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  • June 2018
  • Article

Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France

By: Vincent Pons
This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in François Hollande's campaign in the 2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Interpersonal Communication; France
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Behavioral Transmission: Evidence from a Public Health Campaign in Bangladesh

By: Reshmaan Hussam and Dayea Oh
We examine how behavior change transmits across contexts in the setting of hand hygiene in rural Bangladesh. We randomize an edutainment intervention across classrooms to trace schoolto-home transmission in handwashing behavior and randomize the proportion of students... View Details
Keywords: Handwashing; Interventions; Public Health; Health; Behavior; Change; Bangladesh
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  • 09 Apr 2012
  • News

Has Mason lost it?

  • 29 Jun 2010
  • News

In Faulty-Computer Suit, Window to Dell Decline

  • 16 Dec 2020
  • News

Google’s three-day workweek plan raises questions

    Right Kind of Wrong

    A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.

    We used to think of... View Details
    • 15 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

    Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for General Motors? Or are those just headlights from an oncoming train? Among Harvard Business School faculty, it depends on whom you ask. The carmaker—home to such storied brands as Cadillac,... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Auto
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Biometric Monitoring, Service Delivery and Misreporting: Evidence from Healthcare in India

    By: Thomas Bossuroy, Clara Delavallade and Vincent Pons
    Developing countries increasingly use biometric identification technology in hopes of improving the reliability of administrative information and delivering social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric tracking devices in... View Details
    Keywords: Biometric Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Analytics and Data Science; Quality; Performance Improvement; India
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    • 10 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

    remotely from their homes or at a reading center. As new scans come in, they are randomly assigned to the radiologists, who must be licensed in the state and credentialed at the hospital where the scan was... View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
    • 15 Jul 2013
    • News

    What Reddit likes: Things that make a meme explode

    • 6 Oct 2021
    • Talk

    How to Transition In and Out of Work

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz
    How to keep home and work separate while working remotely. Some remote employees miss their commute, with several even creating a fake commute to turn off work at the end of a long workday. Expert Jon Jachimowicz explains how to maximize the positive lifestyle benefits... View Details
    Keywords: Work From Home (WFH); Positivity; Lifestyle; Passion; Work-Life Balance
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    • 24 Aug 2013
    • News

    Ballmer Exit Leaves Microsoft Searching for Hero in PC Slump

    • 30 Jun 2020
    • News

    What Coronavirus Researchers Can Learn From Economists

    • 02 Jan 2014
    • Blog Post

    Preparing for a career in investment banking

    Time has flown! I am already feeling nostalgic about my first term at HBS and how I will miss having section (f)un until almost February. The past two months have been hectic. Recruiting kicked off in... View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Anytime-Valid Inference in Linear Models and Regression-Adjusted Causal Inference

    By: Michael Lindon, Dae Woong Ham, Martin Tingley and Iavor I. Bojinov
    Linear regression adjustment is commonly used to analyze randomized controlled experiments due to its efficiency and robustness against model misspecification. Current testing and interval estimation procedures leverage the asymptotic distribution of such estimators to... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 31 Jan 2012
    • News

    Are 'The Best Places to Work' really the best?

    • 19 Jan 2022
    • News

    When the Last Thing You Want to Do Is Exercise

    • 12 Apr 2012
    • News

    Sponsors lay down Olympic challenge to rivals

    • 23 Aug 2006
    • Op-Ed

    The Real Wal-Mart Effect

    retailer destroyed more jobs in 2005 than it created. Indeed, from low wages to limited healthcare coverage, the company has a number of employee-related issues to tackle, as well as many nonmarket ones. (Wal-Mart announced August 8 an increase in starting wages View Details
    Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
    • June 30, 2021
    • Article

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Let Employees Take the Lead on ESG

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    Companies that don’t give rank-and-file workers a central role in their environmental, social and governance (ESG) work are making a mistake. They risk alienating values-oriented employees who question company practices, and they miss a big opportunity for employee... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Leaders; Talent Acquisition; Talent Retention; Engagement; Organizations; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Employees; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management
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