Darman Room, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Join Sonos’ Senior Director of People Insights & Programs, Bailey O’Donnell, for a discussion around Sonos’ journey into the People Analytics space and how they’re working to address team effectiveness in a rapidly changing cultural and business environment.
Bailey joined Sonos in July 2017, where she’s helping to establish data-driven practices and build a culture around team effectiveness. Prior to Sonos, Bailey was at Google for ten years working in the People Analytics space, contributing to manager, team effectiveness,...
Bell Hall (Belfer Building, 5th flr), Harvard Kennedy School
CORRAL: Colloquium on Research Results Advancing Leadership
The CORRAL speaker series provides an opportunity for scholars to share and learn about cutting edge research related to the topic of leadership, broadly defined. You are invited to the fifth installment of CORRAL, with Dr. Jared Curhan, Associate Professor of Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management, on Thursday, May 3 at 4:00 p.m. An RSVP is necessary to attend and refreshments will be served.
Wexner-102 (Marc Heng and Family Conference Room), Harvard Kennedy School
Join us for a Behavioral Insights Group Talk with David Yeager (University of Texas at Austin).
Dr. Yeager is interested in understanding the processes shaping adolescent development, especially how social cognitive factors interact with structural and physiological factors to create positive or negative trajectories for youth. He is also interested in learning how to influence these psychological processes, so as to improve developmental and educational outcomes for youth. He primarily conducts randomized experiments in school settings because he...
Rubenstein-414 (David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab), Harvard Kennedy School
Join us for a lunch talk with Professor Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School), co-sponsored by the Behavioral Insights Student Group and Harvard Society for Mind, Brain and Behavior.
Professor Sunstein will discuss a new project exploring noise and bias in behavioral science.
HSPH Kresge G2, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Join us for a Behavioral Insights Student Group workshop with Keri Szejda from the Good Food Institute (GFI). Keri will discuss how the GFI has applied behavioral research in their work and then lead attendees in a skills-building workshop that explores how to apply behavioral science to promote a healthy, humane, and sustainable food supply.
The Good Food Institute is a nonprofit that aims to create a healthy, humane, and sustainable food supply by providing strategic support to companies, fostering the next generation of innovators, educating institutions, and promoting...
Darman Room, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Join us for a Behavioral Insights Student Group Research Workshop with Julia Fetherson (Boston Consulting Group, HKS MPP Alum '14).
Julia Fetherston co-founded and leads BeSmart, the behavioral economics, behavioral insights and decision science unit of the Boston Consulting Group.
Fetherston is the founder and leader of BCG’s behavioral economics, behavioral insights and complex decision science initiative, BeSmart. Julia’s work translates the core...
Join us on Friday, April 20, for Veterans Impact Day at Harvard Kennedy School — an annual day of service to bring together veterans and civilians from the Harvard community!
Veterans Impact Day is an opportunity for members of the Harvard community to serve and connect with veterans and active duty service members from around the city of Boston. Please join us in creating conversations and relationships that will help bridge the civilian-military divide and assist veterans in need.
We need BOTH non-veterans and veterans to close...
Darman Room, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Join us for a skills-based research workshop with Rekha Balu from MDRC's Center for Applied Behavioral Science.
Rekha coordinates research-practice partnerships, designs interventions for testing in randomized trials, and conducts impact, implementation, and cost analyses for large-scale federal evaluations. In addition, she helps lead efforts for MDRC’s Center for Applied Behavioral Science and the Implementation Research Group. At present, Balu is leading a series of...
