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- January 2010
- Article
The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy
By: Greg Barron and Stephen Leider
Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a decision problem, by experience or by abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Acquisition; Outcome or Result; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias
Barron, Greg, and Stephen Leider. "The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy." Special Issue on Decisions from Experience. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 23, no. 1 (January 2010).
Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates
Abstract
Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details
- 12 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities
Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
- 03 Oct 2013
- HBS Seminar
Yanbo Wang, Boston University
Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work
Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
- Research Summary
1. When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry
Joint work with Tarun Khanna (Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School).
Abstract: What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry... View Details
- 01 Feb 2019
- HBS Seminar
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
- 2020
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships
Organizations are formed in a free economy because an individual or group perceives value in carrying out a technical recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be assembled, what actions taken in... View Details
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-039, September 2020.
- 26 Oct 2017
- HBS Seminar
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University
- 20 Feb 2014
- HBS Seminar
Teck Ho, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business
- 11 Feb 2019
- HBS Seminar
Peter Belmi, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
- 2023
- Other Article
The Harvard USPTO Patent Dataset: A Large-Scale, Well-Structured, and Multi-Purpose Corpus of Patent Applications
By: Mirac Suzgun, Luke Melas-Kyriazi, Suproteem K. Sarkar, Scott Duke Kominers and Stuart Shieber
Innovation is a major driver of economic and social development, and information about many kinds of innovation is embedded in semi-structured data from patents and patent applications. Though the impact and novelty of innovations expressed in patent data are difficult... View Details
Keywords: USPTO; Natural Language Processing; Classification; Summarization; Patent Novelty; Patent Trolls; Patent Enforceability; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science
Suzgun, Mirac, Luke Melas-Kyriazi, Suproteem K. Sarkar, Scott Duke Kominers, and Stuart Shieber. "The Harvard USPTO Patent Dataset: A Large-Scale, Well-Structured, and Multi-Purpose Corpus of Patent Applications." Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Datasets and Benchmarks Track 36 (2023).
- Winter 2021
- Article
Mobile Internet Usage and Usage-based Pricing
By: Jeffrey Prince and Shane Greenstein
Using data on mobile Internet usage of thousands of individuals, we provide some of the first analyses linking mobile usage to key demographics such as income. We find a reverse-U relationship between mobile Internet usage and income—notably different than the... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Internet Usage; Pricing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Demographics; Income; Price; Strategy
Prince, Jeffrey, and Shane Greenstein. "Mobile Internet Usage and Usage-based Pricing." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 30, no. 4 (Winter 2021): 760–783.
- Web
Program Details - Doctoral
Summer Project Work. Fellows are assigned 1:1 to an HBS faculty mentor to work on 1 summer project; Write a Project Abstract. Fellows are expected write a summary of their project work to be featured in the Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Village View Details
- Article
The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education
By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang
For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our... View Details
Pearce, Jone L., and Laura Huang. "The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education." Academy of Management Learning & Education 11, no. 2 (June 2012): 247–262.
- 29 Jan 2019
- HBS Seminar
Bryan Bollinger, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University
- 20 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
but because they are more likely to include distinctive details or context that aid recall. By contrast, statistics and numbers, being abstract concepts, can be harder for the human mind to recall and are more likely to get tangled or... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 15 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better
thinking about driving in abstract terms, like “driving well.” Says De Freitas, “Ad campaigns can remind them of concrete ways in which they are not ideal drivers, such as the last time they sped, did not fully stop at a stop sign, or... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- HBS Seminar