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  • Research Summary

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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2012
  • HBS Seminar

Drazen Prelec, Professor of Management Science and Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management

    Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation.

    Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers' decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
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    Social psychologist Amy Cuddy, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, uses experimental methods to investigate how people judge each other and themselves. Her research suggests that judgments along two critical trait dimensions – warmth/trustworthiness and... View Details
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    By: Alison Wood Brooks
    Professor Brooks studies the psychology of conversation and emotion—topics at the intersection of how people think, feel, and interact. From pitching ideas to seeking advice, from asking questions to giving compliments, from talking about (or hiding) our feelings and... View Details
    Keywords: Anxiety; Emotion; Emotion Regulation; Reappraisal; Negotiation; Trust; Performance
    • 08 Feb 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

    • Article

    Reliable Post hoc Explanations: Modeling Uncertainty in Explainability

    By: Dylan Slack, Sophie Hilgard, Sameer Singh and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As black box explanations are increasingly being employed to establish model credibility in high stakes settings, it is important to ensure that these explanations are accurate and reliable. However, prior work demonstrates that explanations generated by... View Details
    Keywords: Black Box Explanations; Bayesian Modeling; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Technology
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    • 21 May 2014
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

    As a Harvard Business School professor for 20 years, V.G. Narayanan has significant experience using the School's pioneering case method to teach business concepts—introducing a real-world management problem, and then using the Socratic... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Using Technology to Augment Professionals, Instead of Replacing Them, for Innovative Problem Solving

    By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Felicia Ng, Aniket Kittur and Robert Kraut
    While in some technological and scientific areas innovation is flourishing, in others it is stalling, leaving important problems unsolved for decades. One explanation is professionals’ limitations as problem solvers, as accumulating depth of knowledge enhances one’s... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Expertise; Future Of Work; Crowdsourcing; Artificial Intelligence; Problem Solving; Professionalism; Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development
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    • 13 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

    students went through the experimental session wearing 15-pound backpacks, while the other half wore 5-pound backpacks. The results showed that participants wearing a heavy backpack indeed experienced higher levels of guilt than the light... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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    The Similarity Heuristic

    By: Daniel Read and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
    Decision makers often make snap judgments using fast‐and‐frugal decision rules called cognitive heuristics. Research into cognitive heuristics has been divided into two camps. One camp has emphasized the limitations and biases produced by the heuristics; another has... View Details
    Keywords: Heuristics And Biases; Fast-and-frugal Heuristics; Similarity; Representative Design
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    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

    community-based organizations. COVID-19 has disrupted GPP’s school-based activities, which include teacher training and the Teen Advisory Council, a program that supports students as they educate their peers about the dangers of prescription drug misuse and View Details
    Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

    By: Iavor I Bojinov, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
    In switchback experiments, a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to a random treatment, measures its response, and repeats the procedure for several periods to determine which treatment leads to the best outcome. Although practitioners have widely adopted... View Details
    Keywords: Switchback Experiments; Design; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
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    • 2023
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    Towards Bridging the Gaps between the Right to Explanation and the Right to Be Forgotten

    By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Satyapriya Krishna and Jiaqi Ma
    The Right to Explanation and the Right to be Forgotten are two important principles outlined to regulate algorithmic decision making and data usage in real-world applications. While the right to explanation allows individuals to request an actionable explanation for an... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Decision Making; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Population Interference in Panel Experiments

    By: Iavor I Bojinov, Kevin Wu Han and Guillaume Basse
    The phenomenon of population interference, where a treatment assigned to one experimental unit affects another experimental unit's outcome, has received considerable attention in standard randomized experiments. The complications produced by population interference in... View Details
    Keywords: Finite Population; Potential Outcomes; Dynamic Causal Effects; Mathematical Methods
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    • July 2023
    • Article

    Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

    By: Iavor I Bojinov, David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao
    In switchback experiments, a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to a random treatment, measures its response, and repeats the procedure for several periods to determine which treatment leads to the best outcome. Although practitioners have widely adopted... View Details
    Keywords: Switchback Experiments; Design; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
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    A Choice Prediction Competition for Market Entry Games: An Introduction

    By: Ido Erev, Eyal Ert and Alvin E. Roth
    A choice prediction competition is organized that focuses on decisions from experience in market entry games (http://sites.google.com/site/gpredcomp/ and http://www.mdpi.com/si/games/predict-behavior/). The competition is based on two experiments: An estimation... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Learning; Market Entry and Exit; Game Theory; Behavior; Competition
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    • 01 Jul 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

    democratize entry and allow for more experimentation to take place," says Nanda. "On the other hand, skeptics will say that these are companies that should not have been funded in the first place, and when it's time to scale up... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 25 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Keywords: by Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan & Karim Lakhani; Health
    • June 2008
    • Article

    Minimally Acceptable Altruism and the Ultimatum Game

    By: Julio J. Rotemberg
    I suppose that people react with anger when others show themselves not to be minimally altruistic. With heterogeneous agents, this can account for the experimental results of ultimatum and dictator games. Moreover, it can account for the surprisingly large fraction of... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Game Theory; Mathematical Methods
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