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- Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3721 95 comments
- Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf] https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/opre.50.1.48.17791 10 comments
- Making songs available for user-generated content on Youtube stimulates demand on streaming services like Spotify – but only if the artists are relatively unknown. With hit releases by famous artists, cannibalization occurs, turning the overall revenue effect negative. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mksc.2022.0080 3 comments science
- A new study reviews COVID 19 vaccine mandates for employees in elderly care homes. It found that the mandate was successful in reducing the percentage of unvaccinated workers, but found no evidence it reduced COVID deaths among residents. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4832 49 comments science
- How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4715 10 comments economics
- Restrictions on high-skilled immigration lead to greater offshoring. For every H-1B visa rejection, companies hire 0.4 employees abroad. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4715 24 comments science
- [Experiment] The impact of political polarization: Ingroup-love occurs in the perceptional domain (how close one feels toward others), whereas outgroup-hate occurs in the behavioral domain (how one helps/harms/cooperates with others). Interventions improve prosociality but do not reduce polarization https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4701 3 comments science
- Even chess experts perform worse when air quality is lower, suggesting a negative effect on cognition https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4643 9 comments science
- Optimal Sequencing in Single-Player Video Games: Practical guidance for game designers on how to match single-player game design to the relationship between reward and difficulty inherent in the game’s mechanics. Implications extend to other similar interactive services, like children's summer camps https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4665 3 comments science
- The stat "Expected Points" was first introduced in a 1970 research paper by Virgil Carter, Bengals starting QB at the time, and Robert Machol, a professor at Northwestern https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/opre.19.2.541 12 comments nfl
- Good middle managers matter a lot for a company's success, a study of auto assembly plants shows. Replacing a bottom quartile plant manager with a top quartile manager decreases the hours needed to build a car by 30%. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4427 424 comments science
- INSEAD recently published a paper finding that " firms with female founders who received funding from female rather than male VCs are two times less likely to raise additional financing." https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/orsc.2022.1594 14 comments venturecapital
- People often benefit from advice—when they encounter advice that disagrees with their initial opinion. But receiving advice that agrees with their initial opinion can exacerbate overconfidence. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2021.3987 5 comments science
- Peer awards motivate creative content, study on reddit finds. Receiving the reddit Gold Award induced recipients to make longer, more frequent posts and that these effects were particularly pronounced among newer community members. Awards also led to more creative content. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4040 7 comments science
- Study shows that bank loans to firms run by CEOs who fly private jets as a hobby tend to incur a higher cost of debt, as banks perceive such firms as having a higher default risk. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.2021.1443 7 comments science
- Many people believe a $299 monthly auto loan payment is significantly less than a $300. A new study suggests this "left digit bias" leads to a $33 increase in average payment per loan. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3923 109 comments science
- Oregon's prohibition on noncompete agreements (NCAs) for low-wage workers led to higher wages for low-wage workers, possibly by as much as 21%. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3918 158 comments science
- Taxi drivers take passengers on longer routes from airports than Uber drivers by an average of 8%, with nonlocal passengers on airport routes experiencing even longer routing. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3721 232 comments science
- Startup entrepreneurs who were taught to think like scientists (rather than taught to follow their business intuition) perform better, are more likely to pivot to a different idea, and are not more likely to drop out (relative to the control group) in the early stages of the startup https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3249 29 comments science
- Services like Craigslist allow for buyers and sellers in local markets for used goods to connect more easily, potentially diverting waste from landfills. Results show that Craigslist moving into a locality leads to a 2%-6% reduction in municipal solid waste, all else equal. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/mnsc.2017.2963 3 comments science
- The magic of movies not tied to using latest technology according to new research. A new study found that employing the latest technology doesn't always ensure creative success for a film. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.2017.1141 8 comments science