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  • August 2021
  • Case

Orchadio's First Two Split Experiments

By: Iavor I. Bojinov, Marco Iansiti and David Lane
Orchadio, a direct-to-consumer grocery business, needs to conduct its first two A/B tests—one to evaluate the effectiveness and functioning of its newly redesigned website, and one to market-test four versions of a new banner for the website. To do so, it will rely on... View Details
Keywords: Information Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Measurement and Metrics; Customization and Personalization; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Information Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Brazil Banks on Experience

Ranked among the world’s largest economies, Brazil and the left-leaning government of newly elected President Lu íz In ácio Lula da Silva soothed wary financial markets by selecting Henrique Meirelles (93rd AMP), former head of global banking at FleetBoston, to lead... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • Article

The Multidimensional Effects of a Small Gift:: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

By: Ellen Garbarino, Robert Slonim and Carmen Wang
Using a large natural field experiment, we demonstrate that a small unconditional gift (pen) more than doubled both small (survey) and large (blood donation) responses. We find no evidence that the opportunity for a small response crowded out the larger response;... View Details
Keywords: Reciprocity; Gift Exchange; Blood Donation; Charitable Behavior; Field Experiment; Behavior; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Virtual Water Coolers: A Field Experiment on the Role of Virtual Interactions on Organizational Newcomer Performance

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Jacqueline N. Lane and Iavor Bojinov
Designing management practices to better onboard organizational newcomers working remotely is a key priority for firms. We report results from a randomized field experiment conducted at a large global firm that estimates the performance effects of different types of... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Virtual Water Coolers; Social Interactions; Careers; Field Experiment; Employees; Interpersonal Communication; Internet and the Web; Performance; Personal Development and Career
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  • 09 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

A worker seeks fulfillment in a new job involving expanded skills and responsibilities. The dilemma: Without prior experience in the field, how can she prove her capability to a potential employer? The challenge is even more daunting for... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology
  • Web

Campus Experience | MBA

Campus Experience At Harvard Business School, breakthrough moments can happen any time. While formal education is concentrated within academics, the transformation of potential into leadership is realized through every aspect of the... View Details

    Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments

    Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that ‘sampling bias’—defined as the difference between a startup’s target customer base and the actual sample on which early ‘beta tests’ are conducted—has a systematic and... View Details
    • Blog

    Reinventing the GMP Experience

    present with her family. "I thought quite long and hard about how I wanted the experience to feel for me and what the integration with my life at home would be like," she says. "I chose Section A so I could spend time with my family in... View Details
    • 01 May 2013
    • News

    Experience of a Lifetime

    banker in Miami, Florida. Today, he's the CEO of Hunter Global Investors, a money management firm he founded just two weeks after 9/11. "The HBS experience was transformational for me," Buchan says. "Case studies provided a framework to... View Details
    • March 6, 2012
    • Blog Post

    Enhance Your Overseas Experience

    By: John Coleman and William W. George
    Keywords: Leadership
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    • 7 May 1993
    • Lecture

    The United States Experience

    By: W. Carl Kester
    Keywords: United States
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    • 29 Jul 2021
    • Video

    International Perspectives: Student Experience

      Co-Creating the Employee Experience

      A conversation with Diane GhersonView Details
      • December 2020
      • Supplement

      Experiment A Box Search

      By: Iavor I Bojinov and Karim R. Lakhani
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      • Jul 29 2015
      • Testimonial

      A Rich Learning Experience

      • Feb 05 2013
      • Testimonial

      GMP: A Transformative Experience

      • 23 Sep 2013

      Campus Tour

      Take a student-led campus tour and learn about the student experience at HBS. Tours leave at 3:15 PM EST from the Admissions Office in the Dillon House. No registration required. View Details
      • 27 Sep 2012
      • News

      Study Shows Leaders Experience Lower Stress

      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

      By: Eric D. Werker
      This extended memorandum identifies episodes of sustained double-digit growth in real GDP, defined as a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent or more over a period of 8 years or longer. Using a measure of real GDP reported in the World Development Indicators, we... View Details
      Keywords: Growth; Liberia
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      • 30 Jul 2014
      • News

      Were OkCupid’s and Facebook’s Experiments Unethical?