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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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