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- 03 Dec 2013
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PISA Test Results For U.S. Students Are 'Sobering'
- 01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested
on standardized tests can be found here. Zoë Cullen studies the design of labor markets and the choices of employers and labor platforms that affect matters of public interest, such as pay transparency, pay...
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- 24 Feb 2016
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Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
- 16 Feb 2016
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Is your child taking a test? When is the right time?
- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
boutique-filled neighborhood and ending in another. Over at Niedlov’s Breadworks, there are iced lattes and avocado toast—the litmus test for millennial happiness. And humming through it all is a citywide 10-gigabit network, courtesy of...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History
standardized test writers, textbook publishers, and students. But lost in these debates is a much more fundamental question: Is history just a series of dates and events? While the debate rages over what to...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
is an essential part of innovation. It is the link between generating new ideas and putting them into practice. We are constantly experimenting in our daily lives, and organizations place great value on testing new products, services, and...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
indulgence or a necessity. If a tub of ice cream gets too expensive, someone might just choose another dessert. It makes less sense for necessities—like reducing the number of diapers in a package of Pampers—and in categories when there are View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
on the entire mining industry as well. Carroll’s mettle was tested early on when she was visiting South Africa and learned that another death had occurred in a nearby platinum mine. “That’s enough,” she said, and ordered the mine closed,...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book
’80s—moving it from the city streets to the suburban shopping center, standardizing the book-buying experience, and starting the familiar race to big, bigger, and biggest, and cheap, cheaper, and cheapest. By 1980, analysts were...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Green Revolution has indeed begun," he said at the launch. From the beginning, Notore focused on Nigeria's smallholder farmers, who use about a tenth of the fertilizer of their peers elsewhere. Because farmers making a dollar or two a day couldn't afford the View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
In April, Dean Kim B. Clark announced that Harvard Business School will add the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) to the portfolio of criteria used to evaluate a candidate's application to the MBA Program, effective for...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
that mean for prospective applicants? Wheelwright: With a record number of applicants of increasing diversity, the GMAT is extremely helpful in providing an important standardized piece of data for evaluation purposes. The View Details
- 24 Jul 2020
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
Photo courtesy of Melissa Zaikos Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools, she saw some concerning trends. Elementary...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Book Review: The Future of Learning To educate America’s youth, we treat them like products in a factory, according to the education experts who wrote Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. We march students through View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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The Next Lessons
significant developments Khan cited is a new partnership with the College Board, a nonprofit that helps prepare students for college through standardized test preparation and other programs. “The College...
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William Weber
- 01 Mar 2016
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Faculty Q&A: Price Check
of all the others. After we built and implemented a software tool to make demand predictions and optimize prices, we ran a field experiment to test the impact of our tool and saw a 10 percent revenue increase in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking
hope of digging into Wall Street’s high profit margins. Current robo-advisors focus on passive “buy-and-hold” strategies, selecting a handful of low-cost exchange traded funds (ETFs), investing the funds according to a standard portfolio...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes
interest, and we've seen companies stray over the edge of ethical impropriety before. This time, however, the tendency to test the limits was exacerbated by the enormous surge in stock values, profits, and economic activity during the...
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Garry Emmons