Incentive Design Failures Explained
Analyze incentive failures—real cases where reward systems created perverse behavior, gaming, and outcomes opposite to intent.
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Analyze incentive failures—real cases where reward systems created perverse behavior, gaming, and outcomes opposite to intent.
Startup failure patterns: Quibi spent $1.75B on wrong mobile hypothesis. Juicero raised $120M for $700 juicer when bags squeezed by hand worked fine.
Windows 8 removed Start button, alienating users. New Coke failed despite testing. Clippy annoyed rather than helped users.
UK hospitals held patients in ambulances to meet four-hour emergency room targets. Teaching to test scores narrowed education focus.
Wells Fargo created fake accounts driven by sales quotas. Volkswagen cheated emissions tests. Incentives drove fraud when unchecked by oversight.
Kodak invented digital cameras but buried the technology fearing cannibalization. Nokia dismissed smartphones. Blockbuster rejected streaming.
Healthcare wrong-site surgery from unverified assumptions. Aviation crashes from unclear handoffs. Business projects fail when requirements are misunderstood.