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- 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
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
course, “such reports to be graded not only in substance but also on English,” HBS professor Melvin Copeland later wrote. Four-fifths of the students promptly failed. Thus began decades of experimentation and modification, with decidedly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation What does it take to truly change the world? Hirotaka Takeuchi shares the practices that help leading companies turn knowledge into lasting breakthroughs. Experimentation Works: The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
designing focused experiments to test hypotheses in a capital-efficient fashion in order to achieve product-market fit. But ICOs substantially limit the benefits associated with such staged experimentation for three reasons. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
outside directors with more expertise and experience. Also, busy directors are less likely to serve on multiple committees, possibly to avoid being overloaded. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51853 Cost of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
experimenter who had made them wait, or not interrupting at all. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44857 Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital By: Wang, Charles C.Y.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
knowledge for care and the way it is applied in practice to patient health problems. These changes include increasing knowledge specificity and the standardized sequential care processes this has allowed; the experimental nature of some... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
understand why experimental subjects might begin negotiations anticipating "fair" bargains. The model also explains why some parties may have incentives to deliberately write incomplete contracts which cannot be enforced in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
using original experimental as well as field data from the city of Boston, Massachusetts, show that revealing the “submerged state”—ensuring that citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs—enhances both perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
online information systems can be much better than the real-world alternatives than they replace," Edelman says. "But they can also be much worse. The burden is on us, as system designers, to get it right." Note to readers: Edelman and Luca are interested in conducting... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
with anger when others show themselves not to be minimally altruistic. With heterogeneous agents, this can account for the experimental results of ultimatum and dictator games. Moreover, it can account for the surprisingly large fraction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
Bulletin coverage of technology centered on areas such as aviation, energy, and automation. A 1928 article on radio, for example, noted that "with the exception of aviation, no other industry has so swiftly passed from the stage of obscurity and of View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
into new ventures that demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of experimentation by investors. Investors respond to financing risk―a forecast of limited future funding―by modifying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
http://hbr.org/product/indispensable-when-leaders-really-matter/an/11129-HBK-ENG Unconscious Thought Reduces Intrusion Development: A Replication and Extension Authors:Julie Krans, Dorte Janecko, and Maarten W. Bos Publication:Journal of Behavior Therapy and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
to move into unknown territory. This is the very opposite of the drive to defend territory and status. Both of these drives, likewise, can go to extremes. On the one hand, an individual or organization could become so intoxicated with View Details
Keywords: All Industries