Experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Reflecting on the Section Experience at HBS

Germany for a number of years my wife and I also wanted an impetus to move back to the US, and we decided that my goal of getting my MBA would be that catalyst. Before arriving on campus I heard that the section experience is an important... View Details

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

plans they have presented with a 5 percent cutback still doesn't get us to cash-flow positive. This is one of the points, too, that came out of both projects which is, you have to be aware of the receptors in people's minds, their View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

June 1980
Article

The Experience Curve and Antitrust

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Law

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December 2007 (Revised June 2009)
Case

KPMG (A): A Near-Death Experience

By: Robert G. Eccles and Eliot Sherman

Describes the way in which "Big Four" auditor KPMG dealt with an indictment stemming from the firm's sale of tax shelters. In 2005 Tim Flynn has been KPMG Chairman for a matter of days when he learns that the government is preparing to indict the firm on charges of... View Details

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Crime and Corruption; Taxation; Lawsuits and Litigation; Crisis Management; Partners and Partnerships; Accounting Industry; Service Industry

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July 2008
Article

Fairness in Extended Dictator-Game Experiments

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Reiner Eichenberger

We test the robustness of behavior in dictator games by offering allocators the choice to play an unattractive lottery. With this lottery option, mean transfers from allocators to recipients substantially decline, partly because many allocators now keep the entire... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Fairness; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior

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19 Nov 2018
Video

Transforming Customer Experiences - Webinar

13 Dec 2018
Video

The Research Associate Pre-Doctoral Experience

Jun 19 2018
Testimonial

Describing the "Indescribable" OPM Experience

Aug 27 2015
Testimonial

Creating a Holistic Educational Experience

Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

Switchback experiments, where a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to random treatments, are among the most prevalent designs used in the technology sector, with applications ranging from ride-hailing platforms to online marketplaces. Although... View Details

25 Jul 2022

International Perspectives Series: Student Experience

Meet current HBS students from around the world and hear about their MBA experience as international students. They will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated their personal and professional interests while at HBS. View Details

September 2020 (Revised May 2024)
Case

Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience

By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller

Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., had developed an entirely new “mixed play” product experience that blended familiar Hot Wheels play in the physical world with breakthrough play in... View Details

Keywords: Toys; Go-to-market Strategy; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Decision Making; Marketing; Strategy; Los Angeles

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27 Apr 2017
News

Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience

Tanvi Jain Patyal, joins the MBA Class of 2019 next fall. “This fellowship gives my wife and me the incredible opportunity to gain one of the most enriching and transformational educational experiences of our lives.” View Details

06 Mar 2024
News

A Peek at the MBA Experience

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MBA Experience - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Take advantage of environmentally related academic, career, extracurricular & entrepreneurial opportunities. Curriculum A list of our environmentally-related elective courses, first-year cases, cross-registration courses,... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

of Business Administration The wisdom of the Turkish proverb, “A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings,” was not lost on the HBS students who traveled to Istanbul this year as part of the required, yearlong FIELD (Field Immersion View Details