Experiment Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

frequently that psychologists have a name for them: "fundamental attribution errors." Unable to know every aspect of a stranger's backstory, yet still needing to make a primal designation between friend and foe, we watch for... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

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Outdoor Spaces | About

designed to encourage continued learning outside of the classroom, promote collaboration, and build a sense of community. The firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park and Boston’s... View Details

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

key transitions that shape leaders' careers, specifying processes and moderating conditions for identity transformation. Implications for designing experiences and training that take identity processes into... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

new ideas and gauge their effects is a game changer, revealing surprising insights that can lead to incremental changes that can have a cumulatively huge effect on business. After research that the checkout experience could be improved,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2001
News

Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

Vicente Fox, who was then governor of the state of Guanajuato. “I didn’t want to abandon the business or my research, because both were important to me,” recalls Ramirez. After Fox’s historic victory last summer, Ramirez joined a team of six development and poverty... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

underinvestment in behaviors like handwashing with soap that we see. If they are rational, it can affect the design of interventions and incentives that policymakers can offer to encourage positive habit formation.” The team’s View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

opportunities and challenging issues facing business and society around the world. Segneri explains that being part of this environment gives students and alumni from HBS and Harvard University’s 12 other schools access to a wide range of support systems and resources,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

course for you. Here’s an overview of each to help you decide. [...] Read more 23 Apr 2025 How to Improve Product & Service Design with the AEIOU Framework Brad Einstein Author Staff tag Entrepreneurship & Innovation Leadership Management... View Details

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

and funny material posted on social media, to promote health, beauty, and snack food products. Our job was to develop a new snack food designed for the Korean millennial consumer. The FIELD course began in second semester. First, we... View Details

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Connell House | About

Connell House William F. Connell (MBA 1963) Connell House (formerly Fowler House) is named for distinguished business leader and generous HBS benefactor William F. Connell (MBA 1963). The three-story, 5,600-square-foot Georgian Revival-style, stucco and brick building... View Details

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

prudent temperaments while others flourish in the hands of risk takers. Brands thrive when there's a close fit between process and corporate temperament. This explanation, I believe, will provide the framework for understanding Triarc's and Quaker's contrasting View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage

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Schwartz Common & Pavilion | About

ceremonial events that bring together faculty, staff, students, and alumni. The Pavilion supports seasonal and programmatic flexibility with a contemporary design that resonates with the legacy campus. About the Donors Heather Reisman,... View Details

07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

Commercializing Climate Tech; The Future of Food. When asked about the experience the co-chairs hoped to cultivate during the Symposium, Angela Son explained: “I hope that our attendees not only learned something new about their field of... View Details

January 2018
Case

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden

In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed... View Details

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27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

field force to facilitate the introduction of complex new products. Subtle decisions such as the location of such boundary-spanning units, and the level and experience of the people appointed have big impact. A unit located at... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

experience? If they are skills, should the curriculum be designed to foster them, perhaps through greater emphasis on courses in negotiating skills and increased field experience, among others, on the assumption that street smarts can be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 12

link: http://francescagino.com/#/judgment_research Working Papers When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract—Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and hence higher effort? In a field View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

deontology consists of many principles, which might, at times, conflict. In three studies, we design a conflict around moral principles and find that the relationship between moral judgment and religiosity is more nuanced than currently... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne