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- 11 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
we’re proud of is more of a culmination of moments, but it's been incredible to work with the Required Curriculum (RC) class of 2022. We were connected to many of them first through the AASU admissions team and then as co-presidents. It is such a rewarding View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
large, but we have not made progress in measuring it. That is a future question for research." Despite the difficulty of assessing the effects of regulation, Srinivasan stresses the importance of continuing to look for ways to do so, citing the possibility of... View Details
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
toggle the full class into random small discussion groups and back to the classroom was amazing. This allowed for me to meet and have a discussion with almost every person in the class. WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO OTHER EXECUTIVES... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
an alternative commitment device that is widespread and highly accessible, but there is little empirical evidence evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
impact of changes to an experience or product. Once an esoteric tool for academic research, the randomized controlled trial has gone mainstream—and is becoming an important part of the managerial toolkit. In... View Details
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
Publications Blind Ethics: Closing One's Eyes Polarizes Moral Judgment and Discourages Dishonest Behavior Authors: E. M. Caruso and F. Gino Publication: Cognition (forthcoming) Abstract Four experiments demonstrate that closing one's eyes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
their products listed on top, is that a good thing or a bad thing? It just depends on which side you’re looking from,” says Lakkaraju. The coffee machine experiment The study involves a hypothetical search for an “affordable” new coffee... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
company returned to signage as well, but this time used licensed partners NeoLux (Korea), Midori Mark (Japan), and Motion Display (Sweden) to sell its trademark Ink-In-Motion displays for point of sale promotion. Wilcox recalls another near-death View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50189 Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile By: Kast, Felipe, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract—We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings through two View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
wholly owned enterprise. Hesse must prepare his recommendation to the management team, which includes owners Jim and Debby Sharpe. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807118 PublicationsRemedying Education: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
a Chinese migrant, it might be more important to go back home during the Chinese New Year, rather than during the December break.” Although the study was able to exploit the random assignment of workers to different locations, thus... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50752 Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Celine, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
3 Myths About HBS
3. “There is no way that a random group of 90 people will become my best friends.” This is probably my favorite misconception to address, and definitely the generalization that I got the most wrong. I will admit, walking into Aldrich... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
mental health issues that are entirely manageable, and by making it more costly for them to come forward. "You can imagine a fallout from this tragedy, subjecting everyone from crane operators to Uber drivers to random mental health... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
preferences. The second algorithm is more efficient, but applies only in the case when random utilities are logit. We show that the log-likelihood of the model has a particularly simple expression and we compute its derivatives. As an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
are addressed in the May 2019 paper Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism, published in the journal Organization & Environment. Toffel’s case study CEO Activism is taught to HBS MBA students. The Tim Cook experiments To gauge the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
and strict quarantine measures, drawing on the city-state’s previous experience with pandemics, including SARS, H1N1, MERS, and Zika. Then in March 2020, Singapore deployed the world’s first Bluetooth-based contact-tracing system,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
wholeheartedly in “the teachability of teaching” and that “a good class discussion can be developed, rather than merely left to the randomness of chance or genetics.” He described the essential challenge of the case method as “exchanging... View Details
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9889.html Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss Authors:David I. Levine, Michael W. Toffel,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
larger number of organizations. The researchers have also started to work on management experiments, modeled on the randomized control trials adopted in the medical field. This experimental approach is much more costly and labor-... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel