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  • 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

labels identifying search engine advertisements. In particular, for a random subset of users, we change "sponsored link" labels to instead read "paid advertisement." We find that users receiving the "paid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50752 Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Celine, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale View Details
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

employees in a large information technology firm. These findings have implications for research on homophily, gender relations in organizations, and formal and informal organizational structure. Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2014
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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,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
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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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Sep 2018
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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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Sep 2017
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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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2018
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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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 27 May 2009
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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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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