by mheinl | Mar 28, 2022
‘The Voltage Effect’ Review: Do We Have a Winner? The former chief economist at Uber has sound advice for innovators who, after modest success with an idea or product, would ‘go big’ with it. “John List’s ‘The Voltage Effect’ is marketed as a generic...
by mheinl | Mar 22, 2022
Why So Many Clever Pilot Programs Flunk Out at Scale “Small experiments for solving social problems may seem to work, but at least half of them fall apart when they’re expanded to a larger constituency. Costs are the main explanation, although not the only...
by mheinl | Mar 3, 2022
BigThink.com: Three cognitive biases that allow bad ideas to scale “It took a series of ingenious experiments in the 20th century to uncover some of our biggest cognitive biases. In The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale,...
by mheinl | Feb 14, 2022
‘The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great andGreat Ideas Scale’, by John List “If something is worth doing, it is worth doing big. That is the mantra of behavioural economist and author of The Voltage Effect, John List. The innovations that change the...
by mheinl | Feb 10, 2022
Scaling Programs Effectively: Two New Books on Potential Pitfalls and the Tools to Avoid Them By David Evans “Interventions that are effective at scale are the golden nuggets of public policy: valuable, rare, and even apparent winners are often revealed to be...
