Testing - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)

don’t like that worker, so you are biased consciously or unconsciously against him,” says Gallani. Whether or not that bias exists, humans’ natural tendency to look for someone else to blame often makes employees believe that bias exists. Gallani and Cai decided to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

investigate whether there are gender differences in preferences for receiving performance feedback. We vary many features of the feedback context: whether the performance task is a cognitive test or a mock interview, whether the feedback... View Details

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

months. During the test period, Bean encourages extensive feedback at all times, and formally solicits feedback at three points: when the product is first received, at the midpoint, and at the end of the test. The midpoint evaluations are... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

to commercialize its R&D more effectively in foreign markets. Until then, Eli Lilly had operated one home-base-augmenting laboratory site abroad and some small sites in industrialized countries for clinical testing and drug approval... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

operations, analyzing what is already available for delivery in target markets and mining its own data to see what works and what doesn’t. “We run A/B testing around price, around pictures, around menu descriptions,” says Izquierdo. “We... View Details

02 May 2025
Blog Post

How to Work with Search Firms

"non-traditional" candidates who may be a little off target. Participating in a search as the non-traditional candidate could be a test run for a future search in which you’re the bullseye. If the recruiter receives positive feedback from... View Details

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

the right expectation and rhythm for execution, discovering and developing talent to their potential, to being responsible for every decision I make. What's next? Teresa: In the year ahead, I’m excited to continue customer interviews with product and accessibility... View Details

26 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

and Successful Enterprises, Negotiations, and an immersive class that allows me to travel to Los Angeles and work with a media company. I’m also working with one of my favorite professors on an independent project that allows me to test... View Details

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

Success at the movie box office can be difficult to predict. For every surprise hit film like Crazy Rich Asians, there’s a massive flame-out like Justice League. Unlike television, where a station can test a pilot before committing to a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

develop negative ideas about marriage, just as citizens of the United States and China may develop bad feelings about each other from watching their leaders squabble. So why wouldn't the same thing happen in the workplace? Testing For... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

and learning from tests Anticipating change and reacting to new information 6-8 hrs Module 3 Financing a Business Determine how and when investment can help you create value for yourself and your investors, and consider risk and reward... View Details

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

distinct advantage. These organizations have found ways to describe and communicate their strategies using powerful and tested approaches. They have recognized the need to make strategy execution a recognized competency of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

Australia. The beauty of peridotite is that it has a very high olivine content, which means it can soak up more carbon than any comparable rock. That’s the theory, but we need to confirm how it works in practice. We're currently at pilot stage and we're View Details

Profile

Enrico Ferrari

own." Enrico is planning on testing the venture capital waters during his summer break. "I've been on the operational and execution side, now I want to see the investors' side for a complete picture before I launch my next... View Details

Keywords: Tech

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

doctorate. "But we found it to be an across-the-board effect." Just as important are the findings about the costs to companies of complying with regulations. Testing every measure they could find—jobs, wages, sales, and credit ratings... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

opportunities. For students who come from the United States or Europe, these cases expose them to something new and test their understanding of business issues in a different context. ” Victoria lvashina Lovett-Learned Professor of... View Details

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

If women wanted to shake up their makeup regimen 10 years ago, Sephora was the place to go. Beauty product junkies loved Sephora’s candy store-like display of sample-size face creams, glittery lip glosses, and eyeshadows in every shade imaginable, allowing them to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

my brother and I inherited from our mother. Thanks to her relentless efforts, we are part of the fortunate few that have been properly genetically tested and diagnosed. While rare, HHT is the second most common inherited bleeding... View Details

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

long-term effort for us," he said. "Starting this month, my own speech will simply be in English." All workers were required to take a two-hour 200-question test to assess their reading and listening comprehension of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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