Latest Research about Strategies for Innovating
Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs With Surrogates: When Should We Bother?
In this paper, we propose combining data from both surrogate and true outcomes to improve decision-making within a late-phase clinical trial. Read More
Collaborative Experience, Collaborative Performance and Subsequent Independent Operations: Evidence From the Global Aircraft Manufacturing Industry
This study examines the extent to which firms that are collaborating with other firms in a particular area of business subsequently change modes of governance and undertake independent activities in the same area of business. Read More
The Corporate Parenting Effect, Revisited
This paper investigates the cor-porate parenting advantage, the extent to which corporate parents improve the performance of theirsubsidiaries. Read More
Learning Best Practices: Can Machine Learning Improve Human Decision-Making?
The goal of our paper is to study whether machine learning can be used to infer tips that can help workers learn to make better decisions. Read More
Understanding the Relationship between Divestitures and Innovation
Few studies have examined the impact of divestitures on the innovation performance of firms. In particular, little attention has been paid into how the divestiture of firms’ non-core businesses could influence the innovation outcomes of their core businesses. Read More
Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Commercialization of Academic Science: Evidence From “Twin” Discoveries
We construct a sample of approximately 20,000 “twin” scientific articles, which allows us to hold constant differences in the nature of the advance and more precisely examine characteristics that predict startup commercialization. Read More
Social Network Design for Inducing Effort
We study how to optimally structure such consumer communities when the objective is to maximize the total or average amount of effort expended. Read More
Experimentation and Appropriability in Early-Stage Ventures: Evidence from the U.S. Software Industry
This study examines the tension between learning and appropriability in the experimentation process of early-stage ventures. I build a stylized model to argue that, when formal intellectual property is weak, the learning benefit of experimentation may be offset by its imitation risk. Read More
Man vs. Machine: When Is Automation Inferior to Human Labor?
Studying factors that influence adoption of new products and technologies lies at the heart of marketing. In this paper, we study a manager’s decision to adopt automation for a production process. Read More
Architectural Search and Innovation
Product innovation can result from the novel design and combination of product components as well as from changing the underlying product architecture, that is, the way components interact with each other. Read More