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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
the answer. Do you guess or skip that question? You could look at field data and see that women skip more questions than men, but it would be hard to really know why. So I designed a lab experiment where I... View Details
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Creighton Taylor
complement his investment background with “qualitative skills, learning different ways of doing things. The case method is good at showing you there’s ninety-three ways to successfully run the foundations of a business.” All the virtues of HBS’s approach and... View Details
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
little as $5 in our final study—may be sufficient to produce non-trivial gains in happiness on a given day." Norton and colleagues found these results to hold in three different studies: a nationally representative survey, a field... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
understanding how communities and contests can be better designed and managed to solve real-world challenges. My colleagues and I at the lab work closely with our partners to design field experiments that... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
discovered while doing fieldwork in São Paulo, Brazil, in some countries, proximity to one’s neighborhood can be a more influential factor when deciding where to shop. During FIELD 2, part of the Required Curriculum course View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
as well as recent articles that help give the reader a sense of where the field is headed and where likely opportunities for future research lie. This article seeks to strike an equilibrium among the variety of perspectives that exist in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
hospital’s President’s Council in early May. Bundling isn’t new. It has been proven to work at a handful of hospitals across the country, including the Texas Heart Institute in Houston and Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City. Their View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
independent social rating agency and avoids selection issues by taking advantage of a natural experiment that arose when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. We find empirical support for our hypotheses and present implications... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS - MBA
courses Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) and Field Immersion Experience for Leadership Development (FIELD). In addition, he is an instructor in the executive education course The Business of... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
Working PapersThe "Fees Savings" Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta Authors:Michael I. Norton and Leonard Lee Abstract Many consumers have had the experience of entering discount membership clubs to make a few... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
Bush, senior manager at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia; and Zoë Chance, assistant professor of marketing at Yale School of Management. Putting ‘repayment-by-purchase’ to the test A field experiment... View Details
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Beau D'Arcy
have such a positive experience at a venue or event that they relive the memories with social media posts and storytelling for years to come. I still talk with my high school friends about driving up to Soldier View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
shed light on the effectiveness of paid search, we design and analyze a large-scale field experiment on the review platform Yelp.com. The experiment consists of roughly 18,000... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
Swearengin: Leadership with the game on the line. Photo courtesy Julian Swearengin Julian Swearengin (MBA 2003) has loved football ever since he began playing the game at age 5. “Growing up poor and on welfare in Detroit, the classroom and the View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
finance. By the end of 2016, people were asking about finance.” In response to this constant market demand, Cheney decided to hire a partner with recruiting experience in finance. She met Lesley Finer in the spring of 2016 through a... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator F rom 1926 to 1966, Doriot taught nearly 7,000 students at HBS. "Doriot showed a singular capacity to...draw his experience into his teaching and to practice what he preached. Unlike most teachers,... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Leadership and Diversity at HBS
City. His determination and grit from the football field translated well to the workplace, and he later went on to work in private equity before applying to HBS. We checked in with Bruce to learn more about his time at HBS and his... View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
First off, apply – go for it! It’s one of the best decisions I ever made. If you do decide to apply and go to business school, I would also consider doing something totally different career wise, such as an externship, for 3-4 months, if you can. The unique View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
that will deliver corporate performance. Finally, I conclude that the field will ultimately require a framework that puts firms at its center. Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval Authors:Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Fumi Tamaki
extremely helpful. No matter what you want to do, there’s someone in your section who has experience in that industry, and they’re incredibly supportive. It’s amazing how dedicated people are, not just to their own success, but to each... View Details