experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

Design of Panel Experiments with Spatial and Temporal Interference

One of the main practical challenges companies face when running experiments (or A/B tests) over a panel is interference, the setting where one experimental unit's treatment assignment at one time period impacts another's outcomes, possibly at the following time... View Details

November 2016
Article

Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom

By: Sergey Chernenko, Samuel Gregory Hanson and Adi Sunderam

Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of lenders helps fuel credit booms. We use new microdata on mutual funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Investment; Experience and Expertise

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29 Jul 2013
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Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending - Buying Experiences

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Companies: Executive and board member prior experience

How do I locate companies with current executives or board members that have specific industry experience such as consulting? Use Capital IQ to do a search on PE/VC firms and add criteria that includes key executives and board members... View Details

11 Mar 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Curbing Adult Student Attrition: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Raj Chande, Michael Luca, Michael Sanders, Xian-Zhi Soon, Oana Borcan, Netta Barak-Corren, Elizabeth Linos, Elspeth Kirkman & Sean Robinson; Education

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

they felt was inadequately represented in the bond market. "We could see this macroeconomic storm on the horizon," says Higgins, whose previous experience at a global macro hedge fund proved valuable to the team. "But there... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

05 Jul 2021
News

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

01 Jun 2000
News

Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity

experimenting with images that serve as trials for possible but not yet fully elaborated professional identities." In an article titled "Provisional Selves: Experimenting with Image and Identity in... View Details

14 May 2013
Blog Post

Fellow HBS Classmates Enriching the Internship Experience

the same company are connected with each other. As mentioned in my last post, this is extremely important for creating a memorable experience as fellow interns can make the entire internship richer on several levels. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

2019
Flash Talks

Life and Leadership after HBS: Sexual Harassment Experiences and Beliefs

2024
Working Paper

Automating Short-Term Payroll Savings: Evidence from Two Large U.K. Experiments

By: Sarah Holmes Berk, James J. Choi, Jay Garg, John Beshears and David Laibson

Automatic enrollment is often used to increase retirement savings. What are the effects of using it (or, alternatively, requiring an active enrollment choice) to increase short-term savings? We evaluate two experiments in the U.K. at employers that enable workers to... View Details

Keywords: Retirement Savings; Participation; Automatic Enrollment; Retirement; Human Resources