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2 weeks ago | 
wsj.com | Michael Luca
Within five days of its launch, ChatGPT reached one million users—making it the fastest-growing consumer application at the time. Its immediate appeal highlights how quickly a product can grow when it captures imaginations and fills unmet needs. Click: How to Make What People Want Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster 240 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.
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2 weeks ago | 
wsj.com | Michael Luca
A simple concept in software—a button that would allow the user to register approval or agreement—became a core element of the social media that transformed the internet. Few recent innovations have been as simultaneously celebrated and maligned as the like button.
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2 months ago | 
manager-magazin.de | Michael Luca |Amy C. Edmondson
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Mar 3, 2025 | 
voiceofalexandria.com | Oren Reshef |Abhay Aneja |Michael Luca
Oren Reshef, Washington University in St. Louis; Abhay Aneja, University of California, Berkeley, and Michael Luca, Johns Hopkins University(THE CONVERSATION) Labeling businesses as Black-owned can significantly boost their sales, we found in a recent study. In June 2020, the business-review website Yelp introduced a feature allowing consumers to search for Black-owned restaurants.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
goskagit.com | Oren Reshef |Abhay Aneja |Michael Luca
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
theconversation.com | Oren Reshef |Abhay Aneja |Michael Luca
Labeling businesses as Black-owned can significantly boost their sales, we found in a recent study. In June 2020, the business-review website Yelp introduced a feature allowing consumers to search for Black-owned restaurants. As professors who study digitization, inequality and the economics of technology, we were interested in understanding its effect. So we analyzed more than two years of data from Yelp.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
kdow.biz | Oren Reshef |Abhay Aneja |Michael Luca
Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services developmentStore and/or access information on a deviceYou can choose how your personal data is used.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Michael Luca
About a decade ago, I worked on a project with a large vacuum manufacturer and learned that one way Consumer Reports evaluates vacuums is by taking fur from Maine Coon cats and stomping it on a medium-pile carpet. The more fur the vacuum sucked up, the better. While such batteries of tests are informative, they do not fully capture the real-world challenges of kids’ spaghetti spills or user errors.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Michael Luca
“More like a frat house than a business.” That’s how one employee described the early years at Blizzard Entertainment, the videogame maker behind such hit games as “Warcraft” and “Diablo.” In “Play Nice,” Jason Schreier recounts the dramatic and at times alarming history of Blizzard and reminds us that, like people, companies, too, need to grow up and evolve.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Michael Luca
When Apple Computer first integrated podcasts into its iTunes software in 2005, one of the companies disrupted by the move was a start-up called Odeo. Facing an existential crisis, Odeo desperately needed to pivot; the company’s chief executive asked his team to come up with alternate paths forward. One such idea was for an SMS-based social-networking service. As legend has it, the idea was the brainchild of a 29-year-old Jack Dorsey; the service eventually became Twitter.
