Experiment Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Dec 2022
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2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

Future; Commercializing Climate Tech; The Future of Food When asked about the experience the co-chairs hoped to cultivate during the Symposium, Angela Son explained: “I hope that our attendees not only learned something new about their... View Details

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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog

experience had less bearing on their post-MBA career. Before these students lies a daunting challenge: facing the most challenging market conditions in over a decade, they must quickly prove themselves as a skilled advisor to executives,... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Replicating Toyota's Success

itself is also unique. Rather than adopting the first good idea, workers create iterative, structured experiments to test hypotheses and foster continuous learning. The result is a workforce that can explore problems independently, an... View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

experience of industry leaders worldwide, and to integrate that learning in a way that advances the educational experience we offer through this and many of our other programs. Q: What managerial groups are... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Feb 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

very grateful. As you know, the Alumni Board of Directors works hard to ensure that the quality of your experience as an HBS graduate doesn't stop when you leave Soldiers Field. The Board meets on campus three times a year, as a group and... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

gamification techniques to engage and motivate employees to learn. This study empirically examines the performance consequences of gamified training by conducting a field experiment in a professional services firm. We find that the main... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Apr 1998
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Going For The Summit

CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky terrain of online business better than her View Details

Keywords: Caroline Chauncey

04 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Presenting…an Alternative to Company Presentations: Evercore Grabs Attention with Interactive Events

Associates said that if we could make our presentations more interactive, ours would be more interesting,” says Joseph. Evercore formed a committee and reviewed the possibilities for gamifying recruiting programs, designing them as active... View Details

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Kristen Jones

performance and direction skills to retail, first at Sears then at DrJays.com, where she became the designated “women’s buyer.” “Most of the time,” Kristen says, “merchandisers become expert in one particular product, like handbags or... View Details

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Jonathan Assayag

yourself. The cases take you through the processes behind successful ventures, walk you through founder dilemmas, and teach you about angel and VC funding. It's really designed to help you learn business by looking through a more... View Details

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Tools & Services | Information Technology

applications and technology products to bring teaching and learning experiences to life. Learning Management Learn more about the HBS Learning Management System services. Polling & Surveys Explore tools to collect and report on data for... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New Releases

smart participants, but successful investing, whether direct or through syndicates and REITs, is a complicated undertaking. In The Real Estate Game: The Intelligent Guide to Decision-Making and Investment, HBS adjunct professor William J. Poorvu (with Jeffrey L.... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Feedback

the testing that has to be repeated is enormous. There was a very interesting book published in the early 1990s called Competing Against Time. The central hypothesis is that about 90 percent of the time it takes to do something is wasted unless it is View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

19 Jul 2019
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Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

harness big picture thinking, creativity, and problem solving to improve the lives of others. This experience was so transformational that I started my own non-profit, the Medical Device Hatchery, to help other aspiring high school... View Details

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

sessions to integration and distillation of insights. Principle 3: Breakthrough Negotiators Are Masters Of Process Design Control of the process yields control over outcomes. Skilled negotiators think hard about the impact of process on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

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Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

director of Vogue , noted in 1924, “Art is not a thing to be done, but the best way of doing that which is necessary to be done. This brings a tobacco advertisement into the realm of art as truly as the designing of a cathedral.” 15... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

design; 27 proven “plays” from the UXReactor playbook to put concepts into practice, and game planning examples to execute at different levels of an organization. A comprehensive and practical book for business leaders, design leaders,... View Details

13 May 2013
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The Art of Naming a Start-up

a name passed or failed. We didn’t want a run-of-the-mill name that simply told people we were related to music. Whatever names we picked had to be imbued with musical character, expressiveness, and an invitation to experience something... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Oct 1996
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Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

Last winter, Sherm Baldwin (HBS '97), six months shy of his thirty-second birthday and a member of the School's new January cohort, sat in Aldrich Hall and awaited the possibility of his first cold-call. While many of his classmates anticipated the View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of View Details

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