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31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

school, and averaged 28 points per game playing basketball. A teacher said, ‘Why don’t you test yourself against the big boys and girls back East?’ So at 16, by myself, I flew to Bradley Field, took a Greyhound bus around New England to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

09 Apr 2014
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Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus; Video Game; Web Services

February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
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From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran

In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel

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14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

The pandemic is winding down, and the world is moving toward an endemic approach. In the world's COVID-19 epicenter, New York City, businesses, restaurants, and Broadway have reopened now that 4 million New Yorkers have been vaccinated. View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

02 Aug 2020
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Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

as well. What kind of “life” will experimentation have outside high tech? What do you think? Original Post “Test, then invest” is an increasingly common saying among entrepreneurs and those who finance their startups. The idea is simple: Fast, inexpensive View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

the easy, obvious answer. This is one reason techniques like point-counterpoint, which requires groups to generate at least two alternatives, are so often associated with superior decision making. Usually, keeping track of the number of options being considered will... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

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By: Iavor I. Bojinov

Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

Sciences Track at the 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge, a University-wide competition hosted by the Harvard Innovation Labs, which identifies student ventures with significant potential. The experience “was a huge catalyst for us, and it gave us an opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details

08 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

And, for me, the two year program seemed like a great opportunity to test out my start-up ideas in a supportive and low risk environment while continuing to hone my business skills. Did you have a back-up plan if only one of you got in?... View Details

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

with as well." IN SYNCH? Crew racing is a grueling test of strength, coordination, and endurance. Physiologists say that rowing a 2,000-meter race is equivalent to playing two basketball games back-to-back. The difficulty of keeping... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

Toward this end, Xi Zou and I have recently completed a new study in which participants tested perfumes as part of an ostensible marketing research project. Participants were divided into two groups: In the first group, participants read... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

to really test out an idea to make sure that you are creating something that people want. I think that sometimes, as engineers, we get excited by the building process and forget that part.” Perelson appreciates having the opportunity to... View Details

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

articles on emerging markets—despite their now huge importance in the global economy. The reason is that journal editors reward the authors of papers employing rigorous testing of rigorous datasets. Once you leave North America, Europe,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

highly talented employees, who produce great value for the organization but may go about it in ways that test normal work-day structures or departmental rules and cause internal conflict. With insight offered from professional jazz... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

firm." In order to test whether this was true, the researchers enlisted 94 CEOs of major Italian corporations who agreed to put their lives under the microscope for a period of a week at a time. The CEO's personal assistant was asked... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

reaching higher productivity. Attracting FDI, generating jobs, and growing exports are positive implications of higher productivity. But the ultimate test of whether policies are effective is their impact on prosperity. And here... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

projects over time, you should gain some sense of how fast the complexity is increasing. Pad your timelines aggressively to account for the larger number of things that are going to go wrong.” "Before a high-stakes product launch, Apple will do small manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

people can weigh the costs and benefits of their current behavior taking into consideration its implications for the future, and still choose to engage. One way to test whether people are in fact “rational” about their addictions, Hussam... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

available for subsequent tasks," says Piovesan, who conducts much of his fellowship work through the Computer Lab for Experimental Research at HBS. "We were interested to see if this theory was true, and, if so, what were the implications for the work... View Details