Behind the Scenes
Field Implementation and Logistics
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm GMT, 9 January 2026
The IGL PhD community brings together early-career researchers looking to enhance their skills in experimental research and get feedback from both their peers and senior scholars.
One of our workshop series is “Behind the Scenes” which consists of talks by senior researchers, focused on the practical, sometimes invisible, decisions that shape experimental research in organisations and management. These sessions follow the rough timeline of a typical journal publication process for field experiments, starting with experimental design and pre-registration, then moving toward implementation, recruitment, funding, revision, and publishing. Sessions will run every other month, with each session focused on a concrete stage of the research process.
If you are interested in joining the PhD Community and participating in the sessions, please browse for more information here and register your interest here.
Our third session will be on:
📅January 9, 2026 – 2:00-3:00 pm GMT / 9:00-10:00 am EST –
Field Implementation and Logistics
📌 Topic: Field Implementation and Logistics
- Running comparable experiments across different settings
- Implementing an evaluation lab
- Assessing the impact of multiple parallel experiments in digital reskilling
- Working with local partners
- Training field staff and maintaining fidelity to protocols
- Handling unexpected shocks (policy changes, organizational turnover)
- Aligning incentives with partners, including negotiating data access and IP
👤 Discussants: Raffaella Sadun- Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.