Field Experiment - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

specializing in the burgeoning field of behavioral economics. "Standard economic theory suggests that as long as people understand the full consequences of their actions, they tend to act in their self interest," says John. "If they want... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

education; provide case studies showing how leading MBA programs have begun reinventing themselves for the better; and offer concrete ideas for how business schools can surmount the challenges that come with reinvention, including securing faculty with new skills and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

sentiment, the researchers conducted six lab experiments in which participants answered questions about a simulated website of a fashion retailer selling T-shirts. The research also included a field study of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

13 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

consider new products, even though innovative, because they were content with their current suppliers? The researchers also tested the specific difficulties faced by African Americans in breaking up existing buyer-supplier relationships. The researchers conducted a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

such practices. Ethnographers spend extended periods of time in the field and therefore see or are told by informants what others might miss. At the same time, a limitation is that we cannot quantify what we observe. “To date, I have not... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

For too long companies and governments in the U.S. have under-funded and under-resourced the anti-racist organizations leveling the playing field for the black communities we stand in solidarity with today. 100+ Historically Black... View Details

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

factory, and it was here that he became fascinated with mechanics and factory operations. With experience in the automobile industry, Georges was chosen to serve as an engineering officer in the French heavy artillery regiment during... View Details

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Authentic Leader Development - Course Catalog

behaviors. We expect you to be absolutely honest with yourself and others. While few of our students are completely comfortable or sure about this type of work coming in, you must be at least open to experimenting with a different kind of... View Details

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

exploring the feasibility of canopy tours of the rainforest. “I was interested in startups and had experience in Latin America, so it seemed like a good fit after HBS,” recalls Skelly. “We wound up building what was essentially a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

service relationships is neither well understood, nor consistently factored into service design. In this paper, two laboratory experiments and one field experiment, conducted in financial service contexts,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2025
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

Guidance Systems to Create Dynamic Capabilities By: Kanter, Rosabeth M., Matthew Bird, Ethan Bernstein, and Ryan Raffaelli Abstract—How do strategic leaders create change-adept organizations? Based on qualitative field research, this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

That experience led him to assign several Bain teams to analyze the viability of setting up a nonprofit consultancy. The need quickly became evident. Bain research turned up “some 3,000 solo practitioners who offered consulting services... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

that as the same customers gain more experience with online DVD rentals, the extent to which they hold should films longer than want films decreases. Our results suggest that present bias has a meaningful impact on choice in the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

of M&A activity must take place; mandatory public reporting must be required documenting experience and outcome information based on defined standards (just as the SEC requires reporting of certain information); and Medicare pricing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

photograph he had just taken of her. “Within an hour, the camera, the film, and the physical chemistry became so clear to me,” Land recounted. 9 Polaroid would commercially launch Land’s invention five years later. The company’s View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Lavoie (MBA 1993) (Crown Business) In How Remarkable Women Lead, Barsh described Centered Leadership's five capabilities and the research that underpins it. In this book, Barsh and Lavoie provide a practical field guide for implementing... View Details

18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both the private and public sectors. Lawrence’s professional work was rooted in an aspiration to do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

knowledge of a market tends to make it more efficient and to intensify competition," Sprinkle noted. "This means that each of us had better start experimenting in this realm right now." At lunch the next day, Vincent H. Tobkin (MBA '75)... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

cumulative innovation. To make progress towards understanding implications of such policy changes we devised a large-scale field experiment in which 733 subjects were divided into matched independent... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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