{"id":434,"date":"2011-09-10T14:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/?p=434"},"modified":"2011-10-20T18:27:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T22:27:42","slug":"karim-lakhani-harvard-univ-oct-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/karim-lakhani-harvard-univ-oct-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 21: Karim Lakhani to speak on &#8220;Fit&#8221;: Field Experiment Evidence on Sorting, Incentives and Creative Worker Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Lakhani,<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor, Technology and Operations Management<\/p>\n<p>Harvard Business School<\/p>\n<p>October 21, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Speakman Hall 200, 1000am \u2013 1130am<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seminar Title : \u201cFit\u201d: Field Experiment Evidence on Sorting, Incentives and Creative Worker Performance<\/p>\n<p>Abstract<\/p>\n<p>We present the results of a 10-day field experiment in which over 500 elite software developers prepared solutions to the same computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two groups with identical skills distributions and exposed to the same competitive institutional setting. The \u201csorted\u201d group was composed of individuals who preferred the competitive regime instead of a team-based outside option. The \u201cunsorted\u201d group had population-average preferences for working in the regime or the outside option. We find this sorting on this basis of institutional preferences doubled effort and the performance of solutions\u2014controlling for skills, monetary incentives and institutional details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/files\/2011\/09\/Boudreau-Lakhani-FIT-SSRN-Working-Paper.pdf\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for a copy of the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karim Lakhani, Assistant Professor, Technology and Operations Management Harvard Business School October 21, 2011 Speakman Hall 200, 1000am \u2013 1130am &nbsp; Seminar Title : \u201cFit\u201d: Field Experiment Evidence on Sorting, Incentives and Creative Worker Performance Abstract We present the results of a 10-day field experiment in which over 500 elite software developers prepared solutions to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}