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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews

By: Loretti I. Dobrescu, Michael Luca and Alberto Motta
This paper investigates the determinants of expert reviews in the book industry. Reviews are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to... View Details
Keywords: Books; Quality; Experience and Expertise; Relationships; Publishing Industry
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  • 10 Jan 2018
  • News

Time to end the debate and face facts: Minimum wage laws hurt the poor

  • July 2021
  • Article

The Effect of Price on Firm Reputation

By: Michael Luca and Oren Reshef
While a business's reputation can affect its pricing, prices can also affect its reputation. To explore the effect of prices on reputation, we investigate daily data on menu prices and online ratings from a large rating and ordering platform. We find that a price... View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Reputation Systems; IT Policy And Management; Economics Of Digital Platforms; Business Ventures; Reputation; Price; Consumer Behavior; Analysis
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  • 13 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

Business School. “They need to cut expenses to the bone to ride out this crisis.” Stanton worked with HBS colleagues Michael Luca and Zoe Cullen; Harvard University economics... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June, 2021
  • Article

Learning from Deregulation: The Asymmetric Impact of Lockdown and Reopening on Risky Behavior During COVID-19

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Ginger Zhe Jin, Benjamin T. Leyden and Michael Luca
During the COVID-19 pandemic, states issued and then rescinded stay-at-home orders that restricted mobility. We develop a model of learning by deregulation, which predicts that lifting stay-at-home orders can signal that going out has become safer. Using restaurant... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Lockdown; Reopening; Impact; Coronavirus; Public Health Measures; Mobility; Health Pandemics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior
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  • 15 Jun 2018
  • News

How customer complaints help companies

  • 12 May 2016
  • News

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

  • 02 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

level. Their work has been both influenced by and reported recently by several academics. Harvard Business School professors Michael View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • News

Mass Shootings Don't Lead to Inaction—They Lead to Loosening Gun Restrictions

  • January 23, 2023
  • Article

Digital Public Health Interventions at Scale: The Impact of Social Media Advertising on Beliefs and Outcomes Related to COVID Vaccines

By: Susan Athey, Kristen Grabarz, Michael Luca and Nils Wernerfelt
Public health organizations increasingly use social media advertising campaigns in pursuit of public health goals. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of about $40 million of social media advertisements that were run and experimentally tested on Facebook and... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Public Health; Vaccines; Social Media; Advertising; Power and Influence; Health Care and Treatment
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  • 25 Oct 2020
  • News

How Consumers Really Use Online Reviews

  • 17 Oct 2017
  • News

Handgun Waiting Periods Actually Do Save Lives

  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

Assistant Professor Michael Luca found in a field experiment. “As consumers come to expect everything on-demand in the wake of the growing popularity of on-demand apps, such as Uber, Lyft, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 29 Jun 2015
  • News

High-Profile Study Turns Up the Antitrust Heat on Google

  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit

By: Dara Lee Luca and Michael Luca
We study the impact of the minimum wage on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting recent changes in the minimum wage at the city level. We find that the impact of the minimum wage depends on whether a restaurant was already close to the margin of exit.... View Details
Keywords: Wages; Business Exit or Shutdown; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Benefits of Revealing Race: Evidence from Minority-owned Local Businesses

By: Abhay Aneja, Michael Luca and Oren Reshef
Is there latent demand to support Black-owned businesses? To explore, we analyze a new feature that made it easier to identify Black-owned restaurants on a large online platform. We find that labeling restaurants as “Black-owned” increased customer engagement and... View Details
Keywords: Black-owned Businesses; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Ownership; Knowledge Dissemination; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54145 Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Yoshimi Anzai, Marta E. Heilbrun, Derek Haas, Luca Boi, Kirk Moshre, Satoshi Minoshima, and Vivian S. Lee Abstract—The lack of understanding the true costs (not charges) of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

Ann Glynn 2021 Michael Christensen Management, 2021 Placement: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, Lecturer Dissertation: Antecedents, Process, and Consequences: Strategic Choice in... View Details