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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
environment at Cayman and was open to experimentation in the coming months. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Health-City-Cayman-Island/an/714510-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-013 AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
performance. Combining network analysis with experimental methods, two studies using different samples found that networks' degree of cultural heterogeneity positively predicts creativity on tasks that draw on varied cultural-knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
Firms Use Non-linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence Authors: Ian Larkin and Stephen Leider Abstract Non-linear incentive schemes are commonly used to determine employee pay, despite their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
waiting in line at the airport. Later, he decided to conduct a field experiment to explore the question. He and a team of experimenters equipped with small bills approached 500 people in lines and offered a cash payment of up to $10 to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
can invent and bring new ideas. They are there. There is amazing talent already inside government. Lagace: How can public entrepreneurs manage tensions between experimentation and failure? Weiss: In the book, I quote organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
prevention-focused questions. We demonstrate that every additional prevention-focused question significantly hinders the entrepreneur's ability to raise capital, fully mediating gender's effect on funding. By experimentally testing an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
in an overarching aspiration coupled with a contradictory strategic challenge. The challenge to simultaneously explore and exploit provides the logic, tension, and requirement for experimentation that helps an extended management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51587 Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure By: Jin, Ginger Zhe, Michael Luca, and Daniel Martin Abstract—This paper uses laboratory... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
high-beta stocks. An Empirical Analysis of Innovation Contests: Strategic Incentives, Problem Uncertainty and Independent Experimentation along Parallel Paths Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
PublicationsFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior Authors:L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn Publication:In The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation What does it take to truly change the world? Hirotaka Takeuchi shares the practices that help leading companies turn knowledge into lasting breakthroughs. Experimentation Works: The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
designing focused experiments to test hypotheses in a capital-efficient fashion in order to achieve product-market fit. But ICOs substantially limit the benefits associated with such staged experimentation for three reasons. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016
outside directors with more expertise and experience. Also, busy directors are less likely to serve on multiple committees, possibly to avoid being overloaded. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51853 Cost of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
experimenter who had made them wait, or not interrupting at all. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44857 Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital By: Wang, Charles C.Y.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
knowledge for care and the way it is applied in practice to patient health problems. These changes include increasing knowledge specificity and the standardized sequential care processes this has allowed; the experimental nature of some... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
understand why experimental subjects might begin negotiations anticipating "fair" bargains. The model also explains why some parties may have incentives to deliberately write incomplete contracts which cannot be enforced in a... 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
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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