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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Side of the Vote: Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting Authors: Rebecca B. Morton, Marco Piovesan, and Jean-Robert Tyran Abstract We experimentally investigate information aggregation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
and Experimentation Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship, edited by Kim S. Cameron and Gretchen M. Spreitzer. Oxford University Press, 2011 An abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
in press Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pseudo-Set Framing By: Barasz, Kate, Leslie John, Elizabeth A. Keenan, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Pseudo-set framing—arbitrarily grouping items or tasks together as part of an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2014
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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
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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
- 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
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
impact on discriminatory behavior. Smart choices and transparent experimentation can create markets that are both more efficient and more inclusive. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51982 Selection and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Sep 2016
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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
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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
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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
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
wills to a search for fairness principles. Fisher did not create knowledge of the deductive, experimental kind most common in social science research. Yet Roger and his colleagues developed frameworks of aphorisms that, on average,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
sector may be traced back to fundamental properties of the underlying technologies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-144.pdf Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
positive. Our experimental findings are consistent with the existence of domain-contingent inequality aversion; we also find that inequality aversion in equity is more severe than in salary because of the perceived scarcity of equity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
F. Ward, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (forthcoming) Abstract When people are the victims of greed or recipients of generosity, their first impulse is often to pay back that behavior in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
familiarity could aid in the process of team learning. In an experimental study, we find that familiar teams learn at a faster rate than unfamiliar teams. Additionally, we find that team familiarity leads to the development of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
effects, we use experimental methods to demonstrate that participants who imagined shopping with their own bags are more likely to spontaneously consider purchasing chips or dessert items and indicate relatively higher willingness to pay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne