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  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

We close with an attempt to identify strategies to close the gap between the unethical people we are and the ethical people that we strive to be. Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the sixth of six... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

successfully alone. The risks are too high. I would ask them first to call a meeting of CEOs of major MNCs concerned with global poverty and explore the idea of establishing the World Development Corporation, proceeding experimentally and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • Web

CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017

Behavioral Research Services and lab for experimental research. Observing human behavior in a controlled setting has developed into one of the faculty’s mainstream research methodologies. We expect our investments in this area to continue... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

The aversion is equally strong whether tax revenue goes to the U.S. government or back to the experimenter (a “laboratory tax”). We discuss the implications of our results for the relationship between labor supply and taxation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

Less: Experimental Evidence from Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile By: Kast, Felipe, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract—Poverty is often characterized not only by low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

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... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program.   Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn, Katherine L. Milkman, and Markus Noth Publication:Journal of Economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore how organizations learn inferentially in dynamic environments, where active View Details
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

higher utility (or satisfaction), higher execution effort (or motivation), faster coordination, less influence activities, and more communication, but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Technology for Learning's Sake

complicated challenge. Early experience suggested that computer-aided case analysis could enhance classroom discussion and bring real-life business issues into sharper focus. Faculty engaged in a continual process of experimentation in... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

markets also plays a causal role in shifting investments to more novel startups-by lowering the cost of experimentation for early stage investors and allowing them to make riskier, and more novel, investments. Paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

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... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation What does it take to truly change the world? Hirotaka Takeuchi shares the practices that help leading companies turn knowledge into lasting breakthroughs. Experimentation Works: The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

designing focused experiments to test hypotheses in a capital-efficient fashion in order to achieve product-market fit. But ICOs substantially limit the benefits associated with such staged experimentation for three reasons. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

outside directors with more expertise and experience. Also, busy directors are less likely to serve on multiple committees, possibly to avoid being overloaded. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51853 Cost of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

experimenter who had made them wait, or not interrupting at all. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44857 Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital By: Wang, Charles C.Y.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne