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- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
gaps.” The mother of three has been using her business acumen in a dynamic partnership with economics professors John List and Steven Levitt at the University of Chicago and Roland Fryer at Harvard University, through the Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center (CHECC),...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
the culmination of faculty research, wide-ranging discussions, and curricular experimentation that picked up momentum during the School’s 100th anniversary celebration in 2008. During that year, HBS hosted two colloquia on the future of...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
have classes with everyone else." To accomplish this, the cluster - a group of sixteen students - became the organizing block for Foundations. "We made a conscious effort to change the student mix constantly in order to provide many opportunities for View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
explains aspects of the scientific method, including experimental design, verification, uncertainty, and statistics and also includes sections on planning research, presenting one’s findings in writing, ethics, and the responsibilities of...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
much more easily do A/B testing and even more sophisticated tests to try to get at these questions—of online and offline behaviors—than you could in the past. It’s also just fun for us as experimentalists to try to come up with ingenious View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
2018) Short Intensive Programs Ramana Nanda, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, taught the HBS Startup Bootcamp SIP in January. Ramana Nanda, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, taught the HBS Startup Bootcamp SIP in January. Building on...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
cross-disciplinary investigations over multiple years that would not otherwise be possible. It also enables faculty to pursue novel, experimental studies, giving them the opportunity to take risks and shape the intellectual agenda in...
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- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
culture in which all staff should learn through experimentation and by making mistakes. He also supports the idea that employees should enjoy their work and have fun. “Getting the culture right is never easy, but if you interact with...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
discusses its relationship to mathematics and laws. It explains aspects of the scientific method, including experimental design, verification, uncertainty, and statistics and also includes sections on planning research, presenting one’s...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
member. Only HBS could be flexible enough for such a thing to happen! Maybe it was possible because we thought of ourselves more as pragmatic experimenters than as academics. Our strength at HBS is that we look at the world as it comes at...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
listening to uplifting music, contemplating beauty, doing good works, enjoying healthful recreation. Alas! for this innocence. Professor Edward L. Thorndike, one of our leading experimental psychologists, brings us face to face with...
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- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
for one, is using Khan Academy on an experimental basis. It’s early, but test and learning results are promising. Here’s what happens: Students spend part of class time—and some time at home—working at their own pace on videos and...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
better than the real-life me. They can start and stop and repeat me at will. How does Khan Academy change the standard classroom we all know? The nearby Los Altos school system, for one, is using Khan Academy on an experimental basis....
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- 01 Sep 2014
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All For One
experimental approaches, one to build a new storage stack on top of the existing storage, the other to build a new storage framework from scratch. After prototyping, the team working on the second approach realized their design couldn’t...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
experimentation rule the day. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business by John A. Quelch (Oxford Univ. Press) The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine
to the trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), only one of 5,000 to 10,000 experimental compounds make it to FDA approval, and just 2 of the 10 that get that approval produce enough revenue to exceed the...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Setagaya ward. Just as importantly, the clinic succeeded as an experimental lab, a place to pilot new ideas incubated within Mediva. From that one neighborhood clinic a much bigger business took shape, all focused on the organizing...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
acquire a submersible capable of diving these unexplored depths. Vescovo considered purchasing Cameron’s submersible, the Deepsea Challenger, but determined that the experimental vehicle would require too many updates to reliably allow...
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- 03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures
with a legend: “The way Steven [Spielberg] tells a story with the camera...how innovative and experimental he is on the set—it’s wild to watch. He cuts while he’s shooting, which is very rare. He’s the most efficient—and probably most...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
boldly imagine new possibilities and to experiment. Weiss shares the three basic tenets of this new way of governing: Government that can imagine: Seeing problems as opportunities and involving citizens in designing solutions Government that can try new things: Testing...
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