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Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France
This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in Francois Hollande’s campaign in the 2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized... View Details
- 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.
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- 09 Apr 2012
- News
Has Mason lost it?
- 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
Hussam, Reshmaan, and Dayea Oh. "Behavioral Transmission: Evidence from a Public Health Campaign in Bangladesh." Working Paper, April 2023.
- 29 Jun 2010
- News
In Faulty-Computer Suit, Window to Dell Decline
- 15 Jul 2013
- News
What Reddit likes: Things that make a meme explode
- 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
Bossuroy, Thomas, Clara Delavallade, and Vincent Pons. "Biometric Monitoring, Service Delivery and Misreporting: Evidence from Healthcare in India." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26388, October 2019. (Revise and resubmit requested, Review of Economics and Statistics.)
- 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
- 24 Aug 2013
- News
Ballmer Exit Leaves Microsoft Searching for Hero in PC Slump
- 6 Oct 2021
- Talk
How to Transition In and Out of Work
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
Jachimowicz, Jon M. "How to Transition In and Out of Work." Headspace, Boston, MA, October 6, 2021.
- 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
- June 30, 2021
- Article
Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Let Employees Take the Lead on ESG
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
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Let Employees Take the Lead on ESG." Wall Street Journal (online) (June 30, 2021).
- 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
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
Sponsors lay down Olympic challenge to rivals
- 30 Jun 2020
- News
What Coronavirus Researchers Can Learn From Economists
- 2008
- Book
Predictable Surprises
By: Max Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins
Most events that catch us by surprise are both predictable and preventable, but we consistently miss (or ignore) the warning signs. This book shows why such "predictable surprises" put us all at risk, and shows how we can understand, anticipate, and prevent them before... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Leadership; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior
Bazerman, Max, and Michael D. Watkins. Predictable Surprises. Paperback ed. Harvard Business School Press, 2008.
- 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
Lindon, Michael, Dae Woong Ham, Martin Tingley, and Iavor I. Bojinov. "Anytime-Valid Inference in Linear Models and Regression-Adjusted Causal Inference." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-060, March 2024.