New research by Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, and Felix Eggers uses massive online choice experiments to measure the value digital goods and services create.
Field-study data shows that African-Americans wait longer to get rides and suffer more ride cancellations once drivers determine they’re black.
In this live web-based simulation, participants play the role of senior management at a video game hardware platform producer, such as Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft. Built around a companion case study describing the launch of Sony’s PlayStation 3, the simulation explores the dynamics of competition ...
The research team provided one proof-of-concept application: accurate detection of early-stage lung cancer.
Hamilton’s rule has been observed in many has been observed in many animal species, but it had yet to be tested in financial decision-making contexts.
Set in 2009, and based on interviews with and publications by MIT Sloan Professors Simon Johnson and Andrew Lo, this note describes the “why” and “how” behind the global financial crisis that hit in 2008 as well as the short-term and long-range solutions being publicly advocated by Johnson and Lo.
In this live, web-based simulation, participants play the role of the founder of a new startup company in the exciting and competitive clean tech sector. Can you develop your technology into a successful company? Each quarter you must set prices, decide how many engineers and sales people to hire, a...
Fishbanks is a multiplayer web-based simulation in which participants play the role of fishers and seek to maximize their net worth as they compete against other players and deal with variations in fish stocks and their catch. Participants buy, sell, and build ships; decide where to fish; and negoti...
The Climate Action Simulation is a group role playing simulation where participants test out a mix of policies and strategies that could address climate change. In a large group setting, participants play business, civil society, and government leaders representing different sectors that have conven...
The World Climate Simulation is a group role playing simulation of the international climate change negotiations. This exercise provides participants the chance to explore the risks of climate change and the challenges of negotiating international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions....
