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- 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
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Experimentation In August 2017, Commonwealth Bank of Australia was looking for ways to differentiate itself from competing banks and was also trying to improve the financial well-being of its customers. One domain where this was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
is accentuated when people engage in a holistic processing style, whether measured as an individual difference (Study 5A) or experimentally induced (Study 5B). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55670... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
interactive control systems. The module discusses how top managers use the levers of control to inspire commitment to the organization’s purpose, stake out the territory for experimentation and competition, coordinate and monitor the... 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used experimental methodology, demonstrating that recalling a past instance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
and innovate from. Our efforts thus required an experimental laboratory to discover what will enable us as educators and trainers to efficiently and effectively create leaders. Dean Mark Zupan of the University of Rochester Simon School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn, Katherine L. Milkman, and Markus Noth Publication:Journal of Economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
deductive proposition, supported by experimental and observational evidence, other forms of knowledge can be both valid and useful. In particular, Fisher and his colleagues constructed frameworks of prescriptions that, on average, respond... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel