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 (ETH Zürich and Harvard Business School) |
| 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 (World Bank) |
| 1:45 pm to 2.00 pm | Discussion: David Hsu (Wharton) |
| 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 (UCL School of Management) |
| 3:00pm – 3:15pm | Putting AI on the Org Chart: Evidence on Oversight and Accountability, Emma Wiles (Boston University) |
| 3:15pm – 3:30pm | Discussion: Bo Cowgill (Columbia Business School) |
| 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 (University of Maryland) Competition and Gender in the STEM Pipeline: Field Experimental Evidence from a Curricular Learning System in Colombia, Aparajita Agarwal (INSEAD) When Autonomy Backfires: Adverse Selection in Startup Recruitment, Reuben Hurst (University of Maryland) Framing the Hustle: Experimental Evidence from Motivating Recycling in Lagos, Nigeria, Diana Jue-Rajasingh (Rice University) When a Brother and Sister Cofound: Field-Experiment Evidence on Sibling Cofounding and the Hiring Penalty in New Ventures, Yiru (Susan) Wang (Wharton) Why Don’t Women Sign Up? How Inclusion Signaling Shapes Preferences and Enrollment in Entrepreneurship Training, Naja Pape (INSEAD) Sorted by Faith: Religious Purpose, Worker Attraction, and the Limits of Inclusive Framing, Derek Lief (Fordham University) |
| 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 (University of Toronto) |
| 9:45am to 10:00am | Penalized or Protected? Field-Experiment Evidence on When Spousal Teams Face a Hiring Penalty, Tiantian Yang (Wharton) |
| 10:00am to 10:15am | Discussion: Venkat Kuppuswamy (Northeastern University) |
| 10:15am to 10:35am | Q&A |
| 10:35am to 11:00am | Break |
| The past, present, and future of grant funding for science and social science | |
| 11:00 am to 11:20 am | The role of federal and philanthropic funding in America’s scientific ecosystem, Daniel Gross (Duke University) |
| 11:20 am to 11:30 am | Field perspectives on funding, David McKenzie (World Bank) |
| 11:30 am to 11:40am Q&A | |
| 11:40 am to 11:50 pm | Coffee refill |
| 11:50 pm to 12:30pm | The anatomy of a funded experiment Fabrizio Dell’Acqua (Harvard Business School) Amisha Miller (NYU) Hyunjin Kim (INSEAD) |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch |
| Test your Experiment (Pre-experiment idea pitches) | |
1:30pm – 2:50pm | Master of Ceremonies: Derek Lief (Fordham University) Leveraging RCTs for more evidence-based Climate Policies, Nils Handler (Berlin School of Economics) How Does AI Tutoring Logic Shape Entrepreneurial Reasoning and Hypothesis Revision? Evidence from a Pre-Registered Three-Arm Field Experiment, Luke DeCoste (Claremont Graduate University) Not All Ideas Are Equal: Do Idea Endorsements Shape Platform Engagement but Distort Idea Evaluation?, Patrycja Julia Rogozińska-Heiler (Aarhus University) Ethnic Alignment, Evaluation, and AI: Evidence from a Mentorship-based Candidate Evaluation Experiment, Anna Szerb (NYU Abu Dhabi) The Digital Gatekeeper: A Simulation Approach to Recruitment and Worker Screening using LLMs, Mariya Pominova (Duke University) Beyond Joint Liability: Testing Digital Peer Governance for Women Entrepreneurs in Mexico, Majo Agreda (Cornell University) Rethinking “Fit”: A Simple Nudge to Close the Gender Gap in STEM Job Applications in Engineering Applications, Rongjin Zhang (University of Minnesota) When Learnings Fail? Entrepreneurial Customer Discovery and Demand Validation, Miaomiao Zhang (Harvard Business School) The Transformative Power of Generative AI: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment, Luca Vendraminelli (Stanford University) From Flexibility to Consistency: Peer Effects in Gig Work, Maren Mickeler (ESSEC Business School) The value of voice as data, Alexander Staub (Universidad Ramon Lull, ESADE) Reaching Across the Aisle: How Entrepreneurs Navigate Polarization Around Environmental Issues on Equity Crowdfunding Platforms, Annaleena Parhankangas (Iowa State University) The Penalty (or Premium) of Purpose: An Audit Study on the Hiring Consequences of Working for Nonprofit and Sustainable Organizations, Khonika Gope (University of Oregon) Does Encouraging Scientific Thinking Affect Experimentation, Learning, and Exit? An Online Experiment, Tianli Li (Washington University in St. Louis) A Simulation-Based Approach to Testing the Efficacy of Anti-Corruption Training in the Presence of Strategic Priorities and Corruption-Tolerant Competitors, Farzam Boroomand (University of South Carolina) Safe to Try: How Failure-Tolerant Practices Enable Experimentation and Innovation, Leke Jegede (Harvard Business School) |
| 2:50pm to 3:00pm | Live voting for ‘Best Idea’ Prize |
| 3:00pm to 3:15pm | Break |
| Session 4: Better Not More: The role of a human researcher in an AI world | |
| 3:15pm to 4:45pm | Open debate and Q&A Speakers: Sharique Hasan (Duke University) Lamar Pierce (Washington University in St. Louis) Rem Koning (Harvard Business School) |
| 4:45pm – 4:50pm | Best Idea Prize Awarded |
| 4:50pm to 5:00pm | Closing and reflections |
| 5:00pm – 6:30pm | Drinks reception on the rooftop |
