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A Prescriptive Analytics Framework for Optimal Policy Deployment Using Heterogeneous Treatment Effects

We define a prescriptive analytics framework that addresses the needs of a constrained decision-maker facing, ex ante, unknown costs and benefits of multiple policy levers. The framework is general in nature and can be deployed in any utility maximizing... View Details

01 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

companies would see positive performance results by emphasizing employee individuality from day one, testing their hypothesis through a series of field and lab experiments. For starters, they conducted a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

01 Dec 2023
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Research Brief: Staying in the Game

Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

04 May 2023
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Class of 2024 Embarks on Global Immersion

This year marks the return of international travel for the MBA Program’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course, an experiential learning opportunity that gives first-year students in the Required Curriculum hands-on exposure to how business is conducted in markets around... View Details

16 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

investment of a founder’s time" Koning’s working paper, released in May, is titled Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem. The coauthors were Aaron Chatterji and Sharique Hasan, both of Duke... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Apr 2013
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Monitoring and the Portability of Soft Information

Keywords: by Dennis Campbell & Maria Loumioti; Banking

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Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Building Research Through Tensions and Paradox

By: P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew J. Hoffman

The focus of institutional theory is directed towards an understanding of situations where context is strong and binding, yet subtly experienced; where agency is often diffuse, embodied in an arrangement or system of actors rather than in an individual; and where... View Details

Keywords: Institutional Theory; Natural Environment; Research

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Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh

By: Akshay Mangla

Community-based initiatives that work to empower the poor and promote their participation have gained strong support among scholars and practitioners of development. Yet the questionable assumptions about culture and development that inform these initiatives render it... View Details

Keywords: India; Culture; Child Rights; Caste Relations; Child Education; Child Health; India

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05 Feb 2013
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computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a dynamic structural model using field data through a combination of (1) an exclusions restriction separating current and future... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2022
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Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

known in the field as “costly signaling.” And in some cases, they are doing so even when talking about negative feelings goes against workplace norms. “You're showing that you're willing to risk social sanctions in order to try to help... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

must devise a strategy that commits to the goal of superior performance, develops a unique area of focus and approach, aligns operations to the strategy, and defines concrete goals in its chosen fields to serve as the basis of evaluation.... View Details

09 Feb 2015
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Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

more intent than the other—and that intent might contribute to feelings of being selfish." Putting The Hypotheses To The Test The researchers conducted a series of experimental and field studies to test the extent to which networking... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Jul 2022
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Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

onto the exec team.” "When there's more scarcity and higher demand, that puts a premium on the type of person and on your willingness to pay." That push for gender diversity in senior management could spell an opportunity for women to make a case for higher salaries,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Dec 2016
HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

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Participation - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

tone of voice and body language can have a powerful effect on how safe students find the environment for participation. Experienced instructors may calibrate their interactions with individual students depending on the participant's background in the View Details

09 Jun 2022
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From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

each night. “We can’t afford to have our veteran employees leaving,” explains Rob Koppenhaver, senior vice president of US Food’s field operations, in the case study. From dead-end jobs to management roles With those two basic changes in... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Baker Library Special Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral Executive Education... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

came in the field of health care, the firm’s investments now include software, communications technology, semiconductors and electronics, and financial services. With nearly $15 billion under management and over 140 employees, Summit has... View Details

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Corporate Restructuring and Business Insolvency: Economic Impact and Best Practices

By: Stuart C. Gilson

Stuart C. Gilson is studying how severe financial distress impacts corporate policies and economic resource allocation. He is also studying how managers can best respond to financial distress in order to preserve and grow value. He is undertaking this research... View Details

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Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

Consumer-Driven Health Care.” Her work was key to introducing consumer-driven health plans and “focused health factories,” such as centers for orthopedics, cardiology, or cancer care. MBA Courses Lab to Market: Field Course This course is... View Details

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