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  • 28 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

incorporate efforts to measure discrimination into their experimental testing to understand the impact of different design choices. Be transparent. Platforms should make their work on issues of discrimination transparent and open up lines... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service
  • 13 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How to Spot a Liar

researchers recruited 104 participants to play the ultimatum game, a popular tool among experimental economists. In the traditional version of the game, one player (the allocator) receives a sum of money and proposes how to divvy it up... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

in the context of health programs and policies in developing nations. But her findings yield lessons that apply to almost everyone. For instance, in a recent study in Lusaka, Zambia, Ashraf and her colleagues found that providing women with access to long-term birth... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

Network Methods to Map Product Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of technical systems and demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

participants pursued, resulting in greater individual and collective experimentation and greater dispersion of performance. We discuss the implications of such changes to the ongoing theory, evidence, and policy considerations with... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

reason that the issue of trust arises is that these individuals are expected to exercise judgment—based on specialized knowledge and methods of analysis that they alone are thought to possess—in areas in which their decisions affect the... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

outside facilitators, can help keep the process productive. Next, skills for managing a group process of analyzing a failure with a spirit of inquiry and sufficient understanding of the scientific method are essential inputs to learning... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

heightened uncertainty? While we are still far from knowing what constitutes a “best practice,” there is already a great deal of experimentation emerging globally. To provide an early report of these emerging approaches, over the past... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System

specification, it is establishing a hypothesis that is then tested through action. This approach — the scientific method—is not imposed on workers, it's ingrained in them. And it stimulates them to engage in the kind of experimentation... View Details
Keywords: by H. Kent Bowen & Steven Spear; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

empirical methods in permitting strong conclusions. Finally, we offer several observations on the implications of certain analyses in the paper. Overall, the authors are to be applauded for their efforts to maintain a high standard in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

behavioral change, does it change other elements of what you're doing as well?" A Series Of Experiments As their working paper explains, the researchers combined empirical and experimental methods to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the bounds within which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

behavior that have not been considered in previous research. First, customers who monitor product prices after purchase may initiate opportunistic returns because of price drops. Second, customers who anticipate a future return may strategically choose a payment View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

into consumer psychology. To reach this goal, we first briefly outline several methods that are part of the consumer neuroscience toolkit and how they are currently used. We then provide an overview of the research that has laid the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

areas that exist in scientific discoveries, John says. These gray areas are necessary for scientific experimentation because if researchers didn't have the freedom to deviate from the norm and try different ways of doing things, they... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

mode of governance in the American economy: business schools became essential sites for the development of tools and methods for the management of the new large, diversified conglomerates (input-output approaches, linear programming,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

organization, as opposed to the characteristics of single plants. Rather than limiting the responses with multiple choice or yes/no questions, the interviewers kept the questions open-ended to get a complete picture of the actual practices adopted in the organization.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France, conducted with French professors Céline Braconnier and Jean-Yves Dormagen, the researchers examined the difficulties citizens had in registering to vote in the French presidential... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

period. Stock indexes can transform longstanding behavior via nonpecuniary channels. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Machine Learning and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence on Productivity... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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