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Marketing Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Marketing Workshop Jacob Cook Fall2024 Q1 1.5 Field Course: Business of the Arts (also listed under General Management and Entrepreneurial Management) Rohit Deshpande, Henry McGee Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's...
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Field Course: Innovating in Health Care, Q2 - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Innovating in Health Care, Q2 Course Number 6345 Professor Regina Herzlinger University of Miami Professor Lee Kaplan Executive Fellow Ben Creo Executive Fellow Brian Walker Fall; Q2; 1.5...
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- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity in the Workplace...
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Dina Gerdeman
- April 2023
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A Field Experiment on Subgoal Framing to Boost Volunteering: The Trade-off Between Goal Granularity and Flexibility
By: Aneesh Rai, Marissa A. Sharif, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman and Angela L. Duckworth
Research suggests that breaking overarching goals into more granular subgoals is beneficial for goal progress. However, making goals more granular often involves reducing the flexibility provided to complete them, and recent work shows that flexibility can also be...
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Rai, Aneesh, Marissa A. Sharif, Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, and Angela L. Duckworth. "A Field Experiment on Subgoal Framing to Boost Volunteering: The Trade-off Between Goal Granularity and Flexibility." Journal of Applied Psychology 108, no. 4 (April 2023): 621–634.
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Research Brief: Staying in the Game
Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and...
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- December 2014
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No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery
By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack
A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field...
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Incentives;
Non-monetary Rewards;
Intrinsic Motivation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Employees;
Service Industry;
Health Industry
Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, and B. Kelsey Jack. "No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery." Journal of Public Economics 120 (December 2014): 1–17.
- 2016
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Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions
By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
This paper discusses several challenges in designing field experiments to better understand how organizational and institutional design shapes innovation outcomes and the production of knowledge. We proceed to describe the field experimental research program carried...
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Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16, edited by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 135–167. National Bureau of Economic Research, and University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
they arrive at their decisions, and where biases may enter the process,” says Professor Karim Lakhani. The working paper “Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review,” by Lakhani and a group...
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Jennifer Myers
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research
Financial Reporting and Analysis and Management Accounting. Our research helps scholars and educators understand current best practices for the design and use of performance measurement systems that help managers to build more effective,...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
While HBS scholars have long appreciated the value of field-based research, the broader academic community in the field of finance has been slower to accept this method of inquiry. Field-based research, which closely studies the actions...
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- 03 Feb 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Accountability and Control as Catalysts for Strategic Exploration and Exploitation: Field Study Results
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by Robert L. Simons
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Newsletter - Research Computing Services
Harvard Kennedy School Harvard Law School Harvard Medical School Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study School of Engineering and Applied Sciences School of Public Health Other Department Role Select one Faculty Staff Research Assistant...
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Contact Us - Research Computing Services
Conference Link: https://hbs.zoom.us/j/479352769?pwd=LzZ4QVZXUDRXenY0bytEaFEvUFdtZz09 General Inquiries Research Computing Services Baker Library | Bloomberg Center B90 Boston, MA 02163 +1.617.495.6100 Email: research@hbs.edu Paul DiBello...
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- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
theory building. ML strengths include replicable identification of novel patterns in the data. Additionally, ML methods address several concerns (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects for global effects) raised by scholars relative to the norms of empirical...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
The problems facing business and society are increasingly complex. Developing solutions to global challenges requires a faculty adept at field work, cross-sector collaboration, complex data analysis, and intensive laboratory work, as well...
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Market Research Reports in General Databases
current EMIS Insights Multi-Industry Emerging Markets EMIS 2011 to current Enerdata Energy Global EMIS 2012 to current Euroconstruct Construction Eastern Europe EMIS 2018 to current Euromonitor Multi-Industry Global Passport EMIS 2013 to current; limited content in...
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Exporting - Research Computing Services
/export/mdb_external/export/jharvardchmod 777 /export/mdb_external/export/jharvard Log into MariaDB mysql -h HOSTNAME -u jharvard -p Within MariaDB, export the data select * from table_import into outfile ‘/export/mdb_external/export/jharvard/my_export.dat’ View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
pursuit of financial gain and pay closer attention to their impact on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. But changing an organization’s DNA may require upending the existing business model and lowering profitability, at least in the short term. The...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
articles that journals don’t like, then you won’t get published in top journals and be an academic for long!” Research that targets a specific business problem runs the risk of appearing too narrow in focus to editors of general-purpose...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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The Changing Nature of Research
experiments, often facilitated by HBS’s network of global research centers and offices. Professor Karim Lakhani conducts field experiments using crowdsourcing—online networks of external problem solvers—to...
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