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- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
Reading The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing 6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy What's your take on the vulnerability of open source software?... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
individual-level choice behavior to be recovered from the data," according to the researchers. The team tested the new model by looking at the marketing of prescription drugs, namely, statins, used to lower cholesterol levels in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
Page and MacLennan didn’t need to enact big changes at Cargill and so they weren’t tested in this way. In your succession plans, I recommend that you initially consider all four options. Don’t presume that one type or another is right.... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
of choices, so they can pick the activities that appeal to them, she says. And if a business is going to spend money on a wellness strategy, the company should test it out with a small group of employees first and see if it catches on... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
work toward Jobs's "beautiful, elegant solution." This requires companies to be astute about how they prototype and test. IDEO adheres to the "three Rs" rule: rough, rapid, and right. For example, when testing the... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
analytics, to take the emotion out of the decisions-- all day breakfast was a great example of relying on a very consumer-focused idea. But allowing the analytics and the pilot market, so the test versus control, to highlight the... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
blood testing market. The company and its founder were riding high, adorning the covers of magazines and making headlines. But the momentum slowed in October after a negative write-up in The Wall Street Journal, which questioned several... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
This result weakens the case for adopting such laws in the first place. Opponents of strict voter ID laws have argued that the laws' real purpose was to disenfranchise Democratic-leaning voters without ID. In our paper, we test whether... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
pandemic, we still have to ask ourselves whether the future of the CXO is a bright one. After all, isn’t the customer experience everyone’s responsibility? Shouldn’t everybody be encouraged to regularly test the customer experience... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
solutions such as the construction of mobile COVID test units with medical teams, which have so far tested over 60,000 people. The design was donated to 10 hospitals and is now also available for free... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
of selling aids (folders, display cards, primers, demonstration lamps) and to run newspaper ads and test campaigns. Inviting advertisements touted the benefits of the "variable density" polarizing windows on the "Copper King" railcar of... View Details
Reinventing State Capitalism
In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
employed in a pilot test with the General Services Administration (GSA). Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino. “Most of my research projects are motivated by puzzles or strange patterns of behavior I see in the real world,” she says.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
after he took the helm. Starting this May, Parneros plans to grow the number of physical Barnes & Noble stores. The company has also launched five new-format stores to test different retail strategies, among them a smaller selection of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
help leaders learn about leading through a crisis. There they will develop much faster than they will in leading through good times, or studying how other leaders behaved in crises. As the military learned long ago, there is simply no substitute for being in the thick... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
selecting a college. What’s Trending? —What’s changing in college admissions including standardized test requirements, institutional priorities, Early Decision, and legacy status. What Do Colleges Consider? —The role grades, standardized... View Details
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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
always rule. "If the CEO is overconfident, he will feel undervalued by the equity market, and an equity issue will seem too expensive," she observes. "An overconfident CEO will therefore end up investing less than he would like to - unless internal cash flow is... View Details