| Day 1: Thursday, October 9 |
| 8.30am to 9:10am | Registration and Breakfast |
| 9.10am to 9:30am | Welcome and Introductions |
| Session 1: Who works where? | |
| 9:30am to 9:45am | Bo Cowgill, Brandon Freiberg, Evan P. Starr. “Clause and Effect: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence on Noncompete Clauses.” |
| 9:45am to 10:00am | Sofia Bapna, Alan Benson, Russell Funk, Joao Sedoc. “Rejection Communication and Women’s Job-Search Persistence.” |
| 10:00am to 10:15am | Brian Jabarian, Luca Henkel. “Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews” |
| 10:15am to 10:35am | Discussion: John Horton |
| 10:35am to 11:00am | Q&A |
| Coffee Break | |
| 11:00am to 11:30am | Coffee and Pastries |
| Test Your Experiment I | |
| 11:30am – 12:45am | Master of Ceremonies: Solene Delecourt Markus Taussig, Incentivizing Customer Referrals for Bank Loans to Female Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Vietnam Aruna Ranganathan, Virtual Faculty Writing Retreats as Commitment Devices Increase Grant Submissions Katie McIntosh, Empowered to Deliver: Testing a Participatory Approach to Worker Accountability Naja Pape, One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The Effect of Inclusion-Signaling on Gender Disparities in Interest in and Signup for Entrepreneurial Training Michael Leatherbee, Social Ventures and Ethics of Care: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Miaomiao Zhang, Who Should I Talk to? A Field Experiment on Entrepreneurial Customer Signal Sourcing. Riitta Katila, Integrative review of experimentation Kris Gulati, Do women ask for less? Gender gaps in scientific funding Melody Chang, Selling Science: Idea Framing and Evaluation Rylan Miller, Leveraging Intangibles: The Role of Organizational Capital in Startup Resource Mobilization |
| 12:45pm – 2:00pm | Buffet Lunch at INSEAD |
| Session 2: Firms, Talent, & Development | |
| 2:00pm – 2:15pm | Silvia Castro, Hoa Ho, Maren Mickeler. “Cooperation in the Workplace: Experimental Eviden |
| 2:15pm – 2:30pm | Igor Asanov, Anastasiya-Mariya Asanov (Noha), Thomas Åstebro, Guido Buenstorf, Bruno Crépon, Francisco Pablo Flores T. , David McKenzie,Mona Mensmann, Mathis Schulte. “Online Soft- and Hard-Skills Training at Scale in High-schools” |
| 2:30pm – 2:45pm | Tess Lallemant. “Do Firms Know What They Are Looking For? A Demand-Side Experiment to Reduce Matching Frictions in Ugandan Labor Markets.” |
| 2:45pm – 3:05pm | Discussion: Anita McGahan |
| 3.05pm – 3:30pm | Q&A |
| Coffee Break | |
| 3:30pm to 4:00pm | Coffee and Pastries |
| Session 3: AI and Information |
| 4:00pm – 4:15pm | Ananya Sen. “GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment” |
| 4:15pm – 4:30pm | Stefanos Poulidis. “Action vs. Attention Signals for Human-AI Collaboration: Evidence from Chess” |
| 4:30pm – 4:45pm | Moran Lazar. “Ideas Are Dimes a Dozen with AI, But Who Will Champion These Ideas? A Field Experiment with H&M’s Strategic Sustainability Challenge” |
| 4.45pm – 5:05pm | Discussion: Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe |
| 5:05pm – 5:25pm | Q&A |
| Coffee Refill | |
| 5:25pm to 5:40pm | |
| Test Your Experiment II | |
| 5:40pm – 6:30pm | Master of Ceremonies: Silvia Castro Razan Amine, More than Money: The Role of Capital Grants in Firm Organization Devanshee Shukla, Overcoming labor market shortages for the energy transition: Experimental Evidence from India Anna Lukkarinen, Incentivizing Women’s Entry into Entrepreneurial Finance: Two Randomized Experiments Jessica Santana, The Effects of Empathy on Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure Pulkit Yadav, Strategic Vagueness or Detailed Disclosure?: Platform-Based Experiments in Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Manuela Collis, Productivity under Hostility Liudmyla Petrenko, Reframing the Internship Value Proposition: Field Evidence from a Digital Skills Program Solene Delecourt, The next big field experiment: The impact of negotiation skills on business performance |
| 6:30pm to 6:35pm – Live voting for ‘Best Idea’ Prize | |
| Dinner | |
| 7:00pm to 9:00 pm | Buffet Dinner at INSEAD with IGL Prize Announcements |
| Day 2: Friday, October 10 |
| Breakfast | |
| 8:30am to 9am | Welcome Coffee |
| Gen AI Workshop | |
| 9:00 am to 9:15 am | Welcome and Introduction |
| 9:15 am to 10:30 am | Workshop part 1: Building Better Experiments with AI |
| 10:30 am to 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am to 12:30pm | Workshop part 2: Simulating your Experiment with AI |
| Lunch and High-Level Panel | |
| 12:30pm – 1pm | Grab Buffet Lunch |
| 1pm – 2:30pm | Panel: How AI changes the scientific process Lamar Pierce, Washington University Pierre Azoulay, MIT Melissa Valentine, Stanford University Moderators: Sharique Hasan, Duke University Hyunjin Kim, INSEAD |
| 2:30 – 3pm | Q&A |
| Coffee Break | |
| 3:00pm to 3:30pm | |
| Gen AI Experiment Presentations | |
| 3:30pm to 4:30pm | Master of Ceremonies: Charles Ayoubi Patryk Perkowski, Incentivizing Worker-Driven Innovation: Evidence from Generative AI in European Central Banks Chen Ye, Benefit, Risk, or Reinvention? How Framing and Strategic Focus Shape Manufacturing Managers’ Intentions to Adopt Large Language Models in China Luke DeCoste, How Structuring Entrepreneurial AI Use Affects Decision-Making Under Uncertainty Wajeeha Ahmad, Artificial Authority: A Study of Human-AI Agency Balance in the Workplace Marcos Balmaceda, AI as Metacognitive Scaffold: Enhancing Entrepreneurial Learning Pathways Tamara Schwager, When the AI knows the firm: Experiments with an AI grounded in company-specific knowledge Luca Vendraminelli, How Generative AI is transforming work and organizations Charles Ayoubi, Slimming Ideas: How does AI-compression Impact Innovation Evaluation |
| 4.30pm to 4.45pm | Coffee Refill |
| 4:45pm to 5:30pm | Valentina Contreras, The Effect of Generative AI on Early Stage Business Ideas: An Experimental Approach Nety Wu, Entrepreneurial learning in synthetic environment driven by LLMs Derek Lief, Human-AI Collaboration in the Evolving Landscape of Workplace Learning Xilan Zhang, Unbundling Social Mechanisms in Entrepreneurship Training Nelson Ricardo Laverde Cubillos, Agile Centaurs: Extending Centaur Evaluation Through Experimental Design for Human–AI Collaboration Ravi Bapna, Improving Managers Analytics Capabilities using Agentic AI – The Role of the Context Window Amisha Miller, The Sources of Disparities in Investments: An Experiment with Avatars |
| 5:30pm to 5:35pm | Live voting for ‘Best Idea’ Prize |
| 5:35pm – 5:45pm | Best Idea Prize Awarded |
| 5:45pm to 6:00pm | Announcement of Google DeepMind AI for Organizations Grand Challenge Closing and reflections |
| Closing Reception | |
| 6:00pm – 7:00pm | Drinks reception |
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