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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Business School Press) When he talks about his research on the process, economics, and management of experimentation, Associate Professor Stefan Thomke is fond of quoting Thomas Edison’s notion that “the real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
the prospects for implementation in the field. We present the decision process and competition design considerations that lead to these successful outcomes as a model for researchers who want to use competitions and non-domain crowds as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
financial incentives do not appear to crowd it out. Third, the responses to both types of incentives are stronger when their relative value is higher. Indeed, financial rewards are effective at motivating the poorest agents, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
airfield to see what was happening. Their clandestine arrival was “a carnival,” according to one of the B-17 pilots. The crowd burst into applause at the sight of Green in his full khaki Navy work uniform, with the single star and two... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without engaging in infringement. Our empirical analysis shows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
and hence crowd out the motivation to volunteer? Since the strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved, the answer is theoretically unclear, and corresponding empirical evidence is mixed. To help counter this ambiguity, this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
In 1995, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts reopened its grand front entrance on busy Huntington Avenue. The symbolism was hard to miss. After decades of attracting a scholarly, sophisticated, highbrow crowd to its side entry, the MFA was... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
Editor's note: Check out the crowd at a concert, a movie, a school play, a beach—heck, even a funeral—and you'll likely see several people sneaking prolonged peeks at their smartphones. They just can't help themselves. Ringtones and... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
describes the efforts of Beiersdorf, a worldwide leader in the cosmetics and skin care industries, to generate and commercialize new R&D through open innovation using external crowds and "netnographic" analysis. Beiersdorf,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
got a US government that lacks the latitude to move that it had in the 1980s: large government debts and obligations facing the US now threaten to crowd out the investments in infrastructure, innovation, and individuals that we need to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
intrinsic motivation for the cause and by facilitating social comparison among agents. Third, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
got a high-tech upgrade. On a warm July day at a little past 11 a.m., as the early lunch crowd shuffles in, Karavites runs through the changes: digital menu boards, a mobile ordering system, a new delivery collaboration with UberEATS, and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
we could tap the wisdom of the crowd to help design them? When you start thinking about making cars this way, at some point you’ve ceased thinking about cars and started thinking about a modern alternative to mass production. People will... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
Malaysia, and African countries. Eastern European countries have their own set of challenges, potentially benefiting from the EU yet not large enough and therefore getting crowded out. Q: What are "institutional voids," and how should... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
wheels together and they would try to blow each other down. Right? And the winner would obviously have the larger crowd that that night. So you have to put it in the context of Bolden constantly feeling like he has to protect his title.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
history of aviation is such a romantic part of our culture. Do you have a favorite figure from the past century? Listen, the people who built and flew airplanes at the very beginning are all heroes — Bill Boeing, Charles Lindbergh. Then there are those who went into... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
visitors and that locals weren’t crowded out. Could the two parties now find dry land? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817013-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-014 Airbnb in Amsterdam (B) In December... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
store grew, the space became so crowded that at times the copier was rolled out onto the sidewalk and used for self-service customers. Today, some analysts estimate annual revenues from the privately held chain's 850 business services and... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
incentives is associated with higher carbon emissions. This result holds both in cross-sectional and time-series analysis. Moreover, we find that the use of nonmonetary incentives is associated with lower carbon emissions. Consistent with monetary incentives View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
investing, bringing transparency to the financial services market, and enabling retail investors to invest their capital in a way that aligned with their values. However, getting to scale and profitability in the crowded robo-advisors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne