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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
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
- Web
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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
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
- 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
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Fighting income inequality with early education reform
mother of three has been using her business acumen in a partnership with the University of Chicago through the Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center (CHECC), an experimental school program Dias Griffin founded in 2010 that has now helped... View Details
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Baker Library Strategic Plan, 2024-2025 | Baker Library
hidden in challenges. We seek novel and elegant solutions. We are entrepreneurial thinkers and problem-solvers Strategic Directions, Goals, & Objectives Amplify Our Visibility and Impact Set the Standard for Excellence in Business Leadership Transform Spaces for View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
solving in a multicultural context because it promotes a flow of novel ideas and concepts from cultures other than one's own. New ideas from other cultures can serve as raw materials for recombination or stimulate new thoughts. Combining social network analysis and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
monitor? The answer may determine whether you'll play the wimp or the hero in your next office meeting. The body posture inherent in operating everyday gadgets affects not only your back, but your demeanor, reports a new experimental... 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
- 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
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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
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
imbalanced gender dynamics around them. Now, as experimental economists, their research is helping define the complex factors that contribute to the workplace gender gap—and sparking ideas about how to mitigate it. Here, they talk about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
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
- 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
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag’s (MBA 1968) wife, Susan, was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Thanks to an experimental treatment, Susan survived, though she continues to experience significant loss of cognitive function... View Details