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- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50612 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government By: Buell, Ryan W., Ethan Porter, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Three studies, using original View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
It ended up being the best revenue-generating idea Bing ever had, worth $100 million. That experience illustrates why it’s critical to adopt an “experiment with everything” approach, say Kohavi, the head of the Analysis & View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
economist, Ashraf developed the idea of altruistic capital while conducting experimental field research for various global nonprofit organizations. But she believes that her findings on the subject will yield important lessons for the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
appears well-defined, often you can benefit from conceiving it in a new form. The form you conceive for it—the idea of it you have—will determine how (and how well) you solve it. Cheap and rapid experimentation lets you try new forms;... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
effort to strengthen “reasonable price” provisions in California law, pushing for standardized prescription compounding and pricing, as well as price schedules set by manufacturers. “The history of American capitalism has always been about View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
centers I mentioned earlier, we've established the Computer Lab for Experimental Research, for example, and the Faculty Research Computing Center. These resources, and others like them, enable faculty to pursue ambitious, multiyear, and... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
personality characteristic, it is a learned skill. Entrepreneurs try to deal with uncertainty explicitly by running experiments, by not taking risks. An entrepreneur doesn't seek risk; he or she tries to minimize risk. By stressing View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
participation decisions. Based on our experimental results, we suggest preliminary lessons for improving the design of household risk management contracts. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-116.pdf Where Is the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
establish takeaways to guide the creation of future legislation. While current measurement systems are insufficient to make an unambiguous, overarching judgment of the act's net benefits, Srinivasan and Coates isolate a few clear findings and make a case for... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
limit to the changes they could effect in the sector." To help these organizations do that, Grossman concludes his paper with recommendations centering on three areas: knowledge development and information sharing concerning performance metrics via regularly scheduled... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
organizational changes since 2005, the most recent of which started in 2012. His latest experimentation was turning Haier into a platform for entrepreneurship. Employees and those outside Haier could set up microenterprises on Haier’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
violation and distrust, even when the terms of the managers' economic contracts are fulfilled. We examine whether managers whose psychological contracts are breached seek redress by building additional budgetary slack into their budget requests. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
relationships and their core capabilities and expertise. Given the complexity and uncertainty, sequencing and timing of the projects needed to execute these new opportunities is critical. So too is the ability to establish a process of View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Experimentation By: Thomke, Stefan, and Jim Manzi Abstract—The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Exercise of Leadership, a New Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
in nature,” observe the authors of Pettiness in Social Exchange, a paper published last year in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. “That kind of precision can be very off-putting, and we wanted to find out why.” The coauthors, Tami... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
of miscommunication among experimenters and theorists about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
forthcoming Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France By: Pons, Vincent, and Guillaume Liegey Abstract—Improving the political participation of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
relative to the base model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52788 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and Stephen J. Terry Abstract—We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne