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- 01 Dec 2011
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Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
vouchers for free contraceptives. Half received vouchers with their husbands present while the other half received them privately. A control group received no vouchers. The goal? To measure the influence of spousal pressure in a nation...
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- 05 Nov 2018
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Using Experiments to Launch New Products
- 01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon
antibiotic treatment—with one clinical trial from 1999 documenting such effects. Somebody’s got to do something about this, he thought. But he wasn’t positive it should be him. The incident came at an in ection point for Rodakis. His...
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
intermediate fix—even more pressing. “An open problem is whether you can train a generative AI model from scratch on your own data, preserve privacy, and still have good utility,” says Neel. Differential privacy—the practice of introducing a small amount of View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup
first and give them control over governance and decision making over major decisions in the company. That confers advantages on investors that really come into play primarily when the company is not doing that well, right? From an...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar
Concentric’s bioradar has already proven effective at providing earlier warnings. In 2022, Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance—a program Concentric runs for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at seven American...
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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
providing the funds to help others make or build something, and it helped me recognize that I wanted to be in a company that produced or manufactured something directly. It also showed me the trials as well as the benefits of a small...
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- 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research
Illustration by Joe Waldron Illustration by Joe Waldron Back in 2010, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole embarked on a two-year randomized control trial with Nilesh Fernando,...
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- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
control healthcare costs through better prevention. For instance, in 2014 the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all adults over 65 receive a dose of Prevnar 13, a...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
of work that tells a very different story. In randomized control trials all over the world, instead of giving access to a loan, a one-time cash grant was found to have...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
impact of changes to an experience or product. Once an esoteric tool for academic research, the randomized controlled trial has gone mainstream—and is becoming an important...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance
warning that antibiotic resistance presents one of the greatest threats to health, food security, and development worldwide. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States at least 2...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real
world that seems to have found a better way than price controls to tame inflation (free trade, competition, innovation, dour central bankers)... and a world with a Starbucks on almost every corner. (Now that's coffee.) In these 25 years...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas
technologies to come) is needed to develop that knowledge. "Education is a $3 trillion industry globally, and no player in the world controls even 1 percent of it," he says. "I think there will be a Facebook or Google in learning. I'd...
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- 16 Jul 2019
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The Making of a Movement
greater incentive to participate and contribute. David and Jen’s other crucial decision was to cede control to MSK without condition and with only a rough blueprint for the next few years in place. The no-strings-attached arrangement...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Chaotic Funding Derails Research
randomized model of research support in the United States, in which a change in administration or a court ruling can outlaw work that was previously supported by the government. Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen. The...
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- 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
the official government of a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
"Harvard 'B' for Peace." It was an extraordinary introduction to student life at the B-School, and as events such as the student killings at Kent State and Jackson State, the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and the trial of the Chicago Seven...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2016
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Off Script
control. They also control health funding deficits by encouraging, or even requiring, their main populations to aggressively set aside medical savings during their earning years to help with older age health care. Such actions are much...
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