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  • 15 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
  • January 2014
  • Case

MIT Mystery Hunt: The Answer is Secondary

By: Willy Shih and Karen Robinson
The MIT Mystery Hunt is an annual puzzle-based scavenger hunt at MIT. It is run every year by a different team, and every year is slightly different as teams try new ideas and decide whether to keep or ignore new ideas from previous years. As the Mystery Hunt has... View Details
Keywords: Puzzle-solving; Puzzle Hunt; MIT Mystery Hunt; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Education Industry; Massachusetts; Cambridge; United States
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  • October 2014
  • Article

Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
We construct measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Current Account; Aid/government Debt; Reserves; Puzzles; Productivity; Sovereign Finance; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics
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  • June 2012
  • Response

Solution to Exchanges 10.2 Puzzle: Borrowing in the Limit as Our Nerdiness Goes to Infinity

By: Ran I. Shorrer
This is a solution to the editor's puzzle from issue 10.2 of SIGecom Exchanges [Reeves 2011]. The puzzle asks to determine a point in time such that a lump sum payment of $S will be equivalent to a continuous stream of infinitesimal payments totaling $S, spread evenly... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods
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  • 30 Aug 2021
  • News

Kominers’s Conundrums: A Heist Leads to a Virtual Adventure

  • 27 Jun 2021
  • News

Kominers’s Conundrums: A Top Secret Search for Galactic Gourds

  • 01 Aug 2020
  • News

Kominers’s Conundrums: 14 Faces, One Main Event

  • 31 Oct 2021
  • News

Kominers’s Conundrums: Can You Escape the Conjurer’s Curse?

  • 25 Jul 2021
  • News

Kominers’s Conundrums: The Olympics of Brainteasers Is Here

  • 18 Jul 2021
  • News

Kominers’s Conundrums: Fast Forwarding Your Favorite Games

  • 26 Sep 2021
  • News

Kominers’s Conundrums: Weight Weight… Don’t Tell Me!

  • 25 Jun 2012
  • News

Hierarchy’s Last Stand: Your Paycheck

  • 18 Nov 2020
  • News

US election: What it means for climate change and ESG

  • November 2020
  • Case

Axis My India

By: Ananth Raman, Ann Winslow and Kairavi Dey
Pradeep Gupta founded Axis My India (AMI) as a printing and publishing company in 1998. In 2013, AMI expanded into consumer research and election forecasting. Although a relatively unknown entity, AMI predicted several election results accurately. Gupta describes AMI’s... View Details
Keywords: Market Research; Operations; Management; Infrastructure; Logistics; Service Operations; Political Elections; Forecasting and Prediction; Asia; India
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  • July 1976
  • Article

Effects of Externally-Imposed Deadlines on Subsequent Intrinsic Motivation

By: T. M. Amabile, W. DeJong and M. R. Lepper
Studied the effects of externally imposed deadlines on individuals' task performance and their subsequent interest in the task. In 1 deadline condition, 20 male undergraduates were given an explicit time limit for solving a series of initially interesting word games.... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Time Management; Social Psychology; Situation or Environment
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  • 02 Sep 2014
  • News

Contextual Intelligence

  • 12 Dec 2021
  • News

Kominers’s Conundrums: Houston, We Have a Cube-Shaped Problem

  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

  Working PapersAccountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng Abstract Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid economic growth than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2010 (Revised November 2011)
  • Case

Soren Chemical: Why Is the New Swimming Pool Product Sinking?

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sunru Yong
Topics include distribution channels, pricing, and new product marketing. Jen Moritz, the marketing manager for Soren Chemical Co. is struggling with the poor sales performance of Coracle, a new clarifier for residential swimming pools. The performance is puzzling... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Mix; New Product Marketing; Pricing; Branding; Price; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Product Launch; Brands and Branding; Communication Strategy; Chemical Industry
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  • January 25, 2021
  • Blog Post

Lower Income Translates to Fewer Happy Experiences—Here Is How We Can Fix It

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Adam Eric Greenberg
Can money actually buy happiness? Research shows that having more money makes people evaluate their lives more favorably (what researchers call “life satisfaction”). Surprising as it may seem, whether money leads to greater life satisfaction because it makes people... View Details
Keywords: Life Satisfaction; Social Justice; Money; Happiness; Satisfaction; Well-being
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