experimentation - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology

Citation

Educators

Purchase

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies that compete internationally or... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

and anecdotal information, but despite having over 65,000 citations in the last 50 years, there have been no large-scale experimental causal tests of this theory as it relates to employment.” Enlisting a LinkedIn algorithm To put the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

Experimenters unceasingly explore the world intellectually and experientially, holding convictions at bay and testing hypotheses along the way. They visit new places, try new things, seek new information, and experiment to learn new... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

of survey and experimental research to focus on a key measure psychologists have dubbed "cultural metacognition." The term refers to a person's reflective thinking about his or her cultural assumptions. It seems to have a strong effect on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Sep 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations

Keywords: by Judd B. Kessler & Alvin E. Roth

30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

PublicationsEmotion-induced Engagement in Internet Video Ads Authors:Thales S. Teixeira, Michel Wedel, and Rik Pieters Publication:Journal of Marketing Research (forthcoming) Abstract This study shows how advertisers can leverage emotion and attention to engage... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

forthcoming American Political Science Review Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale randomized experiment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

secretive companies. About the Authors Boris Groysberg is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Tricia Gregg is an independent researcher. [Image: Chuck Bigger / Alamy Stock Photo] Related Reading Creating the View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

Web

Shad Hall | About

exercise studios. The basement of Shad is home to the Tennenbaum Technology Operations Center , the Computer Lab for Experimental Research; a 36-seat computer lab with six small-group rooms and sophisticated technology to facilitate... View Details

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

individual or organization could become so intoxicated with experimentation and learning for its own sake that they have no strategy. On the other hand, one becomes so determined to hold on to territory and advantage that they resist... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

Richard G. Hamermesh

Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: health care

Web

About Us - Research Computing Services

no cost for up to one hour per month. Consultations longer than one hour and project work for faculty are charged to faculty research budgets at a rate of $40/hour. Our areas of expertise include, but are not limited to: Advanced Statistical Analysis Casual Inference... View Details

13 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How to Spot a Liar

researchers recruited 104 participants to play the ultimatum game, a popular tool among experimental economists. In the traditional version of the game, one player (the allocator) receives a sum of money and proposes how to divvy it up... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

way or if it's time to part ways–the company has outgrown them. I once had a talented engineer on my team who was a great prototyper but not strong writing production-level code. Each time he tried to follow a project from the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

14 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

Blair Storie-Johnson Are you anxious about an upcoming job interview, public speaking engagement, or any other high-pressure workplace situation? Here’s a weird but now research-supported tip: Try taking a whiff of your sweetheart’s sweaty t-shirt. A recent View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

entrepreneurial culture, knowing experimentation would be critical to discovering how data could be woven into the company’s business practices. His colleagues followed this mantra: develop, test, measure. Yet they couldn’t just continue... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

go back and haggle over the minutes of a meeting,” says Thomke, whose recently released book Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments encourages companies to test new business models to gain a competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

agenda would, in our opinion, undermine the efforts we will recommend in our second and third papers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2592630 Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

November, 2016
Article

Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca

Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Race; Gender

Citation

Find at Harvard

Register to Read