Experiments - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

plans they have presented with a 5 percent cutback still doesn't get us to cash-flow positive. This is one of the points, too, that came out of both projects which is, you have to be aware of the receptors in people's minds, their View Details

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Predoctoral Experience | Research Associates

Predoctoral Experience Apply Now The Predoctoral Research Associate role is designed to provide research associates (RAs) with exposure to a variety of research areas, while gaining experience with different... View Details

Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

Switchback experiments, where a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to random treatments, are among the most prevalent designs used in the technology sector, with applications ranging from ride-hailing platforms to online marketplaces. Although... View Details

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Work Design Drivers of Organizational Learning about Operational Failures: A Laboratory Experiment on Medication Administration

By: Anita L. Tucker

Operational failures persist in hospitals, in part because employees work around them rather than attempt to prevent recurrence. Drawing on a process improvement tool—the Andon cord—we examine three work design components that may foster improvement-oriented behaviors:... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Process Improvement; Organizational Learning; Behavioral Operations; Prosocial Behavior; Experiments; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry

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25 Jul 2022

International Perspectives Series: Student Experience

Meet current HBS students from around the world and hear about their MBA experience as international students. They will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated their personal and professional interests while at HBS. View Details

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Your Personalized Experience | MBA

Your Personalized Experience From establishing long-term career goals to updating your resume, we’re here to help students through each step of the career search journey. The Career & Professional Development (CPD) office is dedicated to... View Details

27 Apr 2017
News

Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience

Tanvi Jain Patyal, joins the MBA Class of 2019 next fall. “This fellowship gives my wife and me the incredible opportunity to gain one of the most enriching and transformational educational experiences of our lives.” View Details

June 1980
Article

The Experience Curve and Antitrust

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Law

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December 2007 (Revised June 2009)
Case

KPMG (A): A Near-Death Experience

By: Robert G. Eccles and Eliot Sherman

Describes the way in which "Big Four" auditor KPMG dealt with an indictment stemming from the firm's sale of tax shelters. In 2005 Tim Flynn has been KPMG Chairman for a matter of days when he learns that the government is preparing to indict the firm on charges of... View Details

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Crime and Corruption; Taxation; Lawsuits and Litigation; Crisis Management; Partners and Partnerships; Accounting Industry; Service Industry

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July 2008
Article

Fairness in Extended Dictator-Game Experiments

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Reiner Eichenberger

We test the robustness of behavior in dictator games by offering allocators the choice to play an unattractive lottery. With this lottery option, mean transfers from allocators to recipients substantially decline, partly because many allocators now keep the entire... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Fairness; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior

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