07 Sep 2015 Why a Career is Hard if You Don't Change Firm An experiment conducted by Arnaldo Camuffo, Ekaterina Netchaeva and Federica De Stefano highlights the tendency to hire external candidates even if the position requires firm specific human capital
08 Oct 2015 On Social Networks as in an Echo Chamber Piero Stanig helped MSc student Adrian Sordi devise an experiment that highlights the relationship between Internet information sharing and the workings of democracy
05 Oct 2015 Satisfaction vs. Authenticity: When We Prefer Replica Experiences Two experiments conducted by Gulen Sarial Abi demonstrate that, when an original experience is subject to too many restrictions, people can prefer a replica
01 Oct 2015 Let's Hope We Hire a Female. So We Can Pay Her Less An experiment by Profeta, Macmillan and Ferrari shows that gender discrimination in the selection process regards the wage candidates are offered more than the likelihood to be hired
28 Sep 2015 When Need Makes Us More Creative Emanuela Prandelli and Paola Cillo challenged two resource constrained student groups to create a fashion outfit and are comparing their results to those of unconsytrained students
24 Sep 2015 Crystal Balls to Expose Bad Pundits An experiment devised by Ottaviani and Meloso highlights the existence of incentives to cheat for those who want to seem good forecasters