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  • May–June 2019
  • Article

U-Shaped Conformity in Online Social Networks

By: Monic Sun, Michael Zhang and Feng Zhu
We explore how people balance their needs to belong and to be different from their friends by studying their choices of a virtual-house wall color on a leading Chinese social-networking site. The setting enables us to randomize both the popular color and the adoption... View Details
Keywords: Conformity; Normative Social Influence; Social Networks; Field Experiment; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Attitudes; Social Media
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By: Kris Johnson Ferreira
Professor Ferreira's research primarily focuses on how retailers can use algorithms to make better revenue management decisions, including pricing, product display, and assortment planning. In the retail industry, anticipating consumer demand is arguably one of the... View Details
Keywords: E-commerce; Analytics; Revenue Management; Pricing; Assortment Planning; Field Experiments; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Retail Industry
  • 02 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

Getting a Peek Into the HBS Experience

the most about Harvard Business School? What surprised me most about HBS is the students’ capacity to have a global impact within their first year on campus. During the 2+2 panel, I was astonished to hear from current students about their View Details
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Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Course Number 6454 Senior Lecturer Sara Fleiss Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 10 Sessions Project Course Overview Video Course Overview This course represents a unique... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Keywords: by Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez & Stefanie Stantchev
  • March 2021
  • Article

Opting-in to Prosocial Incentives

By: Daniel Schwartz, Elizabeth A. Keenan, Alex Imas and Ayelet Gneezy
The design of effective incentive schemes that are both successful in motivating employees and keeping down costs is of critical importance. Research has demonstrated that prosocial incentives, where individuals’ effort benefits a charitable organization, can sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Incentives; Prosocial Behavior; Behavioral Economics; Field Experiments; Recycling; Prosocial Motivation; Decision Making; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior
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  • 03 Feb 2023
  • News

Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road

As part of the HBS Elective Curriculum, MBA students can enroll in an Immersive Field Course (IFC). These courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections and provide students with an opportunity to get out of the classroom... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

that no one else does” That's exactly what Cohen has been doing for the last three years in the MBA field course Stock Pitching, which he co-teaches with Christopher J. Malloy, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation Course Number 6756 Senior Lecturer Satish Tadikonda Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 12 Sessions Paper Click here for application due August 16. Career Focus Creating, launching and... View Details
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Field Course: Startup Operations Studio (SOS) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Startup Operations Studio (SOS) Course Number 6675 Senior Lecturer Julia Austin Spring; Q3Q4; 1.5 credits Two-hour sessions meet every other Tuesday from 3:10-5:10 Project Application Only - Students... View Details
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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Investing for Impact Course Number 6604 Senior Lecturer Archie L. Jones Senior Lecturer Emily R. McComb Senior Lecturer Brian Trelstad Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Enrollment: Limited to 40 students, by... View Details

    Venture Capital Journey

    Venture Capital Journey (VCJ) is an MBA elective field course for students who plan to embark on a career in venture capital. The focus of the course is to provide students with frameworks, tools, a network, and hands on experience in preparation... View Details

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    Field Course: Foundry AI Lab - Course Catalog

    HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Foundry AI Lab Course Number 6617 Professor Thomas Eisenmann Professor of Management Practice Shikhar Ghosh Fall; Q1; 1.5 credits 6 Weekly Two-Hour Sessions Project HBS Foundry will be a digital platform... View Details
    • 11 Feb 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France

    Keywords: by Vincent Pons; Public Relations; Public Administration
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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 Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits Paper/project Enrollment: limited to 20 students Executive Fellows Ben Creo Lee Kaplan Brian Walker... View Details
    • November–December 2023
    • Article

    Iterative Coordination and Innovation: Prioritizing Value over Novelty

    By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
    An innovating organization faces the challenge of how to prioritize distinct goals of novelty and value, both of which underlie innovation. Popular practitioner frameworks like Agile management suggest that organizations can adopt an iterative approach of frequent... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Novelty; Goals; Specialization; Coordination; Field Experiment; Software Development; Agile; Scrum; Iteration; Iterative; Organizations; Innovation and Invention; Value; Goals and Objectives; Integration; Applications and Software
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    Erin's research focuses on how organizations can and should respond to employee failures. She is interested in understanding the effects that organizational responses have on subsequent employee behavior, and how organizational policies can be designed to more... View Details
    Keywords: Repair; Recovery; Reintegration; Prosocial Behavior; Field Experiment; Psychology; Networks; Punishment; Giving and Philanthropy; Social Psychology; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Ethics
    • 17 Dec 2015
    • News

    Field 2 Gives Students Hands-On Exposure To Business Practices In Malaysia

    capital as part of FIELD 2, the second module of the required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development. She and her five teammates helped Groupon Malaysia... View Details
    • 16 Jun 2020
    • News

    Megan Rapinoe on Leading - On and Off the Field

    • 01 Jun 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence

    Keywords: by Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti