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  • 25 Jan 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Effects of Quota Frequency on Sales Force Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung and Das Narayandas
  • Forthcoming
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Should Human Capital Development Programs Be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
In a field experiment, we find large differences in productivity treatment effects between voluntary and mandatory workplace mentorship programs. A significant portion of this difference is due to the best employees opting into the program when it is voluntary and... View Details
Keywords: Mentoring; Mentorship Programs; Randomized Controlled Trial; Performance Productivity; Employees; Talent and Talent Management; Programs
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Sandvik, Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton. "Should Human Capital Development Programs Be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment." Management Science (forthcoming).
  • Mar 2014
  • Conference Presentation

Institutionalist Economics and Managed Competition: The U.S. Experiment with a Coordinated Market Economy, 1920-1940

By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
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Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Institutionalist Economics and Managed Competition: The U.S. Experiment with a Coordinated Market Economy, 1920-1940." Paper presented at the Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany, March 2014.
  • December 2019
  • Article

The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Donald Ngwe, Kris J. Ferreira and Thales Teixeira
Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing small obstacles to locating discounted items can improve online retailers’ margins and even... View Details
Keywords: Online Retailing; Friction; Effor; Search Costs; Price Discrimination; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Strategy; Price; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry
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Ngwe, Donald, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira. "The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 56, no. 6 (December 2019): 944–959.
  • Video

2019 G&WS: Liz Johnson (Harvard Business School) Presents Flash Talk: “Life and Leadership after HBS: Sexual Harassment Experiences and Beliefs”

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Bringing Individuals Back In: The Effects of Career Experience on New Firm Founding (forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change, 2003)

By: Rakesh Khurana
In this paper (with Scott Shane) the link between the career experiences of potential entrepreneurs and the decision to found a new firm is explored. Because of methodological and theoretical obstacles, sociological research on organizational foundings has largely... View Details
  • June 2022
  • Article

Conservatism Gets Funded? A Field Experiment on the Role of Negative Information in Novel Project Evaluation

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
The evaluation and selection of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet there are persistent concerns about bias, such as conservatism. This paper investigates the role that the format of evaluation, specifically information... View Details
Keywords: Project Evaluation; Innovation; Knowledge Frontier; Information Sharing; Negativity Bias; Projects; Innovation and Invention; Information; Knowledge Sharing
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Lane, Jacqueline N., Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Conservatism Gets Funded? A Field Experiment on the Role of Negative Information in Novel Project Evaluation." Management Science 68, no. 6 (June 2022): 4478–4495.
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Focusing on Lone Trees in the Forest: Members' Experience of a Multiple Identity Organization

By: Michel Anteby and Amy Wrzesniewski
Keywords: Employees
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Anteby, Michel, and Amy Wrzesniewski. "Focusing on Lone Trees in the Forest: Members' Experience of a Multiple Identity Organization." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2007).
  • spring 1978
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Foreign Investment from the Third World: The Experience of Chinese Firms from Hong Kong

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Global Range; Learning; Hong Kong
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Wells, L. T., Jr. "Foreign Investment from the Third World: The Experience of Chinese Firms from Hong Kong." Columbia Journal of World Business (spring 1978): 39–49. (Also reprinted in Henry Wai-Chung Yeung (ed.), The Globalization of Business Firms from Emerging Markets. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 2000.)
  • 2025
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Statistical Inference for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Discovered by Generic Machine Learning in Randomized Experiments

By: Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li
Researchers are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) algorithms to investigate causal heterogeneity in randomized experiments. Despite their promise, ML algorithms may fail to accurately ascertain heterogeneous treatment effects under practical settings with... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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Imai, Kosuke, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "Statistical Inference for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Discovered by Generic Machine Learning in Randomized Experiments." Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 43, no. 1 (2025): 256–268.
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Should Human Capital Development Programs Be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
In a field experiment, we find large differences in productivity treatment effects between voluntary and mandatory workplace mentorship programs. A significant portion of this difference is due to the best employees opting into the program when it is voluntary and... View Details
Keywords: Mentoring; Mentorship Programs; Randomized Controlled Trial; Employees; Relationships; Programs; Performance
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Sandvik, Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton. "Should Human Capital Development Programs Be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29148, August 2021. (Accepted at Management Science.)
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Effect of Financial Performance Measurement on Customer Satisfaction: A Field Experiment in China

By: Daniel A. Brown
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Brown, Daniel A. "The Effect of Financial Performance Measurement on Customer Satisfaction: A Field Experiment in China." Working Paper, December 2016.
  • 2017
  • Other Unpublished Work

Show or Tell?: Behavioral Inventory Response to an East African Mobile Money Field Experiment

By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
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Acimovic, Jason, Chris Parker, David F. Drake, and Karthik Balasubramanian. "Show or Tell?: Behavioral Inventory Response to an East African Mobile Money Field Experiment." 2017. (Work in progress. Completed field experiment involving more than 4,500 Tanzanian mobile money agents.)
  • 2002
  • Working Paper

Promise and Peril in Implementing Pay for Performance: A Report on Thirteen Natural Experiments

By: Michael Beer and Mark D. Cannon
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Beer, Michael, and Mark D. Cannon. "Promise and Peril in Implementing Pay for Performance: A Report on Thirteen Natural Experiments." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 02-064, March 2002.
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Summer Venture in Management Program Offers Insights into Harvard MBA Experience - Evan Huddleson

  • February 2021
  • Tutorial

Assessing Prediction Accuracy of Machine Learning Models

By: Michael Toffel and Natalie Epstein
This video describes how to assess the accuracy of machine learning prediction models, primarily in the context of machine learning models that predict binary outcomes, such as logistic regression, random forest, or nearest neighbor models. After introducing and... View Details
Keywords: Statistics; Experiments; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; AI and Machine Learning
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Toffel, Michael, and Natalie Epstein. Assessing Prediction Accuracy of Machine Learning Models. Harvard Business School Tutorial 621-706, February 2021. (Click here to access this tutorial.)
  • March–April 2020
  • Article

Building A Culture of Experimentation

By: Stefan Thomke
Why don’t organizations test more? After examining this question for several years, I can tell you that the central reason is culture. As companies try to scale up their experimentation capacity, they often find that the obstacles are not tools and technology but... View Details
Keywords: Experimentation; Culture; Innovation; Online; Customer Experience; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Internet and the Web; Attitudes; Decision Making; Change; Leadership
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Thomke, Stefan. "Building A Culture of Experimentation." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 2 (March–April 2020): 40–48.
  • September–October 2017
  • Article

The Surprising Power of Online Experiments: Getting the Most Out of A/B and Other Controlled Tests

By: Ron Kohavi and Stefan Thomke
In the fast-moving digital world, even experts have a hard time assessing new ideas. Case in point: At Bing, a small headline change an employee proposed was deemed a low priority and shelved for months until one engineer decided to do a quick online controlled... View Details
Keywords: Experiments; A/B Testing; Research; Consumer Behavior
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Kohavi, Ron, and Stefan Thomke. "The Surprising Power of Online Experiments: Getting the Most Out of A/B and Other Controlled Tests." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 5 (September–October 2017): 74–82.
  • 2018
  • Other Unpublished Work

The Upsides of Bingeing: How Consumption Rate Affects Perceptions of Consumers, Brands, and Experiences

By: Anne Wilson and Anat Keinan
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Wilson, Anne, and Anat Keinan. "The Upsides of Bingeing: How Consumption Rate Affects Perceptions of Consumers, Brands, and Experiences." November 2018.
  • Book Review

Review of Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century, by Youssef Cassis

By: Jeffrey Fear
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Fear, Jeffrey. "Review of Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century, by Youssef Cassis." Business History Review 72, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 144–47.
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