Tuesday, July 28
| 5.00pm to 8:00pm | PhD Welcome Reception |
Wednesday, July 29
| PhD Workshop on Designing and Running Field Experiments (Rubenstein Conference Center Room) | |
| 8.30am to 9am | PhD Registration and Breakfast |
| 9am to 9:10am | Introduction to Field Experiments and the Strategy Experiment Canvas |
| 9:10am to 10am | Case Studies on Field Experiment Design |
| 10:00am to 10:30am | Coffee break |
| 10:00am to 12pm | Building a Strategy Experiment Canvas PhD Workshop Mentors: Luke DeCoste, Patrycja Rogozinska, Miaomiao Zhang, Manuela Collis, Anna Szerb, Naja Pape |
| 12pm to 12.50pm | PhD Lunch |
| Introduction to CFXS (Lower Level Conference Room) |
| 12:50pm to 1:00pm | Welcome Coffee |
| 1:00 pm – 1:15pm | Welcoming remarks from the CFXS team |
| Session 1: Innovation Evaluation | |
| 1:15 pm to 1:30 pm | The Mean-Variance Innovation Tradeoff in AI-Augmented Evaluations, Cyrille Grumbach |
| 1:30 pm to 1:45 pm | Who Should We Fund, and How Much Should We Give Them? Experimental Evidence from a Kenyan Business Plan Competition, David McKenzie |
| 1:45 pm to 2.00 pm | Discussion: TBA |
| 2:00 pm to 2:20 pm | Q&A |
| 2:20pm to 2:45pm | Break |
| Session 2: AI & Organisation Design | |
| 2:45pm – 3:00pm | Human Learning from Predictive AI: Experimental Evidence from Cancer Diagnosis, Vivianna Fang He |
| 3:00pm – 3:15pm | Putting AI on the Org Chart: Evidence on Oversight and Accountability, Emma Wiles |
| 3:15pm – 3:30pm | Discussion: Bo Cowgill |
| 3.30pm – 3:50pm | Q&A |
| Innovation Pipeline Creation | |
| 3:50pm – 5:00pm | The Effect of Relatable Role Models on Women’s Interest in STEM Entrepreneurship, Brent Goldfarb Competition and Gender in the STEM Pipeline: Field Experimental Evidence from a Curricular Learning System in Colombia, Aparajita Agarwal When Autonomy Backfires: Adverse Selection in Startup Recruitment, Reuben Hurst Framing the Hustle: Experimental Evidence from Motivating Recycling in Lagos, Nigeria, Diana Jue-Rajasingh When a Brother and Sister Cofound: Field-Experiment Evidence on Sibling Cofounding and the Hiring Penalty in New Ventures, Yiru (Susan) Wang Why Don’t Women Sign Up? How Inclusion Signaling Shapes Preferences and Enrollment in Entrepreneurship Training, Naja Pape Sorted by Faith: Religious Purpose, Worker Attraction, and the Limits of Inclusive Framing, Derek Lief |
| 5:00pm to 5:10pm | IGL Prize Announcement |
| 6:00pm – 8:00 pm | Buffet Dinner on rooftop |
Thursday, July 30
| 9:00am to 9:30am | Welcome Coffee |
| Session 3: Family Entrepreneurship | |
| 9:30am to 9:45am | The Voice of Kin: How Consultative Family Participation Shapes Investment and Profit in Micro‑Enterprises, Stefan Dimitriadis |
| 9:45am to 10:00am | Penalized or Protected? Field-Experiment Evidence on When Spousal Teams Face a Hiring Penalty, Tiantian Yang |
| 10:00am to 10:15am | Discussion: TBA |
| 10:15am to 10:35am | Q&A |
| 10:35am to 11:00am | Break |
| The past, present, and future of grant funding for field experiments | |
| 11:00 am to 11:10 am | A brief history of field experiment funding |
| 11:10 am to 11:40 am | The anatomy of a funded experiment |
| 11:40 am to 11:55 am | Coffee refill |
| 11:55 am to 12:30pm | Funders’ perspectives & open debate |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch |
| Test your Experiment (Pre-experiment idea pitches) | |
1:30pm – 2:40pm | Leveraging RCTs for more evidence-based Climate Policies, Nils Handler Signal from Slop: Accelerator Screenings that use AI to Train Applicants and Improve Selection for the AI-era, Luke DeCoste Not All Ideas Are Equal: Do Idea Endorsements Shape Platform Engagement but Distort Idea Evaluation?, Patrycja Julia Rogozińska-Heiler Ethnic Alignment, Evaluation, and AI: Evidence from a Mentorship-based Candidate Evaluation Experiment, Anna Szerb The Digital Gatekeeper: A Simulation Approach to Recruitment and Worker Screening using LLMs, Mariya Pominova Beyond Joint Liability: Testing Digital Peer Governance for Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico, Majo Agreda Rethinking “Fit”: A Simple Nudge to Close the Gender Gap in STEM Job Applications in Engineering Applications, Rongjin Zhang When Learnings Fail? Entrepreneurial Customer Discovery and Demand Validation, Miaomiao Zhang The Transformative Power of Generative AI: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment, Luca Vendraminelli From Flexibility to Consistency: Peer Effects in Gig Work, Maren Mickeler The value of voice as data, Alexander Staub Reaching Aental Issues, Annaleena Parhankangas AI generated media, Riitta Katila The Penalty (or Premium) of Purpose: An Audit Study on the Hiring Consequences of Working for Nonprofit and Sustainable Organizations, Khonika Gope Does Encouraging Scientific Thinking Affect Experimentation, Learning, and Exit? An Online Experiment, Tianli Li |
| 2:40pm to 2:50pm | Live voting for ‘Best Idea’ Prize |
| 2:50pm to 3:00pm | Break |
| Session 4: Reinventing the research workflow with AI | |
| 3:00pm to 4:00pm | This interactive session will showcase practical ways researchers are integrating AI across the research workflow. Through a series of live demonstrations and case studies, speakers will share tools, workflows, and insights highlighting both the opportunities and limitations of AI in research. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with presenters, explore emerging applications, and reflect on how these tools can enhance the efficiency and quality of their own research. |
| 4:00pm – 4:05pm | Best Idea Prize Awarded |
| 4:05pm to 4:15pm | Closing and reflections |
| 4:15pm – 6:00pm | Drinks reception on the rooftop |
