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01 Dec 2013
News

Your Own Medicine

dollars. All told, the process takes about 10 to 15 years. "I think we're all frustrated, we're all disappointed," explains PhRMA's EVP of scientific and regulatory affairs Bill Chin, former executive dean for research at Harvard Medical... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Pepi Pandiloski, Yeji Park, Aneesh Rai, Max Bazerman, John Beshears, Lauri Bonacorsi, Colin Camerer, Edward Chang, Gretchen Chapman, Robert Cialdini, Hengchen Dai, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach, James J. Gross, Samantha Horn, Alexa Hubbard, Steven J. Jones, Dean Karlan, Tim Kautz, Erika Kirgios, Joowon Klusowski, Ariella Kristal, Rahul Ladhania, Jens Ludwig, George Loewenstein, Barbara Mellers, Sendhil Mullainathan, Silvia Saccardo, Jann Spiess, Gaurav Suri, Joachim H. Talloen, Jamie Taxer, Yaacov Trope, Lyle Ungar, Kevin G. Volpp, Ashley V. Whillans, Jonathan Zinman and Angela L. Duckworth

Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens’ decisions and outcomes. Typically, different scientists test different intervention ideas in different samples using different outcomes over different time... View Details

Keywords: Policy Making; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Decision Making; Policy

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01 Oct 2000
News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

Paul A. Gompers Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high-growth, and newly public companies. He holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial and Service Management units. Gompers has taught both the required... View Details

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A 680,000-Person Megastudy of Nudges to Encourage Vaccination in Pharmacies

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Mitesh S. Patel, Heather N. Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Jake Rothschild, Jonathan E. Bogard, Ilana Brody, Christopher F. Chabris, Edward Chang, Gretchen B. Chapman, Jennifer E. Dannals, Noah J. Goldstein, Amir Goren, Hal Hershfield, Alex Hirsch, Jillian Hmurovic, Samantha Horn, Dean Karlan, Ariella S. Kristal, Cait Lamberton, Michael N. Meyer, Allison H. Oakes, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Maheen Shermohammed, Jaochim H. Talloen, Caleb Warren, Ashley V. Whillans, Kuldeep N. Yadav, Julian J. Zlatev, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Rahul Ladhania, Jens Ludwig, Nina Mazar, Sendhil Mullainathan, Christopher K. Snider, Jann Spiess, Eli Tsukayama, Lyle Ungar, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth

Encouraging vaccination is a pressing policy problem. To assess whether text-based reminders can encourage pharmacy vaccination and what kinds of messages work best, we conducted a megastudy. We randomly assigned 689,693 Walmart pharmacy patients to receive one of 22... View Details

Keywords: Vaccination; Vaccines; Nudges; Communication Strategy; Communication Technology; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment

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12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Inventor Dean Kamen (OPM 7, 1982) facilitated the shipment of 91,000 pounds of protective equipment to be delivered from Shanghai, China, to New Hampshire. Kamen reached out to his DEKA Research and Development Corp. employees who live in... View Details

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

and the deans of both schools and the president of the university have enthusiastically supported us all along," says PELP co-founder and HBS lecturer Stacey Childress. The nine participating school districts together employ nearly... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

01 Mar 2013
News

Opening the Door

Clark, of Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity (2000), among many other publications and cases. At HBS, Baldwin has been a director of research, senior associate dean for faculty planning, and faculty chair of the Doctoral... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

Clubs News Clubs News Clubs Take 2020 Global Networking Online to Explore the Future of Work For the first time ever, HBS alumni around the world gathered online and across time zones on October 20 to kick off the HBS Global Networking Night (GNN 2020). Hosted by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

have won the Nobel Prize, but when these brilliant young people pass through our program, it’s not my doing. I do have the view that the key thing with doctoral students is to offer positive reinforcement and encouragement.”On the day the Nobel Prize was announced,... View Details

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

as they remained in class when it ran overtime. He recalls skits from 1984A and 1985A, one titled “Benaway” and another an advertising pitch for an ad for HBS featuring Dean McArthur. He also remembers Halloween costume classes, for which... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

15 Nov 2020
News

Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But the company also faces questions... View Details

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that will accommodate a group of committed cross-registrants. Aspiring cross-registrants desiring more information about the course can reach out to our teammates in their respective schools and programs, including Practitioner in Residence John Brown and Assistant... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Faculty News

With the 2000-2001 academic year in full swing, the expanding HBS faculty — now more than two hundred members strong — has seen a number of promotions, accessions to chaired professorships, movement of previously chaired professors to vacated chairs, and, in two cases,... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Apr 2014
News

HBS Campaign Inaugural Event via Social Media

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

Camille Tang Yeh (MBA 1980) is the executive director of the School's new Asia-Pacific Research Office in Hong Kong. A native of Hong Kong, Yeh has almost twenty years of experience in investment banking, primarily in Asia. What are some research topics of interest to... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

Alumni Books Sex and the Siren: Tales of a Later Dater by Donna Arp Weitzman (OPM 37, 2008) (Howard Bond Media Group LLC) A witty, satirical look at the dating prospects, sexual exploits, and other adventures of a mature single woman in the 21st century, who despite... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

Alumni Books Live the Art by Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) (Rizzoli) A chronicle of Deitch’s career as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that transcended the idea of a mere “exhibition,” this book explores in detail the shows and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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