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  • September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology
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  • 22 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle

consultants using AI were 19 percentage points less likely to produce the right answer. “Organizations need an experimental mindset where they implement a methodical test-and-learn approach.” How to tell which tasks fall on which side of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

rather than the level of joy impact viewer retention most. The effect of joy is asymmetric, with higher gains for increases than losses for decreases. Based on these findings, the authors develop representative emotion trajectories to support ad View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49238 Through the Grapevine: Network Effects on the Design of Executive Compensation Contracts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

forces. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1413775 Repetition of Interaction and Learning: An Experimental Analysis Authors:Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

agenda would, in our opinion, undermine the efforts we will recommend in our second and third papers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2592630 Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay By: Hernandez, Pablo, Dylan B. Minor, and Dana Sisak Abstract—We experimentally study ways in which the social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55886 Can Biometric Tracking Improve Healthcare Provision and Data Quality? Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control in India By: Bossuroy, Thomas, Clara... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • March 2015
  • Case

BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
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  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them, rather than anything inherent in their scale. In fact, Creative Construction argues, if used properly, scale can be an asset, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

of the design of crowdfunding platforms can therefore be understood as attempts to deal with attendant "free-rider" problems in motivating contributions. Reviewing institutional features of today's crowdfunding, we clarify that... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

regulation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55884 April 2019 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence By: Blasco,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

the Right Way Authors:Todd Rogers and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (forthcoming) Abstract What happens when speakers try to "dodge" a question they would rather not answer by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research Summaries

Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


Social Capital... View Details

  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

as an imperial power. Publisher's link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9952.html August 2013 American Economic Review Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia By: Ashraf, Nava, Erica Field, and Jean... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

knowledge to solving the problems of individual patients—offer enormous potential to help patients and the U.S. health-care system overall, says HBS senior lecturer Richard M.J. Bohmer, a physician and researcher on the intersection of medical care and management... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

option leads to a fourteen-fold increase in the ex-post licensing rate. Two additional experimental interventions are designed to reduce search costs for (i) price and (ii) product information. Both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

and connection, even among digital-first companies and digital natives. 5. Continuous experimentation and learning In a world where speed matters, digitally mature organizations act even when the appropriate move is ambiguous. They don’t... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-062.pdf 'Fit': Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting, Incentives and Creative Worker Performance Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract We present the results of a 10-day field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

those facts and find a solution, a team of Boston researchers reports. "When it comes to solving problems, connectedness is a double-edged sword," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein, co-author of Facts and Figuring: An View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

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