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- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
buyouts on target firms and their workers vary greatly by deal type and market conditions. Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing An analysis of the adoption of A/B testing technology by 35,000 global startups... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching new women entrepreneurs about the rewards of taking risks
Sheila Marcelo (MBA 1998, JD 1999), Chairwoman of Care.com, talks about helping young women understand risk taking and experimentation to encourage entrepreneurial thinking. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
between and among experimenters and theorists, and psychologists and economists, about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
The results, written up in new working paper Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence, showed these restaurants enjoyed a significant spike in exposure, in actions such as map requests and calls to restaurants, and... View Details
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What We Do | Research Associates
and white papers. You might join a project at its infancy, contributing to the experimental design or participant recruitment. Or you could be part of the final push to bring a paper across the finish line. Wherever you fit into the... View Details
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Launch Lab/Capstone 1 - Course Catalog
system engineering methods to plan, design, develop, build, and test a complex technology-based product/service, integrating knowledge across multiple engineering disciplines. Business Knowledge: The use of business model analysis and lean View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
when goals can go off the rails. Research Paper Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence People are most at risk of making overly positive self-assessments when their assessment criteria are not clearly defined. Yet, even... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
they arrive at their decisions, and where biases may enter the process,” says Professor Karim Lakhani. The working paper “Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review,” by Lakhani and a group... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence People are most at risk of making overly positive self-assessments when their assessment criteria are not clearly defined. What do you think of this research? Has bias crawled into your own decision... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
pace of change. Attempting Too Much It is important for the new leader to experiment to discover what works and what doesn't. But too much experimentation can deprive promise change initiatives of resources or the attention they need to... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
market appeal at the cost of creativity. ARS LONGA Harvard University’s ArtLab opened in February on Allston’s North Harvard Street. The 9,000-square-foot “work-in-progress” space encourages interdisciplinary experimentation and... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Black History Month at HBS
within the US prior to enrolling at HBS. Learn more about eight of the RISE fellows and their work, motivations, and plans for the future: 2021 RISE Fellows Profiles. Piloting an Experimental and Experiential Course Senior Lecturers... View Details
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Marketing AI Guidelines | About
more. New uses are emerging every day. The marketing community across Harvard Business School (HBS) can benefit from the applications of AI, and several groups have already begun to use it in their day-to-day work. Although View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
Experimental Social Psychology Visual Attention to Powerful Postures: People Reflexively Avert Their Gaze from Nonverbal Dominance Displays By: Holland, Elise, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Christine Looser, and Amy Cuddy Abstract—This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
establish takeaways to guide the creation of future legislation. While current measurement systems are insufficient to make an unambiguous, overarching judgment of the act's net benefits, Srinivasan and Coates isolate a few clear findings and make a case for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
couple of years will see more experimentation with baggage pricing. The success of Emirates is due in part to the fact that airline, airport, and air traffic control work together under one “boss” shareholder—ultimately owned by the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
work out all of the interactions between modules every time you add a new function," asserts MacCormack. The authors also found that a design team with experience developing multiple product generations is helpful in a flexible process. Indeed, the evolution of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
experimentation while undertaking research and consultancies to influence policies on urbanization, disaster risk reduction, and social housing,” says Mehra. mHS pilots include modular shelters for homeless, bundling housing finance and... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
strategic management and to the literature on information disclosure. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40289 Experimental Evidence on Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry By: Schmidt, William,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel