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- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
of 13 and 14 pounds respectively after four months, compared to only 4 pounds in the first group. Moreover, about half of the participants in each of the two incentive groups met their target goal of 16 pounds, compared to only 10 percent of the View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
for companies to explain their rationale for the limitations they place on computer usage. Control access to your systems. You don't allow just anyone off the street to wander in and use your company's fax machines or sit in on a strategy...
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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in standard configurations and in modified versions with clearer labels identifying search engine advertisements. In particular, for a random subset of users, we change...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
2011, all 1,200 global Partners of McKinsey & Co. gathered at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center near Washington, DC for their annual Partners' conference. The atmosphere was tense as Partners, in addition to their normal agenda, discussed the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
evidence. This paper analyzes the role of third-party information for VAT enforcement through two randomized experiments among over 400,000 Chilean firms. Announcing additional monitoring has less impact on transactions that are subject...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. An Evolutionary Approach to Financial History Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Cold Spring Harbor...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
impact on their energy-conserving behaviors. Yates and Laskey redesigned the home energy bill to include normative messaging, including feedback on how consumers' energy usage compares to their neighbors' usage. Through early trials of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
2016 Random House The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change By: Anand, Bharat Abstract—Companies everywhere face two major challenges today: getting noticed and getting paid. To confront these obstacles, I examine a range...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
After a first year of trial rollout in Israel, CEO Lihi Segal and her team are devising a global go-to-market plan for the firm. The team is considering several target markets, ranging from people with diabetes to professional athletes,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
which a time-stamped sensor is embedded. We randomize distribution of these soap dispensers as well as provision of monitoring (feedback reports) or monitoring and incentives for daily handwashing. Relative to a View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates, from canvassers supporting the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
propensity score matched samples. We find significant heterogeneity in corporate disclosure responses across those four countries. Relative to propensity score matched control firms, treated firms in China and South Africa increased...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export crops, conducted a randomized trial to evaluate its...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
controlling for investment size, stage, and industry. Geographic distance and technological inexperience by the VC increase the probability the investment is taken up by a partner and not the VC. This work contributes to an emerging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
own childhood leads people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the experimenter with a supplementary task than were participants in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
the digital music industry. Through its iPod line of portable digital music devices and its iTunes Music Store, Apple controlled more than half of the market for both music player hardware and online music sales. But the evolving ability...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
trials at Boston Children’s Hospital. As the founders prepare to bring their new medical device to market, they struggle with two key decisions: Should Luminopia create its own salesforce to sell its product or should it outsource? And...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
causes of the gender gap in patenting among life scientists. Our regressions on a random sample of 4,227 life scientists over a 30-year period show that women faculty members patent at about 40% of the rate of men. We found that the...
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Sean Silverthorne