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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
experimentation rule the day. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business by John A. Quelch (Oxford Univ. Press) The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
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
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Setagaya ward. Just as importantly, the clinic succeeded as an experimental lab, a place to pilot new ideas incubated within Mediva. From that one neighborhood clinic a much bigger business took shape, all focused on the organizing... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching new women entrepreneurs about the rewards of taking risks
Sheila Marcelo (MBA 1998, JD 1999), Chairwoman of Care.com, talks about helping young women understand risk taking and experimentation to encourage entrepreneurial thinking. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government... 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
- 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
- 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 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 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 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
Test Room (ca. 1930): Selected to work in an experimental test room, six young women employees noted, as did Mayo, that the setting’s intimacy engendered stronger friendships than occurred on the factory floor. Over time, their... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
Here, Senior Lecturer Jill Avery and Associate Professor Antonio Moreno discuss the new rules of retail. What’s different about the physical storefront in this renaissance of retail? Jill Avery: There’s a lot of experimentation around... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
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
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
couple of years will see more experimentation with baggage pricing. The success of Emirates is due in part to the fact that airline, airport, and air traffic control work together under one “boss” shareholder—ultimately owned by the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
work out all of the interactions between modules every time you add a new function," asserts MacCormack. The authors also found that a design team with experience developing multiple product generations is helpful in a flexible process. Indeed, the evolution of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
business that benefit employees, consumers, and society. The key: a relentless self-renewal process where companies realize the future they envision, rather than only responding to changes in the environment. Experimentation Works: The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
little more effectively can make a big difference in the quality of our close personal relationships as well as our professional success. Drawing on the new science of conversation, Brooks distills lessons that show how we can better understand, learn from, and delight... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
the same assortment. However, certain cheaper items required some extra clicks and scrolls to discover. TT: In the end, we were able to increase Zalora’s gross margins by up to 31 percent in some experimental conditions—and it did not... View Details