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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Faculty Q&A LAKHANI: Crowdsourcing isn't just for software anymore—everyone from carmakers to biotechs are using it to solve seemingly intractable problems. Crowdsourcing—it's a relatively new word for the centuries-old approach of opening a challenge to outside...
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- 16 Feb 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Information Avoidance and Image Concerns
- 07 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
The Presentation of Self in the Information Age
- January 2023
- Article
The Dark Side of Machiavellian Rhetoric: Signaling in Reward-Based Crowdfunding Performance
By: Goran Calic, Rene Arseneault and Maryam Ghasemaghaei
In this study, we explore the impact of Machiavellian rhetoric on fundraising within the increasingly important context of online crowdfunding. The “all-or-nothing” funding model used by the world’s largest crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, may be an attractive...
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Calic, Goran, Rene Arseneault, and Maryam Ghasemaghaei. "The Dark Side of Machiavellian Rhetoric: Signaling in Reward-Based Crowdfunding Performance." Journal of Business Ethics 182, no. 3 (January 2023): 875–896.
- 07 Mar 2014
- News
The Importance of Giving Credit
- 06 Mar 2014
- News
Fashioning a Career with Style
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
how it works); illuminates the challenges of bringing billions of dollars in private capital to bear on social problems; identifies smart public policies that promote social innovation; and recommends specific investment opportunities. Global Dexterity: How to Adapt...
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- 31 May 2021
- News
Stop Being So Hard on Yourself
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni Connections
Harvard Business School in Africa & Young Alumni Gatherings 1 Abdu Mukhtar (MBA 2001), Ndidi Nwuneli (MBA 1999), and Hetty Ugboh (GMP 7, 2009) at an alumni reception held at the InterContinental hotel in Lagos, Nigeria in January, cohosted by the HBS Association of...
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- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 12 May 2016
- Webinars: Career
Adding Resilience to Your Career Toolkit
How can we handle adversity in our lives, whether it is the day-to-day stressors we face or major turbulence that hits us periodically? According to Professor Joshua Margolis, it is possible to build resilience by taking charge of how one both thinks about and reacts...
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- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
The price tag is evolving. It wasn't long ago that potential buyers had only to contemplate a single figure on a price tag—Mattress $799. But increasingly consumers are being presented with "partitioned" prices. Look at your monthly cable bill, where you might see a...
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- April 2023
- Article
The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences
By: Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde
Incentivized choice experiments are a key approach to measuring preferences in economics but are also costly. Survey measures are a low-cost alternative but can suffer from additional forms of measurement error due to their hypothetical nature. This paper seeks to...
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Keywords:
Survey Validation;
Experiment;
Preference Measurement;
Surveys;
Economics;
Behavior;
Measurement and Metrics
Falk, Armin, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman, and Uwe Sunde. "The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences." Management Science 69, no. 4 (April 2023): 1935–1950.
- May 2021
- Article
Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure
By: Ginger Zhe Jin, Michael Luca and Daniel Martin
This paper uses laboratory experiments to directly test a central prediction of disclosure theory: that strategic forces can lead those who possess private information to voluntarily provide it. In a simple sender-receiver game, we find that senders disclose favorable...
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Communication Games;
Disclosure;
Unraveling;
Experiments;
Information;
Product;
Quality;
Communication;
Consumer Behavior
Jin, Ginger Zhe, Michael Luca, and Daniel Martin. "Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 13, no. 2 (May 2021): 141–173.
- December 2009
- Article
How to Combat Online Ad Fraud
By: Benjamin Edelman
Online advertisers frequently fall victim to dishonest, tech-savvy publishers. Here's a sampling of common scams with some advice on how to outwit their perpetrators.
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Edelman, Benjamin. "How to Combat Online Ad Fraud." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 12 (December 2009): 24–25.
- October 2002
- Supplement
NerveWire: A Tale of Two Executives
By: Nitin Nohria
A series of five segments that include NerveWire, Inc., A Day in the Life of Malcolm Frank, A Day in the Life of Kirk Arnold, Employee Observations of Malcolm and Kirk, and Malcolm and Kirk Discuss Co-Leadership.
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Nohria, Nitin. "NerveWire: A Tale of Two Executives." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 403-806, October 2002.
- 01 Aug 1979
- Conference Presentation
Organizational Locations as a Link between Structure and Behavior: General Considerations and the Case of Opportunity and Power
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Organizational Locations as a Link between Structure and Behavior: General Considerations and the Case of Opportunity and Power." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August 01, 1979. (Thematic (Invited) Session on Complex Organizations, Boston, August 1979. Also in Developing Organizational and Human Resources in the Turbulent 1980s, edited by D.B. Gutknecht and J. Loorum University Press of America, 1984.)
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States. That experience challenged his...
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Jennifer Mele