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  • 02 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

Getting a Peek Into the HBS Experience

Massachusetts. In the following section, we present his insights and experiences during his participation in Peek. Why did you decide to participate in Peek? I discovered Peek through the MBA Admissions... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

The Peek Weekend Stem Cohort Experience

out of your comfort zone and try something you never thought you would be good at. So take a chance! Apply! You truly have to experience the uniqueness of HBS for yourself. HBS Peek admissions does a great... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2013
  • News

To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience

  • 12 May 2020
  • News

The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

  • April 2014
  • Article

Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott S. Lee
Organizations often use non-monetary awards to incentivize performance. Awards may affect behavior through several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker... View Details
Keywords: Social Comparison; Awards; Optimal Expectactions; Zambia; Status and Position; Performance Expectations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Zambia
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  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Video

Andres Sarmiento describes his experience founding a technology start-up

  • 07 Jul 2022
  • Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

over one million unfilled engineering roles in the US and the average tenure is only two years. The stakes are higher than ever to retain and hire software talent. As we studied View Details
  • 17 May 2022
  • Cold Call Podcast

Delivering a Personalized Shopping Experience with AI

Keywords: Re: Jill J. Avery
  • April 2020
  • Article

A Theory of Experimenters: Robustness, Randomization, and Balance

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Sylvain Chassang, Sergio Montero and Erik Snowberg
This paper studies the problem of experiment design by an ambiguity-averse decisionmaker who trades off subjective expected performance against robust performance guarantees. This framework accounts for real-world experimenters’ preference for randomization. It also... View Details
Keywords: Experiment Design; Experimenters; Theory; Performance
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    Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia

    The literature on the private provision of public goods suggests an inverse relationship between incentives to contribute and group size. We find, however, that after an exogenous reduction of group size at Chinese Wikipedia, the nonblocked contributors decrease... View Details
    • 1995
    • Chapter

    The Role of Dominant Identity and Experience in Organizational Work on Diversity

    By: R. J. Ely
    Keywords: Working Conditions; Identity; Experience and Expertise; Diversity
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    • July–August 2023
    • Article

    Demand Learning and Pricing for Varying Assortments

    By: Kris Ferreira and Emily Mower
    Problem Definition: We consider the problem of demand learning and pricing for retailers who offer assortments of substitutable products that change frequently, e.g., due to limited inventory, perishable or time-sensitive products, or the retailer’s desire to... View Details
    Keywords: Experiments; Pricing And Revenue Management; Retailing; Demand Estimation; Pricing Algorithm; Marketing; Price; Demand and Consumers; Mathematical Methods
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    • 01 Apr 2001
    • News

    K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience

    Valley-based Walden International takes a hands-on approach when it backs new enterprises, insisting on monthly board meetings and close cooperation. Chia is well suited to this coaching technique. While most venture capitalists in Asia... View Details
    Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Hewlitt-Packard; Apple; Finance; Telecommunications; Information
    • 21 May 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment

    Keywords: by Doug J. Chung & Das Narayandas
    • April 2021
    • Teaching Note

    Hot Wheels: Launching the Mixed-Play Experience

    By: Elie Ofek and Andres Terech
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    • Apr 03 2018
    • Testimonial

    Immersing Yourself in the Student Experience

    • 24 Apr 2018
    • News

    Why Too Much Experience Can Backfire

    • 16 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Making the Gambler’s Fallacy Disappear: The Role of Experience

    Keywords: by Gregory M. Barron & Stephen Leider
    • 22 Oct 2021
    • Blog Post

    Video Blog: My Experience with Career Services at HBS

    want to be intentional coming into business school. Harvard offers career coaching from the time you become a student here. So I signed up for my coach, his name is Doug, he's amazing. And in our first session, he just had me talk through... View Details
    • February 2018
    • Article

    Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women

    By: Nancy R. Baldiga and Katherine Baldiga Coffman
    Sponsorship programs have been proposed as one way to promote female advancement in competitive career fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making; Laboratory Experiment; Competition; Organizations; Gender; Behavior
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