One of the main reasons for poor state of education in developing countries is an inability to meet the heterogeneous learning needs of a large student population with constrained educational resources. We provide experimental evidence that computer-generated personalized homework can...

Customers often evaluate products at brick-and-mortar stores to identify their “best fit” product but buy it for a lower price at a competing online retailer. This free-riding behavior by customers is referred to as “showrooming” and we show that this is detrimental to the profits of the...

Public “Beta” launches have become a preferred route of entry into the markets for new software products and web site based services. While beta testing of novel products is nothing new, typically such tests were done by experts within firm boundaries. What makes public beta testing so...