Experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2020
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How to Set Up — and Learn — from Experiments

24 Apr 2014
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Leveraging her experience to serve her community

Nancy Gray (MBA 1988) is putting her management experience to work as a pro-bono consultant and volunteer for organizations that benefit her community. (Published April 2014) View Details

2010
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Induced Variation in Administrative Systems: Experimenting with Contexts for Innovation

By: Adrian Caldart, Roberto Vassolo and Luciana Silvestri

Research on intra-organizational evolution determined that variation results from the autonomous strategic behavior of the firm. We revisit this idea by examining a case of induced variation, where a multinational firm experimented with different, coexisting,... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Design; Emerging Economies; Organizational Design; Innovation and Management

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01 Dec 2014
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Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future

Production with Principles Áslaug Magnúsdóttir Customizing Couture Online Customizing Couture Online Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Katrina Lake Dressing by Number Dressing by Number Karen Moon Making Big Data Fashionable Making Big... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; technology

01 Oct 2000
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Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience

more than anything else, I think I've done just about all of them." Walling's interest in educational reform runs deep, and when you ask him about his experiences on the front lines of the battle for better schools, he doesn't hide his... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

16 Apr 2019
Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

Bismah Rahmat is a second-year student at HBS (Class of 2019). Here, Bismah shares her experience of how being an introvert specifically impacted her experience at the school as well as her summer internship... View Details

August 2007
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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

By: A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden

This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to teach students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in... View Details

Keywords: Literacy; Teaching; Performance Improvement; Competency and Skills; India

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Loss Aversion, Diminishing Sensitivity, and the Role of Experience in Repeated Decisions

Three experiments are presented that explore the assertion that loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity drive the effect of experience on choice behavior. The experiments are focused on repeated choice tasks where decision makers choose repeatedly between... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; Loss

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March 2020
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onefinestay: Building a Luxury Experience in the Sharing Economy

By: Jill Avery and Anat Keinan

onefinestay was a two-sided marketplace that offered high-end home rentals to travelers who sought a more authentic and local experience than a typical upscale hotel might provide. After five years of rapid growth, it was time to do a comprehensive analysis of the... View Details

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18 Dec 2023

Diverse Student Voices: The First-Gen Experience at HBS

Join us for a 20-minute chat with a current student and get a peek into their daily life at HBS. On this episode, we’re talking with Dennis Cha, MS/MBA 2024. This virtual event is open to all prospective students. View Details

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MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

experience by choosing elective courses and independent projects specific to social enterprise. Courses Independent Projects Impact Investing Careers MBA students can engage in a wide variety of career development programs that support... View Details

June 1998
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Share Buy-Backs: The European and Japanese Experience

By: Marc L. Bertoneche

Keywords: Stock Shares; Europe; Japan

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July 2021 (Revised November 2022)
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Carvana: Pioneering the Online Car Buying Experience

By: Robert J. Dolan

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16 Jul 2020
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How is the virtual recruitment experiment going?

03 Apr 2017
Video

What I've Gained from the MBA Experience

24 May 2021
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The Role Experiments Play in Addressing Discrimination

03 Oct 2014
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An Open Office Experiment that Actually Worked

Keywords: workspace; office culture; open concept

24 Apr 2014
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Using storytelling to transform the retail experience

Stories make sales. That’s the philosophy of Jennifer Lee Koss (AB 2001, MBA 2008), cofounder of BRIKA, an online shop for modern and elevated craft. BRIKA (from fabricá, the Spanish word for factory) enhances the appeal of its well-crafted goods (many of them... View Details

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Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Rema Hanna, Sendhil Mullainathan and Joshua Schwartzstein

We consider a model of technological learning under which people "learn through noticing": they choose which input dimensions to attend to and subsequently learn about from available data. Using this model, we show how people with a great deal of experience may... View Details

Keywords: Perception; Behavior; Learning