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    The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World

    In this book, Michael Luca and Max Bazerman explain the importance of experiments for decision making in a data-driven world. Luca and Bazerman describe the central role experiments play in the tech sector, drawing lessons and best practices from the experiences of... View Details

    • 29 Oct 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

    conversant in these issues, Luca says. The advent of digital economists is unlikely to kill collaborations between academia and tech companies. By working with academic... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education
    • 24 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

    from Firm-Level Surveys, was conducted by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Zoe Cullen and Associate Professors Michael Luca View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 05 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

    company. Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract— Collaborating with Yelp View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 24 Jul 2019
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

    choices are presented—can encourage people to change their behavior in pursuit of policy goals, says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 08 Aug 2013
    • News

    Study finds online ratings vulnerable to bias

    • 22 Jan 2015
    • News

    Food Safety in Numbers

    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Designing Online Marketplaces: Trust and Reputation Mechanisms

    By: Michael Luca
    Online marketplaces have proliferated over the past decade, creating new markets where none existed. By reducing transaction costs, online marketplaces facilitate transactions that otherwise would not have occurred and enable easier entry of small sellers. One central... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; E-commerce; Market Design
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    Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence

    By: Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
    Dominant platform businesses often develop products in adjacent markets to complement their core business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer... View Details
    Keywords: Tying; Platform Strategy; Google; Product; Quality; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Market Entry and Exit
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    Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    His research has received numerous awards, and he is the most cited scholar today in economics and business. While Michael Porter is at the core a scholar, his work has... View Details
    • March 2016 (Revised January 2020)
    • Teaching Note

    Behavioural Insights Team (A) and (B)

    By: Michael Luca and Patrick Rooney
    The Behavioural Insights Team case introduces students to the concept of choice architecture and the value of experimental methods (sometimes called A/B testing) within organizational contexts. The exercise provides an opportunity for students to apply these principles... View Details
    Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Experiments; Choice Architecture; Public Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; United Kingdom
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    • 27 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

    gears up for the coming presidential contest, the results highlight the challenge candidates face each year as they seek to sway voters to their side, says Vincent Pons, the Michael B. Kim Associate... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 03 Jan 2014
    • News

    Supply, Demand, Heart Attacks

    • Web

    Creating Shared Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    framework. CSV Explained Emerging Topics Discover the latest work on Shared Value Measurement and Investment. Read about Emerging Topics Reinventing Capitalism Preview the award-winning 2011 Harvard Business Review article Creating Shared... View Details
    • 17 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

    Backlash. The paper was co-written by University of Virginia Assistant Professor Tami Kim, who was an HBS doctoral student, HBS Assistant Professor Kate Barasz, John, and View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
    • 07 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

    Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 27 Jan 2014
    • News

    Harvard Study Suggests Racial Bias Among Some Airbnb Renters Read more: Airbnb's NYC Renters May Be Racially Biased Says New Study

    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    The Rise of Remote Work: Evidence on Productivity and Preferences from Firm and Worker Surveys

    By: Alexander Bartik, Zoë Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton
    Drawing on surveys of small business owners and employees, we present three main findings about the evolution of remote work after the onset of COVID-19. First, uptake of remote work was abrupt and widespread in jobs suitable for telework according to the task-based... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Remote Work; Health Pandemics; Jobs and Positions; Demographics; Surveys
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    • 30 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54546 Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence By: Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Dec 1999
    • News

    Christensen and Vernon Remembered

    Dean Kim B. Clark called him "a pioneer in turning the classroom into a transformational experience and in preparing leaders for both business and society. An extraordinary... View Details