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A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations

By: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg and Karim R. Lakhani

We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to understand the extent to which search costs affect matching among scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by... View Details

Keywords: Search Costs; Cost; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Science; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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April 2015
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Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

By: Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper

This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more profitable... View Details

Keywords: Banking; Management Processes; Credit Products; Experimental Economics; Risk Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry

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30 Nov 2022

Life at HBS Chat: The Latinx Experience hosted by LASO

Hosted by the HBS Latino Student Organization (LASO) familia and designed for prospective MBA students, this event is a unique opportunity to hear current HBS Latinx students share their experience at HBS, their application process, and... View Details

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

best program for me.” Stan had already gained an impressive amount of experience at Microsoft where he worked on operating systems and with online payments technology, responsibilities that “shaped my view on software development and how... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

15 May 2020
Blog Post

Words from an HBS Partner: Reflections on the Partner Experience

fine tune my career goals and sharpen my tools for recruiting. One of the highlights of my HBS experience is that I got a job on campus working as a Product Manager for the Student Association Products Office. As a result of this job, I... View Details

24 Feb 2023
Blog Post

My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program

discussion groups; and trading stories of life experiences and sidesplitting tales of professional gaffes in the HBS courtyard. Whatever awaited me at Harvard Business School, I thought, would be unforgettable. The SVMP Class of 2022 met... View Details

Article

Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By: S. Bernstein, A. Korteweg and K. Laws

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2003
Conference Presentation

The Contingency of Partnering Experience and the Gains From Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati

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The Romance of Community: Intentional Communities as Intensive Group Experience

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Groups and Teams; Emotions

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31 Aug 2016
News

Novartis Taps Biosimilar Experience in Europe to Snag U.S. Sales

10 Aug 2020

Get to Know HBS Series: Reflecting on the HBS Experience

Join Chad Losee, Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, as he moderates a panel of sectionmates to see where they are years after HBS! You will get to hear this group of alumni talk about their section experience, the case method, the community of... View Details

31 Jul 2020

Get to Know HBS Series: Reflecting on the HBS Experience

Join Chad Losee, Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, as he moderates a panel of sectionmates from the Class of 2015 to see where they are 5 years after HBS! You will get to hear this group of alumni talk about their section experience, the case... View Details

16 Jun 2020
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What Will the Retail Experience of the Future Look Like?

24 Jan 2023
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Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience

scholars from all over the world, here are my top 3 misconceptions from my experience at HBS. Myth #1: I don't deserve to be here. I initially struggled with imposter syndrome in the first few SVMP cases, feeling like I didn't have the... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

the student had interviewed industry leaders to better understand the barriers to growth that Indian private equity firms face — his analysis echoing findings from Sadun’s own research. “It built on intuitions that I already had, but seeing firsthand View Details

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Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

By: Nava Ashraf, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A. and Dean Yang

While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a randomized field experiment to investigate the importance of migrant control over the use of... View Details