Publications

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April 2015
Article

Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments

By: Melissa Valentine, Ingrid M. Nembhard and Amy C. Edmondson

Background: Teamwork in health care settings is widely recognized as an important factor in providing high quality patient care. However, the behaviors that comprise effective teamwork, the organizational factors that support teamwork, and the relationship... View Details

Keywords: Teamwork; Psychometric Properties; Survey Instruments:; Measurement and Metrics; Surveys; Groups and Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

April 2023
Article

The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

By: Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

Incentivized choice experiments are a key approach to measuring preferences in economics but are also costly. Survey measures are a low-cost alternative but can suffer from additional forms of measurement error due to their hypothetical nature. This paper seeks to... View Details

Keywords: Survey Validation; Experiment; Preference Measurement; Surveys; Economics; Behavior; Measurement and Metrics

July 2017
Article

Inflation Expectations, Learning, and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Survey Experiments

By: Alberto Cavallo, Guillermo Cruces and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Information frictions play a central role in the formation of household inflation expectations, but there is no consensus about their origins. We address this question with novel evidence from survey experiments. We document two main findings. First, individuals in... View Details

Keywords: Inflation Expectations; Survey Experiment; Rational Inattention; Supermarkets; Macroeconomics; Household; Inflation and Deflation; Policy

Awards

Second Most Frequently Cited Research Paper

"Business Unit Strategy, Managerial Characteristics, and Business Unit Effectiveness at Strategy Implementation" with Anil K. Gupta was the second most frequently cited research papers in the survey of "The Fifty Most-Noted Strategy Works of 1980-1985" by Donald C.... View Details

Sep 2015
Survey

2015 Survey Methodology

A detailed methodology of HBS' 2015 alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. View Details

Research Summary

Directors Survey

By: Jay W. Lorsch

This project, which is just beginning, will be a questionnaire survey of directors of public companies in the U.S. The goal of the survey will be to understand the views of directors about their jobs and the changing legal, regulatory, and institutional climate in... View Details

Dec 2019
Survey

2019 Survey Methodology

A detailed methodology of HBS' 2019 alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. View Details

Nov 2016
Survey

2016 Survey Methodology

A detailed methodology of HBS' 2016 alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. View Details

Sep 2014
Survey

2013-14 Survey Methodology

A detailed methodology of HBS' 2013–14 alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. View Details

Feb 2013
Survey

2012 Survey Methodology

A detailed methodology of HBS' 2013–14 alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. View Details

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Survey Questionnaire

January 2005 (Revised June 2005)
Case

The Harvard Graduate Student Housing Survey

Harvard Real Estate Services executives need to design the 2005 Graduate Student Housing Survey for maximum impact in anticipation of Harvard's long-term expansion project in Allston. Students are challenged to help executives in charge to (1) draw the lessons from... View Details

Keywords: Design; Surveys; Housing; Higher Education; Boston

Educators

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2013
Case

Surveying Professional Forecasters

By: K. C. Lichtendahl and Y. Grushka-Cockayne

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Jan 2012
Survey

2011 Survey Methodology

A detailed methodology of HBS' 2011 alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness, the first of its kind. View Details

1991
Book

Survey Research Methods

By: J. I. Cash Jr. and J. F. Nunamaker Jr.

Keywords: Information; Surveys; Research

December 1981 (Revised September 1986)
Background Note

Research Methods in Marketing: Survey Research

By: Robert J. Dolan

Presents basic issues in survey research, covering both measurement and sampling error. The intention is to consider each element of the survey process: problem statement, questionnaire design, sampling, and data analysis. View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Surveys; Marketing

Educators

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2008
Working Paper

Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Public Sector; Immigration; Labor; Europe; Scandinavia

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Article

Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into... View Details

Keywords: Surveys; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Immigration; Economic Systems; Human Capital; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Fluctuation; Situation or Environment; Labor and Management Relations; United States; Europe