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- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
of formal authority, but limited it with democratic mechanisms that enabled experimentation with shifting conceptions of authority over time. When members settle on a shared conception of authority, it is more expansive than their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
describes a growing experimental literature that suggests how perceived ethics surrounding transactions with multiple partners can encourage misbehavior. It is noted that causing harm indirectly through another can protect harm doers.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
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
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
to read the book and to comment that "becoming an outstanding leader is not very different from becoming a chef. Both roles require passion, discipline, authenticity, and an experimental attitude." Bennis apparently had an... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
of variety in their products because of the experiments they conduct. Instead, the results showed just the opposite. While the cost of experimentation in the furniture industry is relatively low, Verganti and his colleague found that the... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
States but around the world that hamper rapid iteration and experimentation in the product development process. This, in turn, stifles innovation, scares off private investors and creates an industry-regulatory culture that has grown to... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
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
- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
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
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
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
- Research & Ideas
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
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
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
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
documents a role for debt financing related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects and how this impacts optimal financing design. We further highlight the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
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 Oct 2011
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
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
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
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