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  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

Davin, Joseph P., Sunil Gupta, and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract—We study the impact of peer behavior on the adoption of mobile apps in a social network. To identify social influence properly, we introduce latent space as an approach to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to and marketing of an individually held commitment savings product lead to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

development is a drawn-out process of trial and error, often ping-ponging between manufacturer and customer. First, the manufacturer develops a prototype based on information from customers that is incomplete and only partially correct.... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

and Heidi Liu Abstract— Eleven experiments provide evidence that people have a tendency to “shoot the messenger,” deeming innocent bearers of bad news unlikeable. In a preregistered lab experiment, participants rated messengers who delivered bad news from a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

is nearly as large.   Working PapersPrice Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand Functions with Random Coefficients Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret Pierson Abstract In this paper, we postulate a general class of price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti Abstract—Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. An Evolutionary Approach to Financial History Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Cold Spring Harbor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

2016 Random House The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change By: Anand, Bharat Abstract—Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, I examine a range... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

the official government of a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is... View Details
  • 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
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

evidence. This paper analyzes the role of third-party information for VAT enforcement through two randomized experiments among over 400,000 Chilean firms. Announcing additional monitoring has less impact on transactions that are subject... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

propensity score matched samples. We find significant heterogeneity in corporate disclosure responses across those four countries. Relative to propensity score matched control firms, treated firms in China and South Africa increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

which a time-stamped sensor is embedded. We randomize distribution of these soap dispensers as well as provision of monitoring (feedback reports) or monitoring and incentives for daily handwashing. Relative to a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

"Harvard 'B' for Peace." It was an extraordinary introduction to student life at the B-School, and as events such as the student killings at Kent State and Jackson State, the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and the trial of the Chicago Seven... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

are due to attendance and are conditional on high levels of attendance and those holding leadership positions within the IETF. Surprisingly, standards endorsement is insignificant when controlling for simple physical attendance. These... 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
  • 21 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

basic ways: Decision calculus: Knowledgeable people use their judgment in a systematic way to predict how consumers will respond to actions. Experiments: The company trials different marketing actions, either in the field or in a lab, on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne