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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya

By: Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri
Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted participation but also decreased trust in electoral... View Details
Keywords: Political Participation; Electoral Institutions; Field Experiment; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; Trust; Kenya
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance

By: Paul Green, Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats
In this paper, we examine how connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work increases performance and argue that beneficiaries internal to an organization (i.e., one’s own colleagues) can serve as an important source of motivation, even in jobs that—on the surface—may seem... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Belongingness; Motivation; Job Design; Field Experiment; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Job Design and Levels
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MBA Experience - Leadership

leadership. Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) FIELD is a year-long, two-part course that gives first-year students meaningful and numerous... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Design of Panel Experiments with Spatial and Temporal Interference

By: Tu Ni, Iavor Bojinov and Jinglong Zhao
One of the main practical challenges companies face when running experiments (or A/B tests) over a panel is interference, the setting where one experimental unit's treatment assignment at one time period impacts another's outcomes, possibly at the following time... View Details
Keywords: Research
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    Design of Panel Experiments with Spatial and Temporal Interference

    One of the main practical challenges companies face when running experiments (or A/B tests) over a panel is interference, the setting where one experimental unit's treatment assignment at one time period impacts another's outcomes, possibly at the following time... View Details
    • June 2021
    • Article

    Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?

    By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
    We investigate how knowledge similarity between two individuals is systematically related to the likelihood that a serendipitous encounter results in knowledge production. We conduct a natural field experiment at a medical research symposium, where we exogenously... View Details
    Keywords: Cognitive Similarity; Innovation; Knowledge Production; Natural Field Experiment; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Relationships
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    MBA Experience - Global

    and cases equip students to apply what they learn to multiple contexts, in meaningful ways. Faculty bring important business issues and management problems from around the world into the classroom. Field Immersion View Details
    • 01 Jun 2006
    • News

    Field Studies a Win-Win

    Field studies give small teams of second-year HBS students, working under faculty supervision and guidance, an opportunity to get a handle on the kinds of real-world problems that individual companies are facing. Sponsoring companies and... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • May 2017
    • Article

    Behavioral Processes in Long-Lag Interventions

    By: Dale T. Miller, Jennifer E. Dannals and Julian Zlatev
    We argue that psychologists who conduct experiments with long lags between the manipulation and the outcome measure should pay more attention to behavioral processes that intervene between the manipulation and the outcome measure. Neglect of such processes, we contend,... View Details
    Keywords: Field Experiments; Interventions; Behavioral Mediation; Theories Of Change; Longitudinal Studies; Behavior; Research; Change; Theory
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    • 2018
    • Article

    Prior Ties and the Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance

    By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
    We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent startup team's performance. We find that teams whose members lack prior ties to others at the bootcamp experience peer effects that... View Details
    Keywords: Field Experiment; Peer Effects; Office Space; Knowledge Spillovers; Accelerators; Entrepreneurship; Knowledge Sharing; Performance; Technology Industry; India
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    The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Transparency

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein

    Workplace transparency provides a foundation for learning and control, and therefore for satisfaction and productivity. Yet my research shows that an obsession with transparency-enhancing tools and structures can backfire, producing the unintended consequences of... View Details

    Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Productivity; Field Experiments; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Human Resources; Leadership; United States; Europe; China; Japan
    • 30 Oct 2019
    • Video

    Where are Students Heading for Field Global Immersions?

    • 25 May 2016
    • News

    FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers

    FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course. “I was interested in entrepreneurship, but I didn’t think that I was cut out for it,” says the Princeton economics major. “FIELD 3 took... View Details
    • February 2013
    • Article

    Commitment and Behavior Change: Evidence from the Field

    By: Katie Baca-Motes, Amber Brown, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth A. Keenan and Leif D. Nelson
    Influencing behavior change is an ongoing challenge in psychology, economics, and consumer behavior research. Building on previous work on commitment, self-signaling, and the principle of consistency, a large, intensive field experiment (N = 2,416) examined the effect... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Marketing
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    • June 2023
    • Article

    The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information

    By: Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
    The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. Access to salary information is believed to be limited and unequal, but there is little direct evidence on the sources of... View Details
    Keywords: Search Costs; Privacy; Norms; Compensation; Financial Industry; Field Experiment; Knowledge Dissemination; Equality and Inequality; Gender; Compensation and Benefits; Societal Protocols
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    • September 2015 (Revised March 2017)
    • Technical Note

    FIELD Global Immersion: Developing Customer Empathy

    By: Jill Avery
    The Design Thinking process begins with empathizing with potential customers. Empathizing, being aware of, interpreting, and understanding the thoughts of others, as well as being able to vicariously experience them oneself, requires the careful and deliberate study of... View Details
    Keywords: Market Research; Design Thinking; Customer Behavior; Ethnography; Interviews; Surveys; A/B Testing; Experimentation; Marketing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers
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      The Magic That Makes Customer Experiences Stick

      The field of customer experience (CX) design — which aims to ensure that customers have positive touch points with companies while buying and consuming their products and services — has grown quickly in recent years. Research has shown that memorable experiences,... 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
        • 26 May 2015
        • Research & Ideas

        Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

        The term "academic research" can conjure images of scientists conducting experiments in a basement laboratory, or of tweed-clad professors poring through old theories to develop new ones. But let's not forget about View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
        • Web

        Field Course: Go to Market Sales Playbook Field Study - Course Catalog

        HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Go to Market Sales Playbook Field Study Course Number 6665 Senior Lecturer Lou Shipley Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Project/Paper Overview: This course is designed for students... View Details