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- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
highly successful in their respective fields and at the peak of their careers. This makes their behavior especially perplexing, raising questions about what caused them to lose their way: Why do leaders known for integrity and leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
me when my public radio station uses it. What else do we know about how to positively influence people’s charitable behaviors? Zlatev: The role of self-interest in prosocial behaviors is a really interesting... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
recommendations, and selling pressure following hold recommendations. This "discounting" is even more pronounced when the analyst has an underwriter affiliation. Small traders, instead, follow recommendations literally. They exert View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
PublicationsDriven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership Author:Paul R. Lawrence Publication:Jossey-Bass, forthcoming (2010) Abstract The author applies the four drive theory of human behavior (to acquire, to defend, to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- June 2024
- Article
Inflation with COVID Consumption Baskets
By: Alberto Cavallo
The Covid-19 pandemic led to changes in expenditure patterns that introduced significant bias in the measurement of Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation. Using publicly-available data on card transactions, I updated the official CPI weights and re-calculated inflation... View Details
Keywords: COVID; Consumer Expenditures; CPI; Inflation; Consumer Behavior; Inflation and Deflation; Health Pandemics
Cavallo, Alberto. "Inflation with COVID Consumption Baskets." Special Issue on The Global Economy: Looking Back, Moving Forward, Part II. IMF Economic Review 72, no. 2 (June 2024): 902–917.
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HBS - The year in Review
experienced colleagues. Assistant Professors Anjali M. Bhatt Organizational Behavior Julian De Freitas Marketing Summer R. Jackson Organizational Behavior Jung Koo Kang Accounting & Management Rebecca A.... View Details
- March 2021 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
Philips: Redefining Telehealth
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Alec Petersen, Natalie Kindred and Sara M. McKinley
As one of the world’s largest healthcare companies, Philips sought to reach beyond the walls of the hospital and expand its hospital-to-home program to gain future competitive advantage through technology solutions combining predictive analytics with care delivery. By... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Philips; Visicu; Telemedicine; eICU; Accountable Care Organization; ACO; Bundled Payment; Hospital To Home; Patient Monitoring Devices; Home Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Communication Technology; Quality; Safety; Performance Productivity; Performance Capacity; Performance Efficiency; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Netherlands
Herzlinger, Regina E., Alec Petersen, Natalie Kindred, and Sara M. McKinley. "Philips: Redefining Telehealth." Harvard Business School Case 321-135, March 2021. (Revised January 2022.) (As companion reading for this case, see: Regina E. Herzlinger and Charles Huang. "Note on Bundled Payment in Health Care," HBS Background Note 312-032.)
- October, 2023
- Article
Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants
By: Alecia Cassidy, Robyn C. Meeks and Michale R. Moore
The Great Lakes and their tributaries make up the largest freshwater system on the planet, providing drinking water and recreational value to millions of people. Yet manufacturing plants left a legacy of toxic pollutants in the region, tarnishing it as part of the... View Details
Keywords: Valuation Of Environmental Effects; Housing Demand; Water Pollution; Water Quality; Infrastructure; Pollution; Consumer Behavior
Cassidy, Alecia, Robyn C. Meeks, and Michale R. Moore. "Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants." Journal of Public Economics 226 (October, 2023).
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
differently about their coworkers and their work,” he says. The findings are detailed in the recent paper, Work Group Rituals Enhance the Meaning of Work, published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Norton conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others just as dissimilar, maybe even yours—inform a "moral gray... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Article
Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results
By: Benjamin Edelman and Zhenyu Lai
The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its... View Details
Keywords: Search Engine; Organic Search; Sponsored Search Advertising; User Interface; Channel Substitution; Search Technology; Consumer Behavior; Online Advertising
Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai. "Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 53, no. 6 (December 2016): 881–900. (First posted April 2013.)
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Endless Possibilities
cards on the table. Don’t be shy about lifting the lid on your love language, what you’re looking for in a relationship, and flying your ‘green flags,’ or positive traits.” A married mother of two daughters, Iosotaluno doesn’t have a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- March–April 2013
- Article
Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations
By: Tsedal Neeley
How workers experience and express status loss in organizations has received little scholarly attention. I conducted a qualitative study of a French high-tech company that had instituted English as a lingua franca, or common language, as a context for examining this... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Status and Position; Loss; Spoken Communication; Emotions; Attitudes; Behavior; Globalization
Neeley, Tsedal. "Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations." Organization Science 24, no. 2 (March–April 2013): 476–497.
- 05 Jul 2023
- News
GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center
Lootah (GMP 10, 2011), the establishment of a physical space for the club was driven by a commitment to making a positive impact in the GCC region—which includes Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?
an experience kids can relate to. For example, a family could donate to a school lunch program and explain why some children don’t have enough to eat. “Try to make it action-oriented, so the conversation becomes a positive catalyst for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
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What We Can Learn from Five Naturalistic Field Experiments that Failed to Shift Commuter Behaviour
By: Ariella S. Kristal and A.V. Whillans
Across five field experiments with employees of a large organization (n = 68,915), we examined whether standard behavioural interventions (“nudges”) successfully reduced single-occupancy vehicle commutes. In Studies 1 and 2, we sent letters and emails with nudges... View Details
Kristal, Ariella S., and A.V. Whillans. "What We Can Learn from Five Naturalistic Field Experiments That Failed to Shift Commuter Behaviour." Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 2 (February 2020): 169–176. (This article was featured on the cover as the lead article.)
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
advisable or even necessary to invest in a response. In other cases, you may as well save your money, according to the researchers. The study also concluded that even though high-end customers can be fickle, a company that sustains a superior service View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna