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- 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
- 30 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
- 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
Colonnelli, Emanuele, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza, and Edoardo Teso. "Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32170, February 2024.
- 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
- 24 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
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
- June 2023
- Article
The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information
By: Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. Access to salary information is believed to be limited and unequal, but there is little direct evidence on the sources of... View Details
Keywords: Search Costs; Privacy; Norms; Compensation; Financial Industry; Field Experiment; Knowledge Dissemination; Equality and Inequality; Gender; Compensation and Benefits; Societal Protocols
Cullen, Zoë, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information." Art. 104890. Journal of Public Economics 222 (June 2023).
- 2023
- Working Paper
Translating Information into Action: A Public Health Experiment in Bangladesh
By: Reshmaan Hussam, Kailash Pandey, Abu Shonchoy and Chikako Yamauchi
While models of technology adoption posit learning as the basis of behavior change, information campaigns in public health frequently fail to change behavior. We design an information campaign embedding hand-hygiene edutainment within popular dramas using mobile... View Details
Hussam, Reshmaan, Kailash Pandey, Abu Shonchoy, and Chikako Yamauchi. "Translating Information into Action: A Public Health Experiment in Bangladesh." Working Paper, February 2023.
- 22 Nov 2010
- News
The Business of Weird: Why People Pay for Bizarre Experiences
- 2014
- Working Paper
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; Immigration; Diasporas; International Finance; El Salvador
Ashraf, Nava, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A., and Dean Yang. "Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20024, March 2014. (Review of Economics and Statistics, accepted.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the service experience requires excellence—but not in everything
Everyone knows what bad service feels like—and that’s something Frances Frei, Professor at HBS, wants to fix. Making the service experience better for everyone, from customers to employees, begins with understanding the services customers... View Details
- 2018
- Article
Prior Ties and the Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance
By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent startup team's performance. We find that teams whose members lack prior ties to others at the bootcamp experience peer effects that... View Details
Keywords: Field Experiment; Peer Effects; Office Space; Knowledge Spillovers; Accelerators; Entrepreneurship; Knowledge Sharing; Performance; Technology Industry; India
Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning. "Prior Ties and the Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance." Strategic Management Journal 40, no. 9 (September 2019): 1394–1416.
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
operations. NASA ran 17 challenges with prizes that ranged from $250 to $5,000 and included a promise that features from winning entries would be incorporated in future Astrobee designs. The contests drew more than 250 proposals. The... View Details
- 12 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
- 2023
- Working Paper
Personalized Game Design for Improved User Retention and Monetization in Freemium Games
By: Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Julian Runge
One of the most crucial aspects and significant levers that gaming companies possess in designing
digital games is setting the level of difficulty, which essentially regulates the user’s ability to
progress within the game. This aspect is particularly significant in... View Details
Keywords: Freemium; Retention/churn; Field Experiment; Field Experiments; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Mobile App; Mobile App Industry; Monetization; Monetization Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Customers; Retention; Product Design; Strategy
Ascarza, Eva, Oded Netzer, and Julian Runge. "Personalized Game Design for Improved User Retention and Monetization in Freemium Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-062, November 2020. (Revised December 2023.)
- 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,... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 08 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 Lorena Hernandez, MBA 2025. This virtual event is open to all prospective students. View Details
- November 2009
- Article
Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya
By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export crops, conducted a randomized trial to evaluate its impact. DrumNet services increased production of export crops... View Details
Keywords: Export Crop; Field Experiment; Food Safety Standards; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Trade; Profit; Marketing; Standards; Failure; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Kenya; European Union
Ashraf, Nava, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan. "Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91, no. 4 (November 2009): 973–990.
- 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... View Details