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Entscheidungen treffen: Wie Sie Daten korrekt lesen und nutzen

2 months ago | manager-magazin.de | Michael Luca |Amy C. Edmondson

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Identifying brands as Black-owned can pay off for businesses

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.
Identifying brands as Black-owned can pay off for businesses

Feb 27, 2025 | goskagit.com | Oren Reshef |Abhay Aneja |Michael Luca
Identifying brands as Black-owned can pay off for businesses

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.
Identifying brands as Black-owned can pay off for businesses

Feb 27, 2025 | kdow.biz | Oren Reshef |Abhay Aneja |Michael Luca

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Holiday Gift Books: Business

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.
‘Play Nice’ Review: A Blizzard of Controversy

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.
‘Pivot or Die’ Review: The Profit of Change

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.
The Rise of Remote Work Evidence on Productivity and Preferences From Firm and Worker Surveys

Oct 24, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alexander W. Bartik |Zoë Cullen |Ed Glaeser |Michael Luca

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Cosa può andare storto nei processi decisionali data-driven

Oct 1, 2024 | hbritalia.it | Michael Luca |Amy C. Edmondson

IMMAGINATE DI CONDURRE una riunione sulla retribuzione oraria dei dipendenti del magazzino della vostra azienda. Per diversi anni, l’importo è stato aumentato automaticamente di piccole cifre, in modo da tenere il passo con l’inflazione.