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June 1975 (Revised July 1975)
Background Note

Experience and Cost: Some Implications for Manufacturing Policy

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Cost Management

2023
Working Paper

Culture as a Signal: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

By: Wei Cai, Dennis Campbell and Jiehang Yu

The importance of culture as an informal management control system is increasingly acknowledged in academia. While prior research mainly focuses on the value of culture on internal stakeholders (e.g., employees), we examine whether culture serves as a credible signal... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Customer Focus and Relationships

SSRN

24 Apr 2014
News

Showing possibilities and new experiences to young people

Sam Duboc (MBA 1988), a private equity investor, talks about leading the nonprofit Pathways to Education to open possibilities and new experiences to young people in Canada. (Published April 2014) View Details

1979
Book

Life in Organizations: Workplaces as People Experience Them

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and B. A. Stein

Keywords: Working Conditions

Article

Airbnb Slips a Grand Experiment Into Its IPO

By: Scott Duke Kominers

September 2018
Supplement

AMC Entertainment: Creating a Spectacular Moviegoing Experience (B)

By: Henry McGee and Aldo Sesia

The (B) case describes how AMC reacted to the threat from the subscription service MoviePass and provides AMC’s second quarter fiscal year 2018 results. View Details

Keywords: Exhibitors; Movies; Film Entertainment; Competitive Strategy; Finance; Performance

Article

New Physicians: A Natural Experiment in Market Organization

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Markets; Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

July 1995
Teaching Note

Merloni Elettrodomestici SpA: The Transit Point Experiment TN

By: Janice H. Hammond

Teaching Note for (9-690-003). View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry; Italy

06 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 Mireya Iglesias Ayala, MBA 2025. This virtual event is open to all prospective students. View Details

19 Jan 2023
Video

What is the Harvard MBA experience really like?

13 Oct 2014
News

Experiment with Organizational Change Before Going All In

Keywords: organizational change; behavioral economics; strategy

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Video Blog: My Experience in the Joint MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program

perspective on what's been good and what some of the challenges are with the MS/MBA Program is interesting and helpful, especially if you're thinking about applying. I definitely think it's been a great experience both from the types of... View Details

March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
Teaching Note

Camera IQ and the Metaverse: Building Augmented Reality Brand Experiences

By: Jill Avery

Camera IQ, a camera marketing software company that empowered brands to create and launch augmented reality experiences (AREs) across social platforms, had just raised an additional $5 million to fund further product development and expand its marketing and sales... View Details

February 2018
Article

Maintaining Beliefs in the Face of Negative News: The Moderating Role of Experience

By: Bradley R. Staats, Diwas S. KC and F. Gino

Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their beliefs, individuals may persevere in their prior beliefs. In... View Details

Keywords: Information; Announcements; Service Operations; Decision Making; Medical Specialties; Experience and Expertise; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

spring 1987
Article

Second-Sourcing and the Experience Curve: Price Competition in Defense Procurement

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao

We examine a dynamic model of price competition in defense procurement that incorporates the experience curve, asymmetric cost information, and the availability of a higher cost alternative system. We model acquisition as a two-stage process in which initial production... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Government and Politics; Price; Competition; Mathematical Methods

1989
Chapter

Attitudes Toward Women and the Experience of Leadership

By: R. J. Ely

Keywords: Leadership; Attitudes; Gender; Experience and Expertise

January 2008
Article

Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Long spells of unemployment are known to reduce the likelihood of re-employment, but it is difficult to discern the reasons for this observation. Using an experimental method that controls for search intensity and possible discouragement of job applicants, I document... View Details

Keywords: Job Search; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Creativity; Human Needs; Job Interviews; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Managerial Roles; Judgments; Employment Industry