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  • 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

using original experimental as well as field data from the city of Boston, Massachusetts, show that revealing the “submerged state”—ensuring that citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs—enhances both perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

communication but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are each internally homogenous but different from each other, merge, the above results translate to specific predictions how the change in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

and David Drake Abstract—In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior-the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior-the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2006
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How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

Experimentation with many different kayak designs went on in the user-innovation community for about ten years. Then a really superior, "breakthrough" hull design emerged—the center-buoyant planing hull. As a result, the market... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

appear prosocial and not to appear greedy—relates to individuals' volunteer reputations. Experimental results support this possibility. Individuals with past histories of volunteering are less responsive to image concerns if their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2018
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Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

Gone Too Far When Ethan Bernstein used wearable technology to track workers around their open office, he discovered many were trying to avoid collaboration rather than engage in it. How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit Reshmaan Hussam and colleagues used View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

innovation. While arguments exist for and against policy support of entrepreneurial clusters, our understanding of what works and how it works is quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

markets (rather than just worse firms). This is true even for the most experienced VCs. Furthermore, our results suggest that the flood of capital in hot markets also plays a causal role in shifting investments to more novel startups-by lowering the cost of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

consistent with our theorizing. However, while significant, perspective-taking does not mediate these relationships in the expected direction, because it has a negative effect on sales. In Studies 2a and 2b, both experimental studies, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

embraced these progressive prescriptions for public-private regulation. This essay explains how a subset of USCC members fostered industry-wide "codes of fair competition" by participating in experimental studies like those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2020
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Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

community-based organizations. COVID-19 has disrupted GPP’s school-based activities, which include teacher training and the Teen Advisory Council, a program that supports students as they educate their peers about the dangers of prescription drug misuse and View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 18 Jun 2012
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Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

question that we look at—joint versus separate evaluation—a long time ago," Bohnet says, adding that the idea for the paper came from "a combination of Max's earlier work thinking about joint versus separate evaluation in the domain of product evaluation,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

punishment are correlated. We present three pieces of evidence (across countries, within the U.S., and an experimental exercise) that are consistent with the model. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17309 Pricing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

collection will be of great interest to scholars of entrepreneurship, international business and business history. Psychology and Experimental Economics: A Gap in Abstraction Authors:Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton Periodical:Current... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2018
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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
  • 25 Aug 2022
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It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

job seekers if a startup was funded by a top-tier VC firm—for example, a badge for startups funded by Kleiner Perkins or Accel Partners. A second badge simply showed if the firm had been recently funded. The experimental design randomly... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

Solutions to these challenges are the province of market design—a blend of game theory and experimental economics. Roth, a professor of both business and economics at Harvard, is a leading market designer. He and his colleagues have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

that our experimental design minimizes informational social influence, homophily, and group-identity signaling to the general public. We find that there exists significant social influence within a user’s friend circles. While learning... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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