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  • 16 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

they receive a $10 off coupon. This finding has important implications for economic models of life-cycle consumption, as well as the models marketers use to estimate the true costs of coupon offers. Another area of research that Todd is... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 24 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

elected a fellow by the National Association of Business Economics alongside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke—stresses that highlighting the race of a business owner has to be handled... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage
  • 16 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

health, career—that an industry is evolving around motivating people to be smarter about their choices. The problem: solutions created by these researchers and other behavioral scientists, such as incentives to remind health care shoppers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail
  • 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
  • 08 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates

Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein
  • 18 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

the satire publication The Onion headlined, "Woman A Leading Authority On What Shouldn't Be In Poor People's Grocery Carts." This study's results could have implications for everything from social and economic policymaking to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • July 2014
  • Article

Smart Money? The Effect of Education on Financial Outcomes

By: Shawn A. Cole, Anna Paulson and Gauri Kartini Shastry
Household financial decisions are important for household welfare, economic growth and financial stability. Yet, our understanding of the determinants of financial decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Investment; Decisions; Behavior; Financial Condition
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  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

investigated the influence of outcome information on ethical judgment. Participants read a series of vignettes describing ethically-questionable behaviors. We manipulated whether those behaviors were followed by a negative or positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods

By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon
We use a dataset containing daily prices for thousands of matched retail products in nine countries to study tradable-goods real exchange rates. Prices were collected from the websites of large multi-channel retailers and then carefully matched into narrowly-defined... View Details
Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; Online Prices; Real Exchange Rate; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Internet and the Web
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  • March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Hometown Foods: Changing Price amid Inflation

By: Julian De Freitas, Jeremy Yang and Das Narayandas
During the early part of the 2021 Covid-19 pandemic, Hometown Foods, a large seller of flour-based products, thrived as consumers hoarded baked goods and took up baking to pass the time and find comfort. Then, amid growing shortages in commodities, a vaccine arrived,... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Consumer Behavior; Supply Chain; Inflation and Deflation; Spending; Price Bubble; Price; Volatility; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We hypothesize first, that prior industry experience shapes a set of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm behavior; second, that firms will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

Summing Up Do Managers Take Trust for Granted? Trust is a big issue these days judging from the volume of responses to this month's column. Its importance in management is agreed on. There is a long list of behaviors that can damage it.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

Along with colleagues Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, and John Van Reenen, London School of Economics, Sadun challenges this view in a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Management as a Technology? They argue... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?

boost his or her motivation. It does—under certain conditions. The evolving field of behavioral economics is challenging the assumption that more money inevitably leads to increased effort. In a recent field... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy the divergent needs of different types of customers. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

value-creating contingencies and risk-sharing provisions to the contract? Can the contract cope not only with economic issues but also with the egos involved? These are but a few of the many common negotiating errors we see in practice.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

Soviet Union fought in the shadow of the capitalist-communist clash. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49811 forthcoming Journal of Public Economics Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

  PublicationsThe Strategic Use of Brand Biographies Authors:Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, and Juliet Schor Publication:Research in Consumer Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract We introduce the concept of a brand biography to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Unintended Consequences of Fundraising Tactics

Charity fundraisers use a variety of methods to increase donations, with three of the most common being matching funds, seed money, and thank you gifts. Field experiments have shown that matching funds (Eckel and Grossman, 2008) and seed money (List and Lucking-Reiley,... View Details

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