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Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms Course Number 6453 Senior Lecturer Jason Pananos Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits12 2-hour SessionsPaper This field course teaches specific...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Faculty Think Tank
A faculty team charged with designing the new yearlong FIELD course — short for Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development — in the first year of the MBA Program...
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Field Course: Innovating in Health Care, Q2 - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Innovating in Health Care, Q2 Course Number 6345 Professor Regina Herzlinger Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Lee Kaplan Executive Fellow Ben Creo Executive Fellow Brian Walker Fall;...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
the student had interviewed industry leaders to better understand the barriers to growth that Indian private equity firms face — his analysis echoing findings from Sadun’s own research. “It built on intuitions that I already had, but seeing firsthand View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
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When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
and outside of the robotics field to assess 10 of 101 design proposals. That yielded some 3,869 pairs of evaluators and entries to analyze. "There are limits to domain expertise. When they see a novel design that they have never...
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- 14 May 2019
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Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review
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Team, Individual, and Organizational Learning From Experience in Two High-Hazard Industries
High-hazard industries such as nuclear power and chemical process plants must learn and improve without sole reliance on trial-and-error. Considerable attention and resources are placed on learning from operating experience, including exchange of best practices, peer...
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- 23 Oct 2019
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An Experiment in Online Education Reaches 50,000 Learners in Five Years
that has educated more than 50,000 people in 170 countries. “We have brought much of what is special about the HBS experience to life online, helping the School to achieve its educational mission of educating leaders, wherever they are...
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- 2023
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Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality
By: Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, Ethan Mollick, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Katherine C. Kellogg, Saran Rajendran, Lisa Krayer, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
The public release of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked tremendous interest in how humans will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accomplish a variety of tasks. In our study conducted with Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, we examine...
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Large Language Model;
AI and Machine Learning;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Improvement
Dell'Acqua, Fabrizio, Edward McFowland III, Ethan Mollick, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Katherine C. Kellogg, Saran Rajendran, Lisa Krayer, François Candelon, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-013, September 2023.
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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data
By: Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos and Michael I. Norton
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries,...
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De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, and Michael I. Norton. "The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data." Review of Economics and Statistics 100, no. 2 (May 2018): 362–375.
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By: Ayelet Israeli
Professor Israeli utilizes econometric methods and field experiments to study data driven decision making in marketing context. Her research focuses on data-driven marketing, with an emphasis on how businesses can leverage their own data, customer data, and market data...
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Reimagining the MBA
to a dozen cities in 10 countries during the January Term. It’s all part of an ambitious undertaking in the MBA curriculum centered around a new yearlong required course called FIELD (Field Immersion View Details
- March 2015 (Revised January 2020)
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Behavioural Insights Team (A)
By: Michael Luca and Patrick Rooney
The Behavioural Insights Team case introduces students to the concept of choice architecture and the value of experimental methods (sometimes called A/B testing) within organizational contexts. The exercise provides an opportunity for students to apply these principles...
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Behavioral Economics;
Experiments;
Choice Architecture;
Public Entrepreneurship;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Consumer Behavior;
Taxation;
Economics;
Public Administration Industry;
United Kingdom
Luca, Michael, and Patrick Rooney. "Behavioural Insights Team (A)." Harvard Business School Case 915-024, March 2015. (Revised January 2020.)
- June 2023
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How New Ideas Diffuse in Science
By: Mengjie Cheng, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith and Daniel A. McFarland
What conditions help new ideas spread? Can knowledge entrepreneurs’ position and develop new ideas in ways that help them take off? Most innovation research focuses on products and their reference. That focus ignores the ideas themselves and the broader ideational...
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Innovation Adoption;
Natural Language Processing;
Knowledge;
Science;
Innovation and Invention;
Knowledge Sharing;
Analytics and Data Science
Cheng, Mengjie, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith, and Daniel A. McFarland. "How New Ideas Diffuse in Science." American Sociological Review 88, no. 3 (June 2023): 522–561.
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Machine Learning Methods for Strategy Research
By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
Numerous applications of machine learning have gained acceptance in the field of strategy and management research only during the last few years. Established uses span such diverse problems as strategic foreign investments, strategic resource allocation, systemic risk...
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Machine Learning;
Natural Language Processing;
Classification;
Decision Trees;
Strategic Decisions;
Strategy;
Research;
Information Technology
Teodorescu, Mike Horia. "Machine Learning Methods for Strategy Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-011, August 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
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The Challenges Ahead in the field of impact investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The Challenges Ahead in the field of impact investing Multiple Alumni Topics Business for Social Impact Impact Investing More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling...
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- 04 Jul 2016
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Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
immediate goals that are specific to an individual organization than on predictive outcomes that are generalizable to all organizations. “That’s the reality of using field experiments for research—it’s never...
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by Carmen Nobel
- March 2016 (Revised January 2020)
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Behavioural Insights Team (A) and (B)
By: Michael Luca and Patrick Rooney
The Behavioural Insights Team case introduces students to the concept of choice architecture and the value of experimental methods (sometimes called A/B testing) within organizational contexts. The exercise provides an opportunity for students to apply these principles...
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- March 2015 (Revised January 2020)
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Behavioural Insights Team (B)
By: Michael Luca and Patrick Rooney
The Behavioural Insights Team case introduces students to the concept of choice architecture and the value of experimental methods (sometimes called A/B testing) within organizational contexts. The exercise provides an opportunity for students to apply these principles...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Economics;
Experiments;
Choice Architecture;
Public Entrepreneurship;
United Kingdom
Luca, Michael, and Patrick Rooney. "Behavioural Insights Team (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 915-025, March 2015. (Revised January 2020.)