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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
risks—including spending hours reading or watching the news. "This is such an impermanent state of affairs that we just have to do as best we can." Rather than ruminating on the virus and replaying possible future outcomes in our minds, it’s best to let go of the...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments By: Kuziemko, Ilyana, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva Abstract—We analyze randomized online survey experiments providing interactive,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
designed to measure creativity. Those who cheated were subsequently more creative than noncheaters, even when we accounted for individual differences in their creative ability (Experiment 1). Using random assignment, we confirmed that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
Abstract—We explore how people balance their needs to belong and to be different from their friends by studying their choices of a virtual-house wall color on a leading Chinese social-networking site. The setting enables us to randomize...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company investigated these questions, finding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
methods (decision trees, random forests, K-nearest neighbors, and neural networks) to reveal patterns in data that could be used for theory building. We also illustrate how ML methods can illuminate interactions and non-linear effects...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer applicant quality from information on enrolled students....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
if we take on the responsibility, we'll work to control our own costs. Health care is 17 percent of our gross domestic product. If we can drive down costs while improving outcomes, that will be much more favorable to our economy and to...
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- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
foreclosure discounts appear to be related to the threat of vandalism in low-priced neighborhoods. After aggregating to the zip-code level and controlling for regional price trends, the prices of forced sales are mean-reverting, while the...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
codes in the treatment and control regions; these procedures have been developed by scholars in other fields to approximate datasets that would have resulted from random experimentation. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
How should a company deliver financial news—both good and bad—to a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including investors, customers, government, and environmentalists? Energy giants Total and BP have learned best practices through trial and...
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- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
internal beneficiary that made connectedness salient yielded a persistent increase in productivity relative to a control group. We validate this effect in the laboratory and provide evidence that the effect is mediated by an enhanced...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
After a first year of trial rollout in Israel, CEO Lihi Segal and her team are devising a global go-to-market plan for the firm. The team is considering several target markets, ranging from people with diabetes to professional athletes,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
more important than when information is monopolized by the government. If not constrained, government’s monopoly control of information, combined with its incentives to shape support for its policies, may at some times and in some ways...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
albums—and because it is among the sectors most strongly affected by digital technology. So I reached out to Nielsen SoundScan, the company that tracks recorded-music sales in North America, to obtain data for a random sample of over 200...
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- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
look at how companies could more effectively leverage structured, randomized experiments to inform decision-making. His goal: Enable C-suite leaders to avoid the blind spots and blunders that can occur when making decisions based on data...
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by Danielle Kost
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
horizons. We also demonstrate that nonlinear boosting models with feature selection, such as random forests, perform significantly better than traditional linear models. The best-performing method (random forest) yields an out-of-sample...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in standard configurations and in modified versions with clearer labels identifying search engine advertisements. In particular, for a random subset of users, we change...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
of 13 and 14 pounds respectively after four months, compared to only 4 pounds in the first group. Moreover, about half of the participants in each of the two incentive groups met their target goal of 16 pounds, compared to only 10 percent of the View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
for companies to explain their rationale for the limitations they place on computer usage. Control access to your systems. You don't allow just anyone off the street to wander in and use your company's fax machines or sit in on a strategy...
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