John List on the Business of Government Hour “What is the Voltage Effect? Why do some ideas fail while others change the world? What are the five hurdles one must clear to ensure the vitality of an idea? Why should policymakers move from evidence-based policy to...
Next Big Idea Club – The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale “John List is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. He is also the Chief Economist at Lyft, and Co-Director of various research centers around the...
‘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...
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...
