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- August 2022
- Case
Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action
By: Brian Trelstad, Tomas Rosales and Malini Sen
Founders of Rocket Learning, an India-based nonprofit which focused on early childhood education (ECE), received an invitation from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), a development research organization, to test its intervention for ECE with a...
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Keywords:
Social Entrepreneurship;
Early Childhood Education;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Literacy;
Values and Beliefs;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Education Industry;
India;
Asia
Trelstad, Brian, Tomas Rosales, and Malini Sen. "Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action." Harvard Business School Case 323-002, August 2022.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Design of Panel Experiments with Spatial and Temporal Interference
By: Tu Ni, Iavor Bojinov and Jinglong Zhao
One of the main practical challenges companies face when running experiments (or A/B tests) over a panel is interference, the setting where one experimental unit's treatment assignment at one time period impacts another's outcomes, possibly at the following time...
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Ni, Tu, Iavor Bojinov, and Jinglong Zhao. "Design of Panel Experiments with Spatial and Temporal Interference." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-058, March 2024.
- September 2015
- Article
Design and Implementation of a Privacy Preserving Electronic Health Record Linkage Tool in Chicago
By: Abel Kho, John Cashy, Kathryn Jackson, Adam Pah, Satyender Goel, Jorn Boehnke, John Eric Humphries, Scott Duke Kominers and et al.
Objective
To design and implement a tool that creates a secure, privacy preserving linkage of electronic health record (EHR) data across multiple sites in a large metropolitan area in the United States (Chicago, IL), for use in clinical... View Details
To design and implement a tool that creates a secure, privacy preserving linkage of electronic health record (EHR) data across multiple sites in a large metropolitan area in the United States (Chicago, IL), for use in clinical... View Details
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Information;
Customers;
Safety;
Rights;
Ethics;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Chicago
Kho, Abel, John Cashy, Kathryn Jackson, Adam Pah, Satyender Goel, Jorn Boehnke, John Eric Humphries, Scott Duke Kominers, and et al. "Design and Implementation of a Privacy Preserving Electronic Health Record Linkage Tool in Chicago." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 22, no. 5 (September 2015): 1072–1080.
- 26 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
enduring strength of the corporate climate in South Africa, says Eric D. Werker, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Werker's case study, "Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa," to be published in December, shows that South Africa's...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
capacity cost rates to allocate resource costs, has become the gold standard in measuring the true costs of health care delivery and well described in a growing literature. Currently, process mapping in...
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- 06 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Truth About Authentic Leaders
expanding every year. As the Harvard Business Review declared in January 2015, “Authenticity has emerged as the gold standard for leadership.” In 2003, our book Authentic Leadership proposed a new kind of...
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by Bill George
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
phenomenon in a 1978 scientific journal article, in which they described the specific and unfounded fear of being discovered as a fraud. Their research focused on professional women who were successful by every external standard in their...
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McCulloch Hall | About
to persuade state banks to apply for federal charters were largely responsible for the success of the National Bank Act. In his first term as treasury secretary, McCulloch advocated for the adoption of the gold View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
choice is between five films-Fast & Furious 7, Fifty Shades of Grey, Jurassic World, Minions, and Pitch Perfect 2-as well as two choices in television. Which are most deserving of Gold status? Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- Op-Ed
Authentic Leadership Rediscovered
“Authenticity has become the gold standard for leadership” —Harvard Business Review, January 2015 In the last 10 years, authenticity has become the gold View Details
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by Bill George
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Interactive Messaging Unit (IMU), the online industry's catalyst for going "beyond the banner" and standardizing new ad formats that dramatically enhanced both the user experience and ad performance. His influence in this evolution earned...
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- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
financial incentives causes people to work harder," he says. "But my research suggests that in deciding how hard we work and how well we think we're performing, social comparisons matter just as much." The $30,000 Gold Star The power of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
HBS alumni who are upending traditional ways of doing things, improving people’s lives, and setting new standards in their fields. Complete Table of Contents September 2010 Leslie Gold RX for Change...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
works. Experiments end up being the gold standard for finding good evidence to change behavior. Luca: The increased use of experiments has been exciting both for managerial research and for companies looking...
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- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
as the gold standard, he says. After all, humans often drive unsafely: They may drive a little over the speed limit, fail to come to a complete stop at a stop sign, or speed through a crosswalk instead of stopping when a pedestrian is...
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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
that companies can save 20-30 percent on costs by improving processes. In fact, we heard from two companies who are considered gold standards in operational efficiency in their industries, and in examining...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
producers. Operational efficiencies will allow Gold Rush Vinyl—which started with $750,000 raised from family, friends, and an SBA loan, to cover the expensive pressing equipment—to reduce wait time from an industry View Details
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April White
- 20 Nov 2014
- Blog Post
An update from the Hospitality Club
surprise gift - Marriott Gold Membership status! We are also pleased with the increased collaboration with other clubs at HBS, such as the Real Estate Club who we are working with on the Dubai Trek and the Annual Conference. What are the...
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- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
for over thirty years. He offered his perspectives on the Turin Games in a recent conversation with HBS Working Knowledge. James Aisner: The U.S. Olympic team came away from Turin with mixed results—from the disappointments of the Alpine skiers to the View Details