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Marketing AI Guidelines | About

more. New uses are emerging every day. The marketing community across Harvard Business School (HBS) can benefit from the applications of AI, and several groups have already begun to use it in their day-to-day work. Although View Details

01 Dec 2012
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The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding

collaboration across multiple disciplines. The HBS Dean's Fund is critical to this effort. It provides the flexible funding necessary for greater experimentation and innovation that will help ensure the strategic dynamism and future... View Details

Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

for Advanced Study and Tisch School of the Arts (NYU). She currently directs Haraka: Experimental Lab for Arab Art and Social Thought which bridges the social sciences and arts at the al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at NYUAD.... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes

publications and technical journals revealed that firms in each country followed a distinctive, national pattern. U.S. companies used a tightly focused, project-based mode of organization that emphasized experimentation and relied on... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

experiments for second-year MBA students and in his 2020 book, The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World, co-written with Max H. Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Five View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

line.” Bernstein believes the key to breaking that cycle may lie in research partnerships that help organizations conduct more field experiments. Just as many companies test out new products with “a/b” testing, they might also take an View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Apr 2014
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Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor

experimentation while undertaking research and consultancies to influence policies on urbanization, disaster risk reduction, and social housing,” says Mehra. mHS pilots include modular shelters for homeless, bundling housing finance and... View Details

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Launch Lab/Capstone 2 - Course Catalog

develop, build, and test a complex technology-based product/service, integrating knowledge across multiple engineering disciplines. Business Knowledge: The use of business model analysis and lean experimentation methods to develop and... View Details

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

establish takeaways to guide the creation of future legislation. While current measurement systems are insufficient to make an unambiguous, overarching judgment of the act's net benefits, Srinivasan and Coates isolate a few clear findings and make a case for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

of miscommunication among experimenters and theorists about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

01 Mar 2023
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Research Brief: Great Expectations

treat other people and the expectations we hold drive how they turn out.” His findings appear in the paper, “The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others,” published in the Journal... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 16

discontinuity. This might suggest that financing is not a central input of angel groups. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/KLS-Angels-June2011.pdf Incentive Schemes, Sorting and Behavioral Biases of Employees: Experimental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

comes to Black Friday and this holiday season. Instead of projecting certainty in an uncertain world, I think retailers should double-down on experimentation as a strategy. Test multiple campaigns, messages, and promotions more than you... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

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HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira

is a battleship, not a speed boat—anything we do takes a lot of planning and steering. But we're going to have to figure out a way to do quick innovative experiments in both the online and in-person realms to learn what we don't know. (LV): The View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System

specification, it is establishing a hypothesis that is then tested through action. This approach — the scientific method—is not imposed on workers, it's ingrained in them. And it stimulates them to engage in the kind of experimentation... View Details

Keywords: by H. Kent Bowen & Steven Spear; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

08 Mar 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Successful Negotiation

negotiation, part auction. Call it the negotiauction. Here's how to play the game. How Important Are Opening Talks In Determining A Negotiation's Outcome? Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation At the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 2000
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Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity

junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The most prevalent form of View Details

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Success Academy Charter Schools | Information Technology

Success Academy’s adoption of business principals — high expectations, aggressive testing, spirit of innovation, and experimentation — contribute to positive outcomes for students. Professor Robin Greenwood, on location in Harlem for the... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

studies and intimate conversations with startup founders, LTV students examine management challenges in early-stage startups and the range of experiments that are conducted during this phase of development. The course takes the perspective that a startup is an View Details

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