholzer-Gee set out to test the insurance hypothesis using... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

of historical change. Sadly, the field of entrepreneurship as it has evolved in recent decades has become narrow and is often confined to little more than econometric testing of large datasets concerning high tech entrepreneurs in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

trend? Alan MacCormack: There are 3 main drivers. First, the complexity of products is increasing, in terms of the breadth and number of technologies they include. Cars send maintenance data wirelessly to dealerships; sneakers contain... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

structure between software applications. Our test uses data from a large international telecom company. In total, we analyzed 103 applications and 243 dependencies. Results show that the enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Jun 1999
News

Short Takes

companies, turnaround companies, and low-performing companies. But in order to focus on how compensation decisions are made, he garnered most of his data from interviews with the compensation committee chairs from fifty of the sample's... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

Good Start Genetics is developing a low-cost, sequencing based, pre-pregnancy test for multiple genetic disorders that will replace one-disorder-only tests currently on the market. Insightsquared Frederick... View Details

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