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Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-MakingCrowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making   

Hollywood insiders have created "The Black List," which helps surface good but often overlooked scripts. Does the wisdom of the crowd work at the box office? Research by Hong Luo. 
16 Sep 2019  |  Research & Ideas

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Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

by Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan, and Aaron Chatterji
  • 06 SEP 2019
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  • Working Paper Summaries
Is experimentation the right strategy for startups? This analysis of the adoption of A/B testing technology by 35,000 global startups provides evidence that a strategy based on repeated experimentation will improve performance over time. However, the benefits of experimentation vary. Experimentation helps younger startups “fail faster,” while older firms may discover new, high-growth products.

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 JUL 2018
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  • Research & Ideas
In earlier research, Kathleen McGinn and colleagues discovered that adult kids of working moms are high achievers at work. Now it turns out they are happy, too.

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

by Danielle Kost
  • 11 SEP 2019
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  • Research & Ideas
In Germany, drugmakers must prove that a new medication’s benefits merit a higher price than existing drugs. Ariel Dora Stern asks whether "value-based pricing" should become the standard elsewhere.

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 MAY 2017
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  • Research & Ideas
African American and Asian job applicants who mask their race on resumes seem to have better success getting job interviews, according to research by Katherine DeCelles and colleagues.

New Working Papers 

Scholarly papers that describe original research in a narrow field of study.

Using Models to Persuade

by Joshua Schwartzstein and Adi Sunderam
  • 18 SEP 2019

Female Inventors and Inventions

by Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson
  • 18 SEP 2019

Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

by Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan, and Aaron Chatterji
  • 06 SEP 2019

The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market

by Marco Di Maggio, Mark Egan, and Francesco Franzoni
  • 05 SEP 2019

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Best Practices for Considering Contract Workers

Christopher Stanton

Causes and Consequences of Withholding Critical Feedback in Organizations

Ashley Whillans and Chuck Howard

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