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- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
computers from an experimental technology into a commercially viable, enterprise-grade tool that will be exponentially more powerful than today’s digital computers. Any sector that relies on computers for simulation, optimization, machine... 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
CareerSearch. "We've negotiated special licenses for these services on the portal - services that are otherwise unavailable to individual subscribers," explains Michalak. A Community-Wide Effort The development of HBS Working Knowledge began in earnest a year ago with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
developing innovative products and services. He discusses the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs; managing experimentation and problem-solving; product-development process design and improvement; and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
was one of Tierney's first lessons in compartmentalizing his dual interests — that of running a highly profitable enterprise and that of helping those less fortunate than himself. After some experimentation with combining the two, he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
experimentation in the required curriculum (RC). One aspect of the MBA Program that has been refined in the process is Foundations, a set of brief courses ("modules") in the initial weeks of each term in the RC. An introduction to the... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
the culmination of faculty research, wide-ranging discussions, and curricular experimentation that picked up momentum during the School's 100th Anniversary celebration in 2008. During that year, HBS hosted two colloquia on the future of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
have classes with everyone else." To accomplish this, the cluster - a group of sixteen students - became the organizing block for Foundations. "We made a conscious effort to change the student mix constantly in order to provide many opportunities for View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
gaps.” The mother of three has been using her business acumen in a dynamic partnership with economics professors John List and Steven Levitt at the University of Chicago and Roland Fryer at Harvard University, through the Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center (CHECC),... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
the culmination of faculty research, wide-ranging discussions, and curricular experimentation that picked up momentum during the School’s 100th anniversary celebration in 2008. During that year, HBS hosted two colloquia on the future of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
teachers the School has cultivated over the years. Second, we have invested heavily in research support. In addition to the research centers I mentioned earlier, we’ve established the Computer Lab for Experimental Research, for example,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
they arrive at their decisions, and where biases may enter the process,” says Professor Karim Lakhani. The working paper “Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review,” by Lakhani and a group... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
much more easily do A/B testing and even more sophisticated tests to try to get at these questions—of online and offline behaviors—than you could in the past. It’s also just fun for us as experimentalists to try to come up with ingenious View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
course, “such reports to be graded not only in substance but also on English,” HBS professor Melvin Copeland later wrote. Four-fifths of the students promptly failed. Thus began decades of experimentation and modification, with decidedly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
cross-disciplinary investigations over multiple years that would not otherwise be possible. It also enables faculty to pursue novel, experimental studies, giving them the opportunity to take risks and shape the intellectual agenda in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
Bulletin coverage of technology centered on areas such as aviation, energy, and automation. A 1928 article on radio, for example, noted that "with the exception of aviation, no other industry has so swiftly passed from the stage of obscurity and of View Details