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Chengwei Liu @ChengweiLiu

I create and diffuse cool ideas for a living

Joined June 2012
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Paul Stillman@pestillman
2 Aug 2023
Francesca Gino's $25 Million lawsuit against data colada and Harvard storage.courtlistener.com/re…

Complaint – #1 in Gino v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (D. Mass., 1:23-cv-11775) –...

COMPLAINT against Leif Nelson, The Harvard Corporation, Joseph Simmons, Harvard University, John Does 1-10, Srikant Datar, Uri Simonsohn Filing fee: $ 402, receipt number AMADC-9975221 (Fee Status:...

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Jose Arrieta@arrieta_jp
30 Jun 2023
Behavioral science implies looking at what others do. Yet, behavioral strategy should be all about trying to use that baseline to our advantage. But how? Today, @ChengweiLiu shows us how underdogs and contrarians use arbitrage to outmaneuver their competition. #CSOLAcademy
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"The more some luck factors are unfairly legitimized, the more hidden gems are preserved for the better informed." hbr.org/2022/07/the-case-for…

The Case for Investing in Underdogs

Investors often see a company’s initial success as evidence of superior capabilities. This article suggests that in many cases initial success is down to luck or circumstances beyond the company’s...

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I love the picture HBR editors chosen for my article on "How to Be a Smart Contrarian"! PS. I put my strategy prof. hat on—the word "luck" does not appear once in this article hbr.org/2021/09/how-to-be-a-…

How to Be a Smart Contrarian

There are four traps that incumbent innovators often fall into. First, their managers are usually trapped in a dominant logic on which they base decisions and miss innovation opportunitoes that come...

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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Luck When It Comes to Success in Business hbr.org/2021/06/dont-underes…

Don’t Underestimate the Power of Luck When It Comes to Success in Business

Managers are very prone to both benchmarking and stereotyping. These practices lead them into underestimating the power of luck, so that they often attribute success to capabilities and failure to...

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Life is like a drama. To jab or not to jab, that's the question. But it seems William Shakespeare has given us an answer...
Life is a like a drama. To jab or not to jab, that's the question. #shakespeare #coronarivus #vaccination lnkd.in/dA-99jK
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Biden trumped [ ] (I never enjoyed foxnews until this moment) lnkd.in/dU_Pb3e
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26 Aug 2020
Watch @ChengweiLiu presentation of "Should We Attribute Exceptional Success to Skill or to Luck" co-authored with J. Denrell and @HenrichGreve discussion during last week's E&S Research Seminar Series on YouTube now! ow.ly/Wrpq50B54gV
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My op-ed at FT: Moneyball was never about data analytics as many assumed, but about taking advantage of other's misattribution of luck. ft.com/content/5f0afa98-4ce3…

MBA masterclass: when strategy is a matter of luck

With a little behavioural knowhow, smart managers can profit from others’ irrational biases

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Huge success in business is largely based on luck – new research theconversation.com/huge-suc… via @ConversationUK

Huge success in business is largely based on luck – new research

Ignore business books which promise to reveal the secret formula of success – usually it’s down to luck.

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My theory of taming luck... youtube.com/watch?time_conti…

Luck – A key idea for business and society | ESMT Berlin

Want to learn how to identify and quantify luck? Listen as Professo...

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The business of luck traffic.libsyn.com/secure/fo…

The business of luck

Chengwei Liu joined ESMT Berlin as an associate professor of strategy and behavioral science in the summer of 2019, coming from Warwick Business School. He has also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and...

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Three Lessons from Don Quixote for Strategic Leaders | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/blog/dec…
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Do not mistake identity diversity for cognitive diversity when searching for performance bonus from assembling a diverse team lnkd.in/dvsZ_2K

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CroweGlobal@CroweGlobal
27 Oct 2019
Identity diversity and cognitive diversity are not the same thing. What type of #diversity is your organisation promoting? #theartofsmart bit.ly/ArtofSmart @ChengweiLiu @esmtberlin
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Solving the Brexit Deadlock by Lottery | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/blog/dec…
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My first public talk on how to quantify the impact of luck using "not-quite-small" data (6m obs, 70 years) goes to...wait-for-it... Manchester! Summary: we knew the impact of luck on performances is seriously underestimated by humans and my study shows how serious it is...
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Want to know the secret of enhancing your prospect of winning a fair lottery? See this article based on my latest research on luck. wbs.ac.uk/news/how-to-exploi…
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