Field Experiments - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

members, and other experts around a variety of issues related to the pandemic. Sadun’s findings are summarized in the report “Re-starting under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from around the World.” Additional research related to the... View Details

11 Dec 2014
News

Fashion's Retail Revolution

field trips. “Department stores were the arbiters of fashion,” says Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at HBS, whose current research looks at the uncertain future of today’s department stores. Then, you were likely... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Finance

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

who was fascinated by her early experience with languages. “I would love to study you, because the way that your neural networks have been formed must be so different—because you were really substantively multilingual before you were... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

Web

Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library

worked over by the class and the instructor.” (2) In response to the needs of the curriculum, ideas for cases emerged from business contacts and personal experiences of HBS faculty and staff. Early manuals for writing cases included... View Details

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

apps for frontline employees to contain the pandemic. The experience will like reshape the entire health care industry for years to come. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Health Care Initiative at Harvard Business School how... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

22 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)

leap wasn’t without its struggles. I had to prove myself in a new field and convince recruiters that my analytical background gave me a unique advantage as a marketer. Persistence and self-belief became my greatest allies. After HBS, I... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2008
News

The Making of a School

today was planned and constructed. Students who like to lounge in an armchair at Spangler or work out at Shad might be interested to hear what life was like before a Soldiers Field campus existed. “You had to hurry, and you didn’t often... View Details

Keywords: George Bates MBA '25; Dean Wallace Donham; George F. Baker; Bishop William Lawrence; Lawrence Lowell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

mornings-only class schedule, she spent the afternoons working retail at an athletic clothing shop. “I think it planted an entrepreneurial seed in me. I loved the hands-on aspect to it, I loved how you could see the results of what you do,” she says. After an... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

judge the long-term rather than short-term regrets of others, anticipate their own regret at the distant rather than near future, and reflect on their regret regarding an actual past decision that they made in the distant rather than recent past. The paper concludes... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

Tobin Project brought together a dream team of researchers, from various fields and universities, to develop a novel set of experiments on inequality and decision-making. Joining Moss and Tobin program... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

theory building. ML strengths include replicable identification of novel patterns in the data. Additionally, ML methods address several concerns (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects for global effects) raised by scholars relative to the norms of empirical... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

granted. But 100 years ago, they were fresh recruits in the inexorable march of industrial capitalism. In a grand experiment to turn management into a legitimate profession, universities invented the modern business school. Questions... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

problems like advertising auctions and market design. The accelerating phenomenon has given rise to a new field within economics called the economics of digitization. Research from the field is quickly... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

Profile

Jackie Burgos

brings together my previous quantitative experiences with my passion for media,” according to Jackie. Taking flight to break new ground But for Jackie, the HBS experience is not just about practical career... View Details

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

of consumers towards high fee inferior products. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54865 forthcoming Manufacturing & Service Operations Management The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence from a Randomized View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

David's first challenges, outlined in detail in the Bulletin, was the overcrowded campus. With four Army and Navy training programs at Soldiers Field in addition to the MBA Program, more than thirteen hundred students were living in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

wanted to work in an organization under a hundred people; I wanted to experience the energy, the sense of urgency of a startup, a place where people actively choose to drive forward the mission.” The posting that popped out for Yoonjin... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Using both field and laboratory data, we find that grocery spending decreases with religiosity. Specifically, we document that people who live in more religious U.S. counties spend less money on groceries and make fewer unplanned... View Details