Field Experiment - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

Markov chain, we are able to combine these two models to characterize the putts-to-go for the field from any distance on the green for the PGA TOUR. The results of this Markov model match both the empirical expectation and variance of... View Details

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

the case method. Succinctly introduces the benefits, format, and process while offering lots of "how-to" advice. Widely used as an introductory handout for executive, MBA, and undergraduate courses. Describes how case discussion enables the exchange of managerial View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Entrepreneurs. Since joining the HBS faculty in 1986, she also served as Co-Chair of the HBS MBA Program, Chair of Field Based Learning, and Co-Chair of the Harvard Policy Group on Networked Government Services. Prior to joining the HBS... View Details

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

world's foremost scholars in fields ranging from psychology to economics, sociology, and history. “Leadership is based on complex phenomena." -Rakesh Khurana As Khurana explains below, leadership—what it means, why it matters—is an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

21 Sep 2020
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Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

During World War II, the predecessor to the US Central Intelligence Agency produced a secret field manual detailing how “citizen-saboteurs” could disrupt the operations of enemy organizations. In addition to inflicting physical damage,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Team - Case Method Project

Chaderjian is a member of the teacher support team who partners with educators as they train in and utilize the case method in high school classrooms. Motivated by the conviction that immersive engagement with history is foundational to cultivating vibrant civic... View Details

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

broader field of study. Microprocess research in organizational studies reveals implicit phenomenological assumptions that vary in the extent to which microprocesses are treated as parts of larger systems. We suggest that phenomenological... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Portrait Project

Kanwulia Gwam

The grass field in front of my apartment building became whatever us neighborhood kids needed it to be. On this cool summer afternoon, it became my laboratory, and the experiment was my identity. I was in... View Details

30 Jun 2022
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Scaling Hope

them. It was a night that would change both his son’s life and D’Antonio’s. Today, both men work in the field of addiction treatment. D’Antonio’s son, now with more than six years of continuous sobriety, is trained as a peer recovery... View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“launching pad” for students just starting to explore interests in social impact across multiple sectors, or for students with deep experience in the space looking to meet like-minded peers. Social Enterprise Conference An annual two-day... View Details

30 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

human time or human understanding of complexity, I can identify the things that GPT suggests actually matter, and then iterate on those with real data and real consumers to get human-based results,” she says. Developing the right prompt Products included in the View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and constraints on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2022
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Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

LinkedIn’s People You May Know (PYMK) feature, which uses an algorithm to suggest new connections to members. LinkedIn constantly improves the algorithm by introducing new versions and testing them using randomized experiments for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

seemed to neatly divide politics and markets, states and economies. "The new history of American capitalism targets the lived experience of people and groups as they assimilate—and reshape—the political economy they engage" The... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani More Health Care Research MBA Courses Lab to Market: View Details

23 May 2018
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Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, majoring in art history, a subject that helped her “look at things from many different angles,” she says. “My father was interested in technology and impressed upon me how important it was to business,” adds Johnson,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives alone or with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Ferriola Syracuse High School Syracuse, UT HI Ian Ferris Waipahu High School Waipau, HI Subjects: Participation in Democracy, Political Science NY Jennie Ferry Brooklyn Technical High School New York, NY TN Scott Field Blyth-Templeton... View Details

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