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- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the giver. That's the insight into the secret of happiness View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Elon Musk and the Dying Art of the Big Bet
The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World
In this book, Michael Luca and Max Bazerman explain the importance of experiments for decision making in a data-driven world. Luca and Bazerman describe the central role experiments play in the tech sector, drawing lessons and best practices from the experiences of... View Details
- 2020
- Book
The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World
By: Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman
Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of changes to an...
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Randomized Controlled Trials;
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Decision Making;
Analytics and Data Science;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Luca, Michael, and Max H. Bazerman. The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
- 24 Oct 2011
- News
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
- 07 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Art of Haggling
behavior and protracted disputes. Integrative bargaining is the process that is emphasized in most professional schools. Rightly so, says Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice Michael A. Wheeler, who notes that many...
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by Katie Johnston
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
from Firm-Level Surveys, was conducted by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Zoe Cullen and Associate Professors Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton, with colleagues...
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by Kristen Senz
- 04 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Revision Bias
- 18 Jul 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains
- 26 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
- 08 May 2017
- News
Restaurants With Low Yelp Ratings Suffer Under Higher Minimum Wages
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
boost his or her motivation. It does—under certain conditions. The evolving field of behavioral economics is challenging the assumption that more money inevitably leads to increased effort. In a recent field study that he conducted along with Harvard colleagues Duncan...
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by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
generous to them” Humblebragging runs rampant on Twitter, but it turns out to be a lousy self-promotion tactic, especially in business situations such as job interviews, according to recent research by Harvard Business School's Ovul...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 15 May 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Flexing the Frame: TMT Framing and the Adoption of Non-Incremental Innovations in Incumbent Firms
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Universal Desire for More Equal Pay" by Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton, copyright 2014, Perspectives on Psychological Science "Executive Paywatch: High-paid CEOs and the Low-Wage Economy,"...
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- 25 Apr 2016
- News
#AirbnbWhileBlack: How Hidden Bias Shapes The Sharing Economy
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
conversant in these issues, Luca says. The advent of digital economists is unlikely to kill collaborations between academia and tech companies. By working with academic economists, tech companies benefit...
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- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
The American economy is a mess, and our broken political system is largely to blame, according to a Harvard Business School US Competitiveness Project report released today. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, and Mihir A. Desai...
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by Dina Gerdeman