Natural Field Experiment - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

do they have more time to experience this content?" What does this bode for the future of economic theory and management education? Paula Thornton offered this opinion: "If there were to be a new discipline, it would be one that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Apr 2019
News

Leading Schools That Change Lives

result of a recent $10 million gift to Salesianum’s endowment. “A $10 million gift is rare for any secondary school,” Kennealey observes. “The impact was tremendous and has gone a long way toward making our experience affordable for all... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

transparency over its state-contingent payoffs. The contractual nature of the put options in the benchmark portfolio allows us to evaluate appropriate required rates of return as a function of investor risk preferences and the underlying... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

both Clark and Pfizer. The Clark Foundation had spent 25 years funding research to prevent tropical diseases and now had an opportunity to leverage this experience and see its research applied in affected communities. Indeed, it had... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

The Internet is changing the nature of competition in virtually every industry. And according to HBS professor David Yoffie, competing in the Internet age is more than just a matter of having to do everything faster. In their book,... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

27 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

Nigeria. “In Nigeria, where the policy is not driving it, people – based on their exposure and their experience – are actually doing some of these things.” [3] Watch Adenike Ogunlesi’s video clip on sustainability in business and take a... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

four adventurous kids across all seven colors of an amazing rainbow to see how all colors stand and shine better together. We learn from nature that our own Human Rainbow is much the same because: With our own special mix of colors and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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From Concept to Product | Baker Library

“which is the right experiment to test an hypothesis, and beyond that the intuitive sense for directing a chain of hypotheses and experiments into a course that leads to a precious new material that has... View Details

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

the machine wins. The three researchers worked with an unnamed, 800-employee technology company to construct a new game that imitated a specific human: the company’s CEO. They designed a field experiment to... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces By: Shore, Jesse, Ethan Bernstein, and David Lazer Abstract—Using data from a novel laboratory experiment on complex problem solving in which we varied the network structure of 16-person... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

meaning and happiness. Participants will discuss: 1. DiDonna's research on the importance of time away from work for discovering and implementing these findings about oneself before it's too late. He will share his personal experience... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

Officer Susan Rogers, an accomplished HBS administrator with a wealth of experience in technology and other projects, including total responsibility for the recent reconstruction of Morgan Hall. Ground Wires As Upton and others involved... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

“siliconDeck” of high-tech resources while in California conducting a field study. In addition, student study groups have been enriched by the ability to link up online and eliminate time-consuming hassles with broken printers, trips to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

Traveling Salesman in American Culture (1995) and my book, Birth of a Salesman (2004). In the past few years, scholars have done a lot of work on 20th-century salespeople in Europe, comparing these experiences with those in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

possibility and addressed the possible practice on its merits and demerits. As Shadreck Saili put it, " all other methods we use seem to be part of neuromanagement any method that can be used to refine the identification of a perfect fit ... for a particular... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

Datar—implemented a clear strategy: Maintain the quality of the educational experience by investing in hybrid and virtual classroom technologies; protect jobs by reducing noncritical expenses and holding salaries level; and lay the... View Details

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

day.” Testing the unique benefits of work By all accounts, overcrowding, extreme poverty, and the experience of forced displacement inside the camps has taken a profound toll. Doctors Without Borders has provided almost 1.4 million... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

do you mean by that? Neeley: Work groups are not static. They are dynamic, including our sentiments about our experiences within them. With virtuality, we need to work extra hard to ensure that we are all on the same page. That is, it’s... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

Clustering Customers at Chateau This case was written for the EC course “Managing with Data Science.” The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the field of data... View Details