Publications

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
News

What Will the Retail Experience of the Future Look Like?

Article

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

Keywords: Migration; Remittances; Intrahousehold Allocation; Savings; Saving; Residency; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; El Salvador; United States

2006
Working Paper

Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

By: Nava Ashraf, James Berry and Jesse M. Shapiro

The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the developing world rests, in part, on whether higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use... View Details

Keywords: Price; Attitudes; Health Industry; Zambia

30 Jul 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience

Keywords: by Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats; Video Game; Web Services

October 1997
Article

Real Interest Rates and Growth: Improving on Some Deflating Experiences

By: Huw Pill

spring 1987
Article

Facilitating Group Creativity: Experience with a Group Decision Support System

By: J. Nunamaker, L. M. Applegate and B. Konsynski

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Creativity; Decision Making

2005
Other Unpublished Work

Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Role of Experience and Specialization

By: P. Gompers, Anna R. Kovner, Josh Lerner and David S. Scharfstein

Keywords: Venture Capital

1991
Chapter

Financing Sub-National Government Expenditures: Perspectives from the United States Experience

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Government and Politics; Cost; Local Range; United States

20 Aug 2021
Video

My Experience as a Veteran in the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France

This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in Francois Hollande’s campaign in the 2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized... View Details

Research Summary

What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Testing the Legal Bonding Hypothesis

On March 29, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its intention to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. securities antifraud regime and thus differentially exclude U.S.-listed foreign firms from the ambit of formal U.S. antifraud enforcement. We use this legal... View Details

Keywords: Securities Litigation; Corporate Governance

July 2023
Article

So, Who Likes You? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

By: Ravi Bapna, Edward McFowland III, Probal Mojumder, Jui Ramaprasad and Akhmed Umyarov

With one-third of marriages in the United States beginning online, online dating platforms have become important curators of the modern social fabric. Prior work on online dating has elicited two critical frictions in the heterosexual dating market. Women, governed by... View Details

Keywords: Online Dating; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Gender; Emotions; Social and Collaborative Networks

Purchase

2015
Chapter

International Migration and U.S. Innovation: Insights from the U.S. Experience

By: William R. Kerr

July 2009
Article

How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Eric D. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed and Charles Cohen

We use oil price fluctuations to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Aid; Money