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  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

developing innovative products and services. He discusses the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs; managing experimentation and problem-solving; product-development process design and improvement; and... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial

Test Room (ca. 1930): Selected to work in an experimental test room, six young women employees noted, as did Mayo, that the setting’s intimacy engendered stronger friendships than occurred on the factory floor. Over time, their... View Details
Keywords: Elton Mayo; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Telecommunications; Information
  • 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
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 08 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

waiting in line at the airport. Later, he decided to conduct a field experiment to explore the question. He and a team of experimenters equipped with small bills approached 500 people in lines and offered a cash payment of up to $10 to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Clicks and Mortar

Here, Senior Lecturer Jill Avery and Associate Professor Antonio Moreno discuss the new rules of retail. What’s different about the physical storefront in this renaissance of retail? Jill Avery: There’s a lot of experimentation around... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • Web

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
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

discontinuity. This might suggest that financing is not a central input of angel groups. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/KLS-Angels-June2011.pdf Incentive Schemes, Sorting and Behavioral Biases of Employees: Experimental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

grew. That meant that as more features were added or tweaked, there were more farmers to provide useful feedback from the field. "The more farmers you have, the better data you have," Cook said. Experimentation can be hard for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 26 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

did something good for the environment, so you can have a cookie.” New experimental research shows that shoppers are more likely to buy virtuous organic items when they bring their own reusable bags to the store than when they opt for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

Social Responsibility: Punishing Transgressions Under Conflicting Obligations By: Gino, Francesca, Celia Moore, and Lamar Pierce Abstract—This paper combines experimental and field data to examine how those with discretion over punishment... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 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
  • Web

Negotiation - Course Catalog

experimenter and subject. Sometimes the most important learning comes from apparent "failure"-and so the course is designed to let you fail in the safe setting of a classroom, and thus help you avoid costly real mistakes. All of the... View Details
  • Web

Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

strategies and tactics for managing risk vs. reward. Historically, most entrepreneurship courses (at HBS, and elsewhere) disproportionately focus on consumer- and /or software-centric business model and product experimentation tools... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity

junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The most prevalent form of 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
  • 02 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France, conducted with French professors Céline Braconnier and Jean-Yves Dormagen, the researchers examined the difficulties citizens had in registering to vote in the French presidential... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

comes to Black Friday and this holiday season. Instead of projecting certainty in an uncertain world, I think retailers should double-down on experimentation as a strategy. Test multiple campaigns, messages, and promotions more than you... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Research Brief: Great Expectations

treat other people and the expectations we hold drive how they turn out.” His findings appear in the paper, “The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others,” published in the Journal... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
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