Publications

01 Dec 2000
News

In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience

and valuable experience to be right there." But being "right there" last summer meant being in a region rife with political and social unrest. It is widely believed that... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas)

1995
Chapter

Securities Transaction Taxes: What about International Experiences Migrating Markets?

By: John Y. Campbell and Kenneth A. Froot

Keywords: Corporation Taxation; Interest Deductibility; Cost of Capital; Taxation; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Corporate Finance

2016
Chapter

A Global Dialogue on Liberal Arts and Sciences: Re-engagement, Re-imagination, and Experimentation

By: William C. Kirby and Marijk C. van der Wende

Book Abstract: This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why... View Details

Keywords: International And Comparative Education; Educational Policy And Politics; Education; Global Range; Arts; Science; Education Industry

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2022
Article

Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment

By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West

Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of... View Details

Keywords: Time; Subjective Well Being; Administrative Costs; Friction; Poverty; Well-being; Money; Perception; Kenya

August 2009
Article

Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles

By: Robin Greenwood and Stefan Nagel

We use mutual fund manager data from the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the... View Details

Keywords: Asset Price Bubbles; Investment Experience; Investor Age; Trend Chasing; Investment; Experience and Expertise; Age; Behavioral Finance; Price Bubble; Information Technology; Stocks

11 Oct 2021
News

Nobel Winners Found Economic Experiments in the Real World

April 2003
Article

R&D Comes to Services: Bank of America's Pathbreaking Experiments

By: Stefan Thomke

Keywords: Research and Development; Service Delivery; Banking Industry

30 Nov 2018
Blog Post

8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS

plan had failed. I refused to look up to see my friend smirking at me. This is the essence of the case method. You come in with a view. The class ebbs and flows. Classmates with industry experience weigh in... View Details

Article

Teaching Auction Strategy Using Experiments Administered via the Internet

By: John Asker, Brit Grosskopf, C. Nicholas McKinney, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and George Weizsäcker

Keywords: Teaching; Auctions; Strategy; Online Technology

Article

Financial Analysis of Pediatric Resident Physician Primary Care Longitudinal Outpatient Experience

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Carole H. Stipelman, Brad Poss, Laura Anne Stetson, Luca Boi, Michael Rogers, Caleb Puzey, Sri Koduri, Vivian S. Lee and Edward B. Clark

Objective
To determine whether residency training represents a net positive or negative cost to academic medical centers, we analyzed the cost of a residency program and clinical productivity of residents and faculty in an outpatient primary care practice with or... View Details

Keywords: Academic Medicine; Cost; Children; Graduate Medical Education

December 2013
Article

How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang

The well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal question using a natural experiment... View Details

Keywords: Staggered Board; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Proxy Fight; Tobin's; Firm Value; Agency Cost; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance

2024
Working Paper

Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza and Edoardo Teso

We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement supervisory and anti-corruption... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Trust; Perception; Business and Government Relations

06 Dec 2023

Diverse Student Voices Series: The Black & Latino Experience

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 Chloe Sharp, MBA 2024 and AASU Admissions VP. This virtual event is open... View Details

30 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

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

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz & Leora Klapper

2024
Working Paper

The Narrative AI Advantage? A Field Experiment on Generative AI-Augmented Evaluations of Early-Stage Innovations

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Léonard Boussioux, Charles Ayoubi, Ying Hao Chen, Camila Lin, Rebecca Spens, Pooja Wagh and Pei-Hsin Wang

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming creative problem-solving, necessitating new approaches for evaluating innovative solutions. This study explores how human-AI collaboration can enhance early-stage evaluations, focusing on the interplay... View Details

Keywords: Large Language Models; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation and Invention; Decision Making

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... View Details

22 Jul 2024

Diverse Student Voices Series: The Black & Latino Experience

Join us for a 20-minute webinar with a current student and get a peek into their life at HBS. On this episode, we’re chatting with Daniel Quental, (MBA 2025), who is currently interning as an Investor at Mu Ventures, a NY-based pre-seed... View Details

May 2022
Article

Unprecedented Training: Experience of Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Nicholas Stark, Tuna Cem Hayirli, Aditi Bhanja, Michaela J. Kerrissey, James Hardy and Christopher Peabody